Grandmaster Wang Hao is the highest rated player from China and one of the best chess players in the world. He is one of only 4 chinese players to ever cross the FIDE 2700 barrier. In this game he requested we cover he was only 18 years old but was already rated 2650. In this “China vs. Russia” tournament, the game open with a Sicilian and ends up with some WILD piece sacrifices. I’m sure you’ll enjoy.

First 3 questions of interview (the rest available on William’s site)

When did you learn chess and who taught you?

When I was 6 years old, I started to learn chess from a local trainer, whose name is Fan. At that time I was planning to learn Chinese chess (Xiangqi), so my parents and I went to the local young center where you can learn some kinds of art and sport. The trainer of Chinese chess wasn’t there and the chess trainer was. He introduced chess to me and suggested that I learn it. So you can say that I play chess only by chance.

When did you begin playing chess tournaments and how did you do?

After learning about 1 year of chess, I played a local young tournament and finished it well, but I have already forgot how did I play, second or first…

When did you begin making legitimate progress in your game and How?



It’s difficult to answer this question as it was so natural. I don’t remember when, but I was quite hard-working and of course, I am just a lazy guy now.

The rest of the interview along with an interactive chess board of the game is available here.



Bonus Game!

This is an old game I did of Wang Hao a while back when I was covering the Russian Team Championships, I figured it’s pretty relevant to the interview so please enjoy.

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