FM Wesley Wang

Full name

Wesley Wang

Born

1/1/2004 (age 21)‎

Place of birth

Federation

United States

Rating

Bio

FM Wesley Wang is an American FIDE Master and filmmaker. His 2024 short film titled "nothing, except everything." went viral and was picked up by the TriStar Pictures studio and Darren Aronofsky‘s production company, Protozoa, for a feature length film.

Wang's peak FIDE rating is 2341. He taught chess lessons in order to pay for the production of some of his earlier short films.

Most Played Openings

White Pieces

Sicilian Defense: Canal Attack (5 games)

Giuoco Piano Game: Main Line, Giuoco Pianissimo Variation (4 games)

Sicilian Defense: Open, Classical, Richter-Rauzer Variation (3 games)

Caro-Kann Defense: Advance, Short Variation with 4.Nf3 (3 games)

Sicilian Defense: Taimanov, Bastrikov Variation (2 games)

Black Pieces

Sicilian Defense: Kan, Modern, Polugaevsky Variation (3 games)

Benko Gambit Fully-Accepted (3 games)

Ruy López Opening: Morphy Defense, Anti-Marshall Variation (3 games)

Indian Game (2 games)

Closed Sicilian Defense: Korchnoi Defense (2 games)

Games

Players	Result	Moves	Year
Wesley Wang (2298) Raja Harshit (2466)	1-0	67	2023
Wesley Wang (2298) Raja Harshit (2466)	1-0	67	2023
Wesley Wang (2304) Abhimanyu Mishra (2195)	1-0	37	2019
Wesley Wang (2318) Joshua Daniel Ruiz Castillo (2460)	0-1	64	2019
Wesley Wang (2318) Hans Moke Niemann (2477)	0-1	21	2019
Wesley Wang (2304) Rawle A Allicock (2237)	0-1	30	2019
Wesley Wang (2319) Elshan Moradi (2545)	0-1	68	2019
Wesley Wang (2328) V Shen (2418)	0-1	44	2019
Wesley Wang (2269) Alex Kolay (2270)	½-½	19	2019
Wesley Wang (2328) Akshay Indusekar (2101)	1-0	35	2019

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