[citation needed] Wang has participated in several national team summit matches, including against the United States (2002), Russia (2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009), France (2006) and the UK (2007).

In 1999, Wang won the under-12 category of the World Youth Chess Championship in Oropesa del Mar, Spain.

[7] Continuing, from October 14–31, when Wang became a FIDE master, he competed in his debut Olympiad in Calvià, Majorca scoring 8/12 (+5−1=6) on the first reserve board with a 2621 performance.

The Russians led 2–1 but Wang beat Vadim Zvjaginsev to tie the match and win the event for the Chinese.

[9] On July 10–22 at the Taiyuan Scheveningen Event, the Chinese team won 36½–35½ against the foreign side with Wang scoring 6½/12.

From 28 July to 7 August, at the 4th Marx György Memorial (Category 15 av 2622 of July'06 ratings) in Paks, Hungary, Wang scored 5/10 (+1−1=8) and came joint third with Zoltán Almási.

At the Asian Games in Doha in December, the national team won silver, with Wang on board two scoring 6/9 points (+4−1=4) with a 2647 performance.

[14] In April, he won the Philippines International Open Chess Championship in Subic Bay Freeport Zone with 7/9 points.

At the FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, in November, Wang defeated Aleksei Pridorozhni (1½–½), Sergei Tiviakov (2½–1½) and his compatriot Bu Xiangzhi (1½–½), only to be eliminated by Ivan Cheparinov (½–1½) in the fourth round.

In December, Wang came second on tiebreak at the Category 17 XVII Ciudad de Pamplona (Magistral A) tournament in Spain having scored 4/7 (TPR 2695).

In his super-tournament debut in April–May 2008 at the 1st FIDE Grand Prix in Baku, he came joint first place with Vugar Gashimov and Magnus Carlsen, scoring 8/13 (+3−0=10) with a performance rating of 2806.

[19] Wang called it a "nightmare start" when his planned flight departure from Beijing on the 18th was delayed because of bad weather and did not arrive in Azerbaijan until the early morning of the 21st, thereby missing the opening ceremony as well as having to face the top seed (Magnus Carlsen) with black later on the same day.

In July–August 2008, at the 2nd FIDE Grand Prix in Sochi, he came joint third with Gata Kamsky with 7½/13 (+2−0=11; elo performance 2765) behind winner Levon Aronian and second placed Teimour Radjabov.

[24] In September 2008, he competed at the 5th Russia–China Match in Ningbo where he scored 3/5 (+1−0=4) with a performance rating of 2767 for the men's team (with Li Chao, Wang Hao, Ni Hua, Bu Xiangzhi).

[26] In November 2008, he played on board one for the Chinese Open team at the 38th Chess Olympiad in Dresden, Germany (6½/10 (+3−0=7) and performance rating 2773).

[32] On 16 January – 1 February, Wang in his debut at the event, became the second Chinese player to compete at the Group A Corus after Zhang Zhong in 2004, in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands.

[33][34] All of his decisive games were with the white pieces; He lost to Ivanchuk, Adams and Radjabov, and had wins against Morozevich and Carlsen.

in a what was to be a wild and scrappy game against Ivanchuk in an early deviation of the Queen's Gambit Declined:[35] At the 26th Linares chess tournament (February 18 – March 8) Wang made his debut at the eight-player event and became the first ever Chinese player to participate.

In 2009, Wang also participated at the 18th Amber Blindfold & Rapid tournament[34] in Nice (March 14–26) in his debut event and as a second Chinese player (after Xie Jun in 1996),[36] 5th M-Tel Masters[34] in Sofia (May 12–23) (Topalov, Carlsen, Ivanchuk, Wang, Dominguez and Shirov) debut event and second Chinese player after Bu Xiangzhi in 2008, 22nd [37] León Rapid[38] León June 4–7, 4 player rapid with Ivanchuk, Morozevich, Carlsen; 20m+10s,[39] the Russia v China match and the Maotai Prince Cup China National Chess King & Queen Championships.

At the FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, in November, Wang was the tenth seed, and defeated Nikolai Kabanov (2–0) and Boris Savchenko (2½–1½) before falling to Étienne Bacrot (1½–3½) in the third round playoff.

From May 9–25, 2010, he participated in the final FIDE Grand Prix in Astrakhan, but failed to qualify for the Candidates Tournament for the World Chess Championship 2012.

[44] In October, he played for the Russian team "Siberia" that won the European Chess Club Cup in Skopje.

[47] Described as a highly technical, consistent and solid player he has a preference for the endgame where he seeks to slowly grind down his opponents with a slight advantage.

In February 2009 after Corus finished, Teimour Radjabov was quoted in an interview saying, "[Wang Yue] does not allow his opponents to develop counterplay and he exerts "strangulation" style very effectively.