Bu Xiangzhi

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Bu is the family name here, Xiangzhi is the first name.

Bu Xiangzhi, Sofia 2008
Association	People's Republic of China
Born	December 10, 1985 Qingdao , People's Republic of China
title	International Master (1999) Grand Master (2000)
Current  Elo rating	2705 ​​(August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2731 (February 2019)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Bu Xiangzhi ( Chinese  蔔祥志  /  卜祥志 , Pinyin Bǔ Xiángzhì ; born December 10, 1985 in Qingdao ) is a Chinese chess grandmaster .

Life

Bu learned to play chess at the age of six and received early training. As a 12-year-old he won the youth championship in China and was World Youth Champion U14 in 1998. A sponsorship contract with a mineral water producer in his hometown of Qingdao enabled him to travel to Europe with his trainer Ji Yunqi in 1999 to take part in international chess tournaments. In the autumn of 1999, he achieved three grandmaster norms in just two months, winning tournaments in Paks and Budapest and sharing 1st to 3rd place in Qingdao. At the age of 13 years, 10 months and 13 days, he became the youngest grandmaster in chess history to date.

In 2000 he won the Neckar Open tournament in Deizisau in his first appearance in Germany and defeated the Azerbaijani chess talent Teymur Rəcəbov with 6.5: 1.5 in a competition in New York . Bu won the Chinese national championship in Lanzhou in 2004 . In 2007 he won the Bad Wörishofen chess festival in front of Stefan Bromberger and Romuald Mainka and for the second time the Neckar Open in Deizisau, the Canadian Open in Ottawa in front of Nigel Short and in León the World Cup in blind chess in front of Sergei Karjakin and Magnus Carlsen . In 2008 he took shared first place with Hikaru Nakamura at the Werdenelecom Masters Open in Gibraltar , but then lost the playoff for the first prize. Bu took in 2007 , 2009 and 2011 at the Chess World Cup in part.

Team chess

National team

Bu took part with the Chinese national team in the Chess Olympiad 2002 to 2012, the greatest success was a second place at the Chess Olympiad 2006 in Turin . At the team world championships in 2005 and 2013, he also finished second with the Chinese team and achieved the second-best individual result on his board (2005 on the first board, 2013 on the fourth board). Bu with the Chinese team also won the Asian Team Championship 2008 in Visakhapatnam , the chess competition of the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou and the chess competitions of the Asian Indoor Games in 2007 in Macau and in 2009 in Hanoi .

societies

Bu played in the Chinese team championship until 2014 for the team from Shandong and became Chinese team champions with them in 2007 and 2010 . In 2015 he played for the Chongqing team and since 2016 he has been back in Shandong . In 2009 he won the European Club Cup with Economist-SGSEU-1 Saratov . In the German Chess League, Bu played for TV Tegernsee in the 2006/07 season . He was also registered with Tegernsee in the following two seasons, but was no longer used.

Web links

Commons : Bu Xiangzhi  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Bu Xiangzhi at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bu Xiangzhi's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
2. ↑ Bu Xiangzhi's results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Bu Xiangzhi's results at the Asian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Bu Xiangzhi's results at the Asian Games ( memento of the original from March 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on olimpbase.org (English) 
5. ↑ Bu Xiangzhi's results at indoor Asian games on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ Bu Xiangzhi's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Bu is the family name here, Xiangzhi is the first name.