Bu Xiangzhi
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| Full name | Bu Xiangzhi | |
| Country |  China |
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| Born | December 10, 1985 Qingdao, Shandong, China |
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| Title | Grandmaster (GM) | |
| FIDE rating | 2708 (No. 22 on the April 2008 FIDE ratings list) |
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| Peak rating | 2708 (April 2008) | |
- This is a Chinese name; the family name is Bu.
Bu Xiangzhi (Chinese: 卜祥志; Pinyin: Bǔ Xiángzhì; born December 10, 1985 in Qingdao, Shandong) is a Chinese Super Grandmaster-chess player.
He will competing at the "Chess Giants Yerevan 2008" Rapid Round-Robin Tournament (organized by the Armenian Chess Federation) from June 8 to 15, 2008, in Yerevan, Armenia.[1] He will also be competing at the Inventi Grandmaster Tournament in Antwerp, Belgium in August 2008.[2]
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[edit] Chess career
[edit] Individual
At age six, Bu was first introduced to chess by an elder cousin (his grandfather was a strong xiangqi player), and his interest grew with his compatriot Xie Jun's women's world championship victory in 1991.[3] He began taking chess seriously at the age of nine years and received early training from then on. During this time, the Qingdao Daily newspaper founded a local chess club which many children in the city went to, including the Qingdao Daily's chief editor's son. His first chess book was a translation of the famous My 60 Memorable Games by Bobby Fischer, a player Bu admires. By 1993, he had already won the Qingdao Junior Chess Championship.
In 1997 this talent became the Children's Champion of the National S.T. Lee Cup. In 1998 at the age of 12, he captured the titles of National Pupil Champion and Under-14 World Youth Champion. In 1999 he finished seventh in the prestigious Tan Chin Nam Grandmaster Invitational Tournament.
A sponsor's contract with a mineral water producer of his home city Qingdao enabled to him in 1999 with his coach Ji Yunqi to travel to Europe to take part there in several international chess tournaments. In autumn 1999 he achieved within only two months three Grandmaster norms, with tournament wins at the 21-29 September Paks GM (Category 10) tournament (6/9 points) and 3-13 October Kluger Memorial Budapest First Saturday (Category 7) tournament (8.5/11 pts), and coming joint first in the 18-23 October Qingdao Daily Cup (6/8 pts).[4] He was 13 years 10 months 13 days old when he scored the final norm, at the time the youngest person to achieve that title. He gave up the running status of the world's youngest Grandmaster to Sergey Karjakin in July 2002. Also in 1999 he won the German Open.
In 2000 in Germany he won in his first appearance the International Neckar Open in Deizisau, Stuttgart. Also in 2000, Bu defeated the Azerbaijani chess talent Teimour Radjabov 6.5-1.5 in an eight game Future World Champions Match competition in New York. They played two games a day at a time control of one hour for all the moves. The margin of victory was a little flattering to Bu with Teimour Radjabov missing a number of good chances on the first day and then having a bit of a disaster on day two losing both games. Radjabov had beaten Bu in the two game final of a Cadet's event held earlier in the year on the Kasparovchess.com site.
In December 2003, Bu won the 10th Aceimar International Open in Mondariz with 7.5/9.[5] In November 2004, he became National Chess Champion of China in Lanzhou with a score of 9.0/11.[6]
In July 2007, Bu won the Canadian Open Chess Championship in Ottawa, Canada.[7] In October 2007, he won the Blindfold Chess World Cup in Bilbao by a 1.5 point margin, defeating strong Grandmasters Veselin Topalov, Magnus Carlsen, Pentala Harikrishna, Judit Polgar and Sergey Karjakin in the process[8].
In the 2006/2007 season, he played in the German Bundesliga on board one for TV Tegernsee. For the 2007/2008 season he plays on board two.[9]
In January 2008, at the 6th Gibtelecom Chess Festival in Gibraltar, Bu came joint first scoring 8.0/10 (+7, =2, -1; Elo performance 2834) but lost on the two game blitz play-off tie-break to Hikaru Nakamura.[10] In April 2008, Bu competed at the Russian Team Championships in Dagomys, Sochi for the team Shatar-Metropole (Buryatia), where he achieved a score of 6.5/10 (+3=7-0) and a performance rating of 2771. In his super-tournament debut in Sofia, Bulgaria at the Grand Slam M-Tel Masters (Category 20) tournament in May 7-18, 2008, he came fifth out of six players (Levon Aronian, Ivan Cheparinov, Vassily Ivanchuk, Teimour Radjabov, Veselin Topalov) having scored 3.0/10 (+1, =4, -5; Elo performance 2594).[11]
[edit] National team
Bu has played regularly since 2001 in the Chinese national team. With the World Team Chess Championship in 2005 in Beersheba,[12] and with the Chess Olympiad in 2006 in Turin he achieved on the top board very good results and won individual and team silvers in each event. He played first board in the 2006 Chess Olympiad, where the Chinese team finished in second place. He won four games and drew eight, including his games against top Grandmasters Vladimir Kramnik, Viswanathan Anand and Levon Aronian. He has played in two previous Chess Olympiads in 2002 and 2004, both on board four.[13]
He was part of the team that won silver at the December 2006 Asian Games in Doha.[14] He won an individual bronze medal on board two as the team won gold at the 2008 15th Asian Team Chess Championship in Visakhapatnam.[15]
[edit] See also
[edit] Further reading
- "Interview with Bu Xiangzhi" by Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam, New in Chess (2002/6 edition) [16].
[edit] References
- ^ Chessdom - Chess Giants Yerevan 2008
- ^ InventiChess
- ^ Bu Xiangzhi: I would bet on Topalov for victory in Sofia
- ^ Xiangzhi Bu, jüngster Großmeister der Geschichte, TeleSchach : Schach aktuell. Update 24.10.1999. (German)
- ^ http://www.fide.com/ratings/trarc.phtml?event16=388&codt=11
- ^ http://www.fide.com/ratings/trarc.phtml?event16=30&codt=15
- ^ ChessBase.com "Chinese dragon wins Canadian Open", July 16, 2007.
- ^ chessbase.com
- ^ schachbundesliga.de
- ^ Gibraltar Chess Festival 2008
- ^ M-Tel Masters 2008
- ^ OlimpBase :: World Men's Team Chess Championship :: Bu Xiangzhi
- ^ OlimpBase :: Men's Chess Olympiads :: Bu Xiangzhi
- ^ OlimpBase :: Asian Chess Games :: Bu Xiangzhi
- ^ OlimpBase :: Men's Asian Team Chess Championship :: Bu Xiangzhi
- ^ Magazine - New In Chess
- Biography of Bu Xiangzhi, Corus Chess 2007.
- Bu Xiangzhi: I would bet on Topalov for victory in Sofia (2008 Interview)
[edit] External links
- FIDE rating card for Bu Xiangzhi
- NICBase Online Info at New In Chess
- Bu Xiangzhi at ChessGames.com
- Bu Xiangzhi at Sina Sports
- Rating data for player Bu, Xiangzhi
- Chessmetrics Ratings: Bu Xiangzhi
- Elo rating with world rankings and historical development since 1999 (benoni.de/schach/elo) for Bu Xiangzhi
| Preceded by Zhang Zhong |
Men's Chinese Chess Champion 2004 |
Succeeded by Wang Yue |
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