Wang Hao (chess player)
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| Full name | Wang Hao | |
| Country |  China |
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| Born | August 4, 1989 Harbin, Heilongjiang, China |
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| Title | Grandmaster (GM) | |
| FIDE rating | 2684 (No. 35 on the April 2008 FIDE ratings list and No. 3 on the April 2008 FIDE ratings list for juniors) |
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| Peak rating | 2684 (April 2008) | |
- This is a Chinese name; the family name is Wang.
Wang Hao (Chinese: 王皓; pinyin: Wáng Hào; born August 4, 1989[1] in Harbin, Heilongjiang) is a Chinese chess grandmaster.
As with Garry Kasparov, Wang Hao became a grandmaster without first gaining an International Master (IM) title. He achieved his first grandmaster norm at the Aeroflot Open (A2 Tournament) in Moscow in February 2005, his second norm at the 2005 Dubai Open and his third at the 2005 2nd Dato Arthur Tan MAS Open.
Wang is third behind Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin in the FIDE Top 20 Junior world rankings [2].
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[edit] Chess career
In 1999, Wang came third in the U-10 Youth World Championship in Oropesa del Mar, Spain. In July 2002 he won the Qingdao Zhongfand Cup. In August 2002 he won gold on the fourth board of the Chinese national team in the U-16 Chess Olympiad in Kuala Lumpur.
In July 2004, being 14 years old, he again won a gold medal with his national team in the U-16 Chess Olympiad in Kozhikode where the result was 8/9 on the first board producing a rating performance of 2577. In the same month he won a youth tournament in Jakutsk.
Wang's first major tournament win was the Dubai Open in April 2005, when he was still untitled and astonishingly finished clear first with 7/9 points (rating performance of 2731), ahead of 53 grandmasters and 30 international masters [3].
In August 2005 Wang won with the brilliant result of 10/11 (two points clear ahead of the rest of the field) in the 2nd IGB Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysia Open in Kuala Lumpur (rating performance of 2843) [4]. In October 2005 he came joint-first in the Beijing Zonal 3.3 tournament, and took the second place after a playoff match.
In February 2007 he won the GACC Tournament at the University of Malaya. In September 2007 he came in second place after Zhang Pengxiang at the Asian Individual Championship in Manila. In October 2007, Wang came third at the World Junior Chess Championship in Yerevan.
In January 2008, at the 15th Asian Team Chess Championship in Visakhapatnam, Wang won an individual gold medal for his performance on board three (5/6). The national team had also won gold overall.[5] In March 2008, he won the 23rd Reykjavik Open on tie-break with 7/9 points (2721 rating performance) [6].
In April 2008, Wang competed at the Russian Team Championships in Dagomys, Sochi for the team 64 (Moscow), where he achieved a score of 8.0/11 (+5=6-0) and a performance rating of 2795.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ 中国国际象棋运动员等级分数据库
- ^ FIDE Online. FIDE Top players - Top 20 Juniors January 2008
- ^ ChessBase.com - Chess News - Sensation: Dubai Open won by Wang Hao
- ^ ChessBase.com - Chess News - Incredible!! Fantastic!! Sensational!!
- ^ OlimpBase :: 15th Asian Team Chess Championship, Visakhapatnam 2008, China
- ^ Skáksamband Íslands - Standings
[edit] External links
- FIDE rating card for Wang Hao
- Wang Hao at ChessGames.com
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