The Chinese Immortal
Wei, Yi against Bruzon Batista, Lazaro · 6th Hainan Danzhou GM · 2015.07.03 · 1–0
The story behind it
Danzhou, 2015: sixteen-year-old Wei Yi plays 22.Rxf7 and drags the black king from f7 to h3 — across the entire board, through White's own camp — before mating it with the last piece it can never take. Hailed at once as the first immortal game of the twenty-first century.
The moments
Click one — the board above jumps there.
The players
in the archive
Wei, Yi
Chinese grandmaster who became the youngest player ever to cross 2700, at fifteen. His sacrificial king hunt against Lazaro Bruzon at Danzhou 2015, played at sixteen, was immediately called the first immortal game of the twenty-first century.
in the archive
Bruzon Batista, Lazaro
Cuban grandmaster, World Junior Champion in 2000 and many-time Cuban national champion, a mainstay of the Capablanca Memorial and one of the strongest Latin American players of his era.
The score
The moves are history's; we checked them against it.
ECO B40 · our PGN header reads Date 2015.07.03
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