Jiangsu Grand master Wei Yi won the men's individual chess gold medal at the Asian Games

                                               Jiangsu Grand master Wei Yi won the men's individual chess gold medal at the Asian Games

A total of 34 players from 19 countries and regions took part in the men's individual chess final of the Hangzhou Asian Games on Sept 27 at the Chi Chi Building in Hangzhou. Wei Yi, the grandmaster of Jiangsu Province, topped the list with 7-1 and 1-7.5 points to win the men's individual chess title and add another gold medal to the Chinese delegation.

Competition is particularly fierce in the men's individual chess event, which has nine rounds. For the first four rounds, Wei and Uzbekistan's Noirbek Abdusatorov have been tied for the top spot. The fifth round of two people meet, after more than 70 rounds of the great war, Wei Yi lost. Wei then rallied and won the sixth round against another Uzbek player, Jawahir Sindarov. In the seventh round, he continued to beat the Indian master Vidit, with a score of 5.5 points to return to the top.

In the eighth round of the match, Wei Yi faced Vietnamese chess player Le Jun Minh, the opening opponent was surprised out of the rare move, Wei Yi calmly responded, played steadily, and finally won the game in the end game, with a 0.5 point advantage into the final round. In the final round, Wei Yi played against Mongolian player Bilegon Sumia, and finally won the men's individual chess championship.

It is reported that Wei Yi was born in 1999 in Yancheng, Jiangsu province, began to learn chess at the age of 6, entered the provincial team at the age of 11, and then competed in the national Grade A competition, in October 2010 won the world junior Championship, which is the first world championship in his career. He was selected to the national team at the age of 12. In 2013, he created the record of the youngest Chinese chess player promoted to a chess grandmaster, and broke the record of the youngest world player with a ranking of 2600 in the same year. On August 14, 2014, in the 41st World Chess Olympiad held in Norway, the 15-year-old Wei Yi helped the Chinese men's team beat the Polish team 3-1, with an undefeated record of 8 wins and 3 draws in 11 rounds, creating the history of the first Asian country to win the Olympic men's team championship, breaking the 87-year monopoly of Europe and the United States on the Olympic Games! In 2015, he helped China win the championship of the 10th World Chess Team Championship and successfully defended the championship in 2017. In October 2018, Wei Yi represented the national team again to participate in the 43rd World Chess Olympiad and won the championship again.

On September 29, Wei Yi will also participate in the Asian Games men's team chess competition, looking forward to his new achievements.