 He scored 8/9 on the first board, a result that also earned him the individual gold medal, producing a rating performance of 2577.In the same month he won the "Children of Asia", a youth tournament in Yakutsk, Russia.Wang's first major tournament win was the Dubai Open in April 2005, when he was still untitled and finished clear first with a score of 7/9 points (rating performance of 2731), ahead of 53 grandmasters and 30 international masters.