IMYihan Meng

Meng Yihan attended Lu Xun Primary School in Shaoxing, where he emerged as one of Zhejiang’s leading young chess players. In 2019 he won silver in the world under-ten championship, scoring 8½ points, and later took the boys’ B-group title at China’s national youth elite tournament. He went on to play for Shanghai and received the Chinese league’s newcomer award in 2024. FIDE awarded him the International Master title in 2025, the year he represented China at the Under-16 Olympiad. He helped Shanghai finish third in the 2026 national team championship alongside Xu Yi, Lou Yiping and Gong Sunle. Later that year he finished runner-up in the second selection tournament for China’s men’s national training squad.