# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wei-yi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:44:45.603Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wei-yi"
name: "Wei Yi"
slug: "wei-yi"
description: "Wei Yi is a Chinese chess grandmaster. Wei became a grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 8 months and 23 days, the 11th youngest in history. He was the youngest player ever to reach a rating of 2700, accomplishing this feat at age 15. Wei represents the Jiangsu club in the China Chess League and is a three-time Chinese Chess Champion, 2018 Asian Chess Champion and 2022 Asian Games Men's individual rapid champion. He won the Tata Steel Masters in 2024."
tagline: "Chinese chess player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wei_Yi_in_2025_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
birthDate: "1999-06-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.62
  momentum:             0.879120879120879
  historical:           21.06214133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "وى يى"
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    title: "Wei Yi"
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    title: "Wei Yi"
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    title: "Wei Yi"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump