Yu Yangyi
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| Born | 8 June 1994 Huangshi, Hubei, China | ||||||||
| Chess career | |||||||||
| Country | China | ||||||||
| Title | Grandmaster (2009) | ||||||||
| FIDE rating | 2717 (March 2026) | ||||||||
| Peak rating | 2765 (September 2018) | ||||||||
| Ranking | No. 23 (March 2026) | ||||||||
| Peak ranking | No. 10 (September 2019) | ||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 余泱漪 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 余泱漪 | ||||||||
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Yu Yangyi (Chinese: 余泱漪; born 8 June 1994) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. He qualified for the Grandmaster title at 14 years, 11 months and 23 days old in 2009. He is a three-time Chinese Chess Champion and the 2014 Asian Chess Champion.
Yu also has two gold medals from the Chess Olympiad in 2014 and 2018 as well as two gold medals from the World Team Chess Championship in 2015 and 2017.
Yu has participated in multiple editions of the Chess World Cup with his best performance coming fourth in 2019.