The Ciudad de Leon tournament has been always bet on the young stars. As it happened with Karjakin and Carlsen when both of them were teenagers, Yi Wei, winner in 2014, will play in Leon for the second time. On 1st March 2013 he won his final GM norm at the Reykjavik Open, becoming, at the age of 13 years, 8 months and 23 days, the youngest grandmaster in the world at that time, and the fourth youngest in history. He won the gold medal with China last year at the Chess Olympiad in Tromso.
Other highlights
• Winner of the U-12 Asian Youth Championship 2010.
• Winner of the U-12 World Youth Championship 2010.
• 1st GM norm at the U-20 World Championship 2012 (he was only 12!).
• 2nd GM norm at the Indonesian Open 2012.
• Final GM norm at the Reykjavik Open 2013 with a score of 7½/10, including a victory over Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, finishing 6th.
• Overwhelming performance at the Tromso World Cup 2012, beating Nepomniachi and Shirov, at the age of 13!
• On the November 2013 FIDE rating list, Wei, aged 14 years, four months and 30 days, reached a rating of 2604, thus becoming the youngest player in history to achieve a rating of 2600+.
• Reserve board for China in the Chess Olympiad in Tromsø. He scored 4/5, helping the Chinese team to win the gold medal.
• Winner of the Tata Steel Challengers Group in Wijk aan Zee (The Netherlands) 2015.
• Youngest player ever to achieve a rating of 2700+, at the end of January 2015 in Gibraltar (Tradewise Festival).
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