Li Chao

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

Li Chao, 2010
Association	People's Republic of China
Born	April 21, 1989, Taiyuan , Shanxi Province
title	Grandmaster (2007)
Current  Elo rating	2683 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2758 (June 2016)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Li Chao ( Chinese  李超 , Pinyin Lǐ Chāo ; born April 21, 1989 in Taiyuan , Shanxi Province ) is a Chinese chess master . At the international chess federation FIDE a "b" is added to his name because there is another player with the same first and last name.

Career

Li Chao reached the 5th – 10th at the U20 Junior World Championships in Istanbul in 2005. Place and with an Elo performance of 2613 he fulfilled his first grandmaster norm . The second he achieved at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow in 2007 in group A1, the third at the Lake Sevan tournament in Yerevan in July 2007, where he came 1st – 3rd. Reached place; after the fine evaluation he came third. He has held the title of Grand Master since 2007 .

Li Chao won with 8 1/2 points from 9 games at the Scandinavian tournament in Täby 2007. He won the 4th IGB Dato 'Arthur Tan Open in Kuala Lumpur in 2007. At the 2009 World Chess Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk , he switched to the first round Gabriel Sarkissjan , a player of the extended world elite with an Elo rating of 2676 at the time. In the second round his task was only easier on paper, Yannick Pelletier had an Elo rating of 2589 at that time. He won against him with 4 , 5: 3.5. In the third round he was eliminated from the world class player Vüqar Həşimov (Elo 2758): Li Chao lost with 1.5: 3.5. At the 2011 World Chess Cup he lost to Nguyễn Ngọc Trường Sơn in the first round . In May 2013 Li Chao won the Manila Continental Championship of Asia with 7 points from 9 games and qualified for the 2013 World Chess Cup . In this he prevailed in the first round against Evgeny Postny and failed in the second round to Anish Giri . In 2015 Li Chao won the Open in Cappelle-la-Grande and the Neckar Open . In August 2015 he defeated Péter Lékó in a competition that was held in Szeged with 4: 2 (+2 = 4 −0). In February 2016 he was the winner of the Graz Open tournament with 8 points from 9 games.

National team

Li Chao took part with the Chinese national team in the 2008 , 2010 , 2012 , 2016 and 2018 Chess Olympiads , the 2011 and 2013 World Team Championships (in which he finished second with China) and the 2012 Asian Team Championship, which he won with China. The greatest success here was the gold medal at the 2018 Chess Olympiad.

societies

In the Chinese team championship, Li Chao has been playing for the Beijing Patriots since 2005 ( Beijing North Olympic since 2013 ) and was the Chinese team champion with them in 2005 , 2006 and 2011 . In the United Arab Emirates he played for the Al-Ain Chess Club , with which he won the Asian club championship in 2008 and at the same time achieved the best individual result of the reserve players with 5.5 points from 6 games, he played in the German Federal Chess League from the 2014 season / 15 until the 2017/18 season for SK Schwäbisch Hall , in the French Top 12 in 2017 he played for Nice Alekhine .

Web links

Commons : Li Chao  - Collection of Images

• Replayable chess games by Li Chao on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Title Applications. On: FIDE.com. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
2. ↑ Folkschackfestivalen 2007. Final ranking. ( Memento from February 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) On: scandinavian-chess.se. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
3. ↑ 4th Date 'Arthur Tan Open: the “Empire” Strikes Back! On: Chessbase.com. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
4. ↑ Mark Crowther: TWIC 1111: Graz Open 2016 . The Week in Chess. February 22, 2016. Accessed March 21, 2016.
5. ↑ Li Chao. Men's Chess Olympiads. On: olimpbase.org. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
6. ↑ Li Chao. World Men's Team Chess Championship. On: olimpbase.org. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
7. ↑ Li Chao. Men's Asian Team Chess Championship. On: olimpbase.org. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
8. ↑ Li Chao. Asian Club Chess Cup's. ( Memento of October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) On: olimpbase.org. Retrieved April 7, 2015.

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