Yu Yangyi

Tournaments

• 24 October–2 November 2003: World Youth Chess Championship in Halkidiki, Greece. He scored 8½/11 coming equal second
• November 3–14, 2004: World Youth Chess Championship in Heraklio, Crete, Greece. He scored 9/11 coming equal first with Jules Moussard, Raymond Song and Hou Yifan.
• February 2007: Aeroflot Open Group C in Moscow. He scored 7.5/9 coming second
• 4–11 August 2007: Scandinavian Chess Tournament at Täby Park Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden. He scored 6½/9 coming 10th place
• February 2008: Aeroflot Open Group B in Moscow. He scored 7.0/9 coming third
• February 2009: Aeroflot Open Group A2 in Moscow. He scored 5.5/9 coming 20th
• 12–24 May 2009: Asian Chess Championship in Subic, Philippines. He came 3rd place as he scored 6.0/9 with a performance rating of 2700. By doing so he qualified for his first 2009 World Cup in Khanty-Mansisk, Russia. This was his first GM norm
• 25–31 May 2009: 2nd Subic International Open in Subic Bay Free Port. He scored 6.0/9 with a 2653 performance finishing in 9th place This was his second GM norm
• September 4, 2009: 6th Dato Arthur Tan Malaysia Open Chess Championship in Kuala Lumpur. He scored 6½/9
• September 2009: Zhejiang Lishui Xingqiu Open, he came second behind Lê Quang Liêm with 6.5/9.
• October 2009: World Junior Chess Championship in Puerto Madryn, Argentina. He scored 8.5/13 with a 2618 performance. He came 7th place on tiebreak
• November 2009: Chess World Cup, Russia, reached the third round after achieving the biggest upset of the first round - winning 1,5:0,5 against 16th seed Sergei Movsesian, and also upsetting Mateusz Bartel in the second round.
• February 2011: Aeroflot Open, Moscow, Russia. Tied for 4th–10th with Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Gata Kamsky, Rauf Mamedov, Ivan Cheparinov, Denis Khismatullin and Maxim Rodshtein.
• May 2011: came first at Danzhou. He scored 7/9 with a performance rating of 2880.
• September 2013: Overall winner of the 2013 World Junior Chess Championship. He came first with 11/13 with Alexander Ipatov close behind with 10.5/13. Due to winning the World Junior Championship, he automatically qualifies for the Chess World Cup 2015 which is a qualification path to the World Chess Championship 2016.
• March 2014: He competed in the Chinese Chess Championship and finished first on tiebreaks with 7/11 over his fellow countryman Ding Liren 7/11. He scored impressive wins over fellow players Liu Qingnan, Wei Yi and Zeng Chonsheng.
• April 2014: He competed in the Asian Chess Championship and finished overall first 7/9 over Ni Hua, Rustam Kasimdzhanov and Adhiban B. With the win, he won $6,000 US. As of April 2014, he has a classical rating of 2667, a rapid rating of 2668 and a blitz rating of 2753.
• December 2014: Yu won the Qatar Masters scoring 7.5/9, beating former world champion Vladimir Kramnik and top seed Anish Giri.
• June 2015: Yu won the 50th Capablanca Memorial in Havana, Cuba scoring 7/10, beating the top seed Leinier Dominguez twice for a 2860 performance rating.
• December 2015: Yu earned second place in the 2nd edition of the Qatar Masters Open, scoring 7/9, defeating Wesley So in the final round but losing to Magnus Carlsen in the tiebreak.
• August 14, 2019: Yu finished second place in the Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz event with a score of 21.5/36. The second place was tied and shared with Ding Liren and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.

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