Wolves Esports, the esports division of the English soccer membership Wolverhampton Wanderers, has introduced the signing of chess participant Yu Yangyi.
China’s youngest chess grandmaster boasts a powerful historical past of achievements, together with two World Chess Olympiad group titles, two World Workforce Chess Championship titles, and two Chinese language Chess King Match trophies.
Yu, presently ranked twenty eighth on the earth as per Chess.com leaderboard, is seeking to compete below the Wolves Esports banner on the Esports World Cup 2025, set to start in June 2025 in Riyadh.
“Yu Yangyi ranks among the many high gamers on the CCT worldwide leaderboard. We sit up for his efficiency representing Wolves Esports within the Esports World Cup,” Wolves Esports introduced on their official X (Twitter) deal with.
With a concentrate on the Chinese language esports scene, Wolves Esports competes throughout a number of titles, together with Honor of Kings, PUBG Cell and Name of Obligation Cell. The organisation has earned over $13m (~£10m) in event prize cash by securing back-to-back King Professional League Spring championships in 2023 and 2024.
They’ve additionally notably received the CODM World Championship 2023, together with a number of Chinese language CODM Championship titles.
Aside from Wolves Esports, a number of different main organisations have entered aggressive chess.
In line with the CCT rankings, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Magnus Carlsen, and Hikaru Nakamura have already secured direct slots for the Esports World Cup. In the meantime, Yu Yangyi is presently ranked seventh and might want to keep within the high 9 to qualify for the occasion.
