Yeoh Li Tian


Yeoh Li Tian is a Malaysian chess player. He was awarded the title International Master by FIDE in 2017.

Chess career

Yeoh won the Malaysian Chess Championship in 2015 and 2016. In 2017 he won the FIDE Zone 3.3 Championship on tiebreak from Nguyễn Ngọc Trường Sơn. Thanks to this victory, Yeoh received an automatical award of the title International Master. He also achieved a norm for the title Grandmaster, the first ever by a Malaysian, and became the first Malaysian ever to qualify to play in the FIDE World Cup. In this latter event, held in Batumi later in the same year, Yeoh was eliminated by former world champion Viswanathan Anand in the first round.
In the 2019 Philippines Southeast Asian Games, Yeoh delivered Malaysia’s first ever Rapid Chess gold in the Sea Games.

Personal life

Yeoh is a former student of SMJK Katholik. He is currently studying Mathematics at Imperial College London.