Wen Yang (; born 7 July 1988) is a Chinese
chess
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player. In 2008, he became China's
25th Grandmaster. He achieved the
norm
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s required for the grandmaster title at the 2006
World Junior Chess Championship
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The idea was the brainchild of William Rits ...
and the 2007
Asian Chess Championship The Asian Chess Championship is a chess tournament open to all players from Asian chess federations ( FIDE zones from 3.1 to 3.7). It's held with the Swiss system and consists in two divisions, Open and Women's, the latter of which is reserved to f ...
.
He has competed in two
FIDE World Cup
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s. In
2007, Wen Yang was defeated ½-1½ by
Zoltán Almási
Zoltán Almási (born August 29, 1976) is a Hungarian chess player. Awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1993, he is a nine-time Hungarian champion, winning in 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2019.
Almási has compete ...
in the first round and as a result was eliminated from the tournament. In the
2015 edition, he knocked out
Igor Kovalenko
Igor Viktorovich Kovalenko (russian: Игорь Викторович Коваленко; lv, Igors Kovaļenko; born 29 December 1988, Novomoskovsk) is a Ukrainian chess player who played for Latvia between 2013 and 2021 and holds the FIDE titl ...
in the inaugural round to reach the second, where he lost to
Peter Leko. In 2018 Wen won the
Chinese Chess Championship
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Winners
:
Women's Crosstables
:
Average Elo: 2324 Cat: 3
m = 6. ...
edging out
Bai Jinshi on tiebreak score, after both players finished on 7½/11 points.
Wen was a member of the gold medal-winning Chinese team in the
World Team Chess Championship
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of 2017. In 2012 he played for China's second team in the
Asian Team Chess Championship. In 2008 Wen Yang was a member of the silver medal-winning team Qi Yuan Club in the 1st Asian Club Cup in
Al Ain. Wen plays for
Shandong in the
China Chess League
The China Chess League (CCL) () is a Chinese professional league for chess clubs. The league is organized by the Chinese Chess Association. It is sponsored by Youngor Group and was sponsored by the Shandongbr>Torch Real Estate Group(2005–2009 ...
(CCL).
[http://ccl.sports.cn/ ]
References
External links
Wen Yangchess games at 365Chess.com
*
team chess record at Olimpbase.org
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1988 births
Living people
Chess grandmasters
Chess players from Shandong