Wei Yi Wins Leon Rapid Event
Sunday, June 14, 2015 at 9:47PM
Dennis Monokroussos in Wei Yi

Scary good, this young Chinese chap. Wei Yi won a small but strong rapid event in Leon. In the semi-finals he beat David Anton Guijarro 2.5-1.5 while Maxime Vachier-Lagrave defeated Ruslan Ponomariov by the same margin, and in the final Wei Yi beat MVL in yet another match to finish with the same score.

Meanwhile, I'm still waiting to see him get a super-tournament invite. He just turned 16 and is rated 2723, ahead of Magnus Carlsen's pace (and everyone else's too) at the same age. Carlsen was invited everywhere at that age, but where is Wei Yi playing? Outside of China, only in opens and rapids, it seems. Not good, but kudos to the organizers in Leon for bringing him in.

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