• 24 October–2 November 2003:
World Youth Chess Championship (under-10) in
Halkidiki, Greece. He scored 8½/11 coming equal second • 3–14 November 2004:
World Youth Chess Championship (Under-10) in
Heraklio, Crete, Greece. He scored 9/11 coming equal first with
Jules Moussard,
Raymond Song and
Hou Yifan (the current Women's World Champion). • February 2007:
Aeroflot Open Group C in Moscow. He scored 7.5/9 coming second • 4–11 August 2007: Scandinavian Chess Tournament at Täby Park Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden. He scored 6½/9 coming 10th place • February 2008:
Aeroflot Open Group B in Moscow. He scored 7.0/9 coming third • February 2009:
Aeroflot Open Group A2 (and Blitz Tournament) in Moscow. He scored 5.5/9 coming 20th • 12–24 May 2009:
Asian Chess Championship in Subic, Philippines. He came 3rd place as he scored 6.0/9 with a performance rating of 2700. By doing so he qualified for his first
2009 World Cup in Khanty-Mansisk, Russia. This was his first
GM norm • 25–31 May 2009: 2nd Subic International Open in Subic Bay Free Port. He scored 6.0/9 (+3=6-0) with a 2653 performance finishing in 9th place This was his second
GM norm • 4 September 2009: 6th Dato Arthur Tan Malaysia Open Chess Championship in Kuala Lumpur. He scored 6½/9 • September 2009:
Zhejiang Lishui Xingqiu Open, he came second behind
Lê Quang Liêm with 6.5/9. • October 2009:
World Junior Chess Championship in Puerto Madryn, Argentina. He scored 8.5/13 (+7=3-3) with a 2618 performance. He came 7th place on tiebreak • November 2009:
Chess World Cup, Russia, reached the third round after achieving the biggest upset of the first round – winning 1,5:0,5 against 16th seed
Sergei Movsesian, and also upsetting
Mateusz Bartel in the second round. • February 2011: Aeroflot Open, Moscow, Russia. Tied for 4th–10th with
Rustam Kasimdzhanov,
Gata Kamsky,
Rauf Mamedov,
Ivan Cheparinov,
Denis Khismatullin and
Maxim Rodshtein. • May 2011: came first at
Danzhou. He scored 7/9 (+5=4-0) with a
performance rating of 2880. • September 2013: Overall winner of the 2013
World Junior Chess Championship. He came first with 11/13 (+9=4-0) with Alexander Ipatov close behind with 10.5/13 (+8=5-0). Due to winning the World Junior Championship, he automatically qualifies for the
Chess World Cup 2015 which is a qualification path to the
World Chess Championship 2016. • March 2014: He competed in the Chinese Chess Championship and finished first on tiebreaks with 7/11 (+3=8-0) over his fellow countryman
Ding Liren 7/11 (+4=6-1). He scored impressive wins over fellow players Liu Qingnan, Wei Yi and Zeng Chonsheng. • April 2014: He competed in the Asian Chess Championship and finished overall first 7/9 (+5=4-0) over
Ni Hua,
Rustam Kasimdzhanov and Adhiban B. With the win, he won $6,000 US. • December 2014: Yu won the Qatar Masters scoring 7.5/9 (+6=3-0), beating former world champion
Vladimir Kramnik and top seed
Anish Giri. • June 2015: Yu won the 50th
Capablanca Memorial in
Havana,
Cuba scoring 7/10 (+5=4-1), beating the top seed
Leinier Domínguez twice for a 2860 performance rating. • December 2015: Yu earned second place in the 2nd edition of the Qatar Masters Open, scoring 7/9 (+5-0=4), defeating
Wesley So in the final round but losing to
Magnus Carlsen in the tiebreak. • 14 August 2019: Yu finished second place in the Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz event with a score of 21.5/36. The second place was tied and shared with
Ding Liren and
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. • October 2019: Yu finished fourth in the
Chess World Cup 2019 • April 2021: Yu won the fourth edition of the
Shenzhen Masters with 12 points, one ahead of
Jan-Krzysztof Duda. • October–November 2021: Yu finished fourth in the
FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2021. • February–March 2022: Yu finished 20th in the
FIDE Grand Prix 2022 with three points. • June 2022: Yu won the Summer Chess Classic A tournament in
St. Louis, US with a score of 6.5/9, 1.5 points ahead of
Grigoriy Oparin and
Abhimanyu Mishra. • November 2022: Yu won the Fall Chess Classic A tournament in
St. Louis, US with a score of 6.5/9, half a point ahead of
Vidit Gujrathi. • December 2023: Yu won the Alef Super Stars 2023 tournament in
Sharjah. In the same month, he came third place in the
World Rapid Chess Championship 2023 with a score of 9/13, behind Carlsen and
Vladimir Fedoseev. == References ==