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Chao Li
C Li 
Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.  

Number of games in database: 907
Years covered: 2005 to 2024
Last FIDE rating: 2624 (2594 rapid, 2684 blitz)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2757
Overall record: +284 -109 =271 (63.2%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 243 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (82) 
    B42 B90 B93 B30 B40
 Slav (35) 
    D10 D17 D14 D15 D18
 Sicilian Najdorf (31) 
    B90 B93 B92 B96 B94
 King's Indian (27) 
    E92 E71 E94 E99 E95
 Queen's Pawn Game (27) 
    E00 A50 A41 A46 D02
 Catalan (25) 
    E06 E01 E04 E08 E02
With the Black pieces:
 Sicilian (123) 
    B67 B56 B90 B52 B31
 Grunfeld (90) 
    D85 D70 D80 D72 D76
 Petrov (50) 
    C42 C43
 English (38) 
    A15 A16 A10 A17
 Slav (33) 
    D10 D11 D17 D15 D16
 Sicilian Najdorf (22) 
    B90 B96 B92 B91 B97
Repertoire Explorer

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Y Hou vs C Li, 2011 0-1
   C Li vs H Wang, 2006 1-0
   G Sargissian vs C Li, 2009 0-1
   C Li vs H Wang, 2016 1-0
   M Dzhumaev vs C Li, 2008 0-1
   S Azarov vs C Li, 2007 0-1
   J Polgar vs C Li, 2011 0-1
   C Li vs Landa, 2014 1-0
   K Lie vs C Li, 2010 0-1
   Ivanchuk vs C Li, 2016 0-1

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Malaysian Open (2008)
   Scandinavian Chess Tournament (2007)
   Corus Group C (2010)
   19th Neckar Open (2015)
   Reykjavik Open (2014)
   Graz Open-A (2016)
   2nd Indonesia Open Chess Championship (2012)
   Chinese League (2011)
   PRO Chess League KO Stage (2019)
   Gibraltar Masters (2014)
   Gibraltar Masters (2016)
   Bundesliga 2014/15 (2014)
   World Cup (2009)
   Istanbul Olympiad (2012)
   Pro Chess League (2018)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Grünfeld by Karaokcu

RECENT GAMES:
   🏆 FIDE World Blitz Team
   E Lednikova vs C Li (Aug-05-24) 0-1, blitz
   A Mazhkenov vs C Li (Aug-02-24) 1/2-1/2, rapid
   C Li vs X Xu (Jun-17-23) 1/2-1/2
   J Zhao vs C Li (Jun-16-23) 1/2-1/2
   C Li vs Y Wen (Jun-15-23) 1/2-1/2

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CHAO LI
(born Apr-21-1989, 36 years old) China
PRONUNCIATION:
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Grandmaster (2007); Asian Champion (2013).

Grandmaster Norms

Li Chao scored his first GM norm at the World Junior Championship in 2005 (see below), his second at the Aeroflot Open in 2007 and his third at Lake Sevan in 2007 on 14 July 2007, becoming China's 23rd grandmaster at the age of 18 years 2 months and 23 days. He won his GM title without having to win the IM title first.

Championships

<Junior> He was equal fourth in the World Junior Championship (2005) with 8.5/13, two points behind the winner Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, and scoring his first grandmaster norm; this was also his best result at this event in four attempts. He also played in the World Junior Championship (2006), the World Junior Championship (2008) and the 48th World Junior Championship (2009) without appearing on the leader board.

<National> Li Chao first competed in the Chinese Championship in 2005, where he scored 3.5/9. In July and August 2007, he competed in the Chinese Championship B Group, finishing equal second with 7/10 alongside Chong Liang and Ding Liren, half a point behind the winner Jun Xu. He then competed in the main event a few months later, and scored 4/11 in the Chinese Championship 2007. A year later in 2008, he finished mid-field at the Chinese Championship with 5.5/11. He fared marginally better in the Chinese Championship (2009) where he placed =5th with 6/11. He was outright sixth at the Chinese Championship (2010) with 5.5/11. His 5/11 at the Chinese Championship (2011) was a relatively poor result, but he may have been fatigued by almost continuous chess in the weeks beforehand, contesting the 14 round selection trials in Beijing for the World Team Championship followed immediately by his participation in the Zonal 3.5; he was at the top of the results table in both events. He was equal second at the Chinese Championship (2013).

<Continental> He first participated in a continental championship at the 2007 Asian Continental, where he scored 6.5/11, 1.5 points from the lead. His next appearance at this event was the 9th Asian Continental Men's Chess Championship, where he was equal sixth on 6/9. He won the Asian Continental Championship 2013 outright with 7/9, and accordingly he again qualified for the next stage of the World Championship cycle, namely the World Cup (2013).

<World> He qualified for the World Cup (2009) via the Zonal 3.5 championship played in April 2009, defeating Gabriel Sargissian and Yannick Pelletier in the early rounds before bowing out of the event to Vugar Gashimov in the third round. He again qualified through Zonal 3.5 to play in the World Cup (2011), but lost in the first round to Vietnamese GM Truong Son Nguyen. At the World Cup in 2013, he defeated Evgeny Postny in the first round, but lost to Dutch #1 and World Junior #1 GM Anish Giri in the second round.

Standard Tournaments

<2006-2007> Li Chao's first major tournament was at the Aeroflot Open A2 in 2006, where he scored an above-rating outcome of 5.5/9. He finished 2006 with a strong equal fourth scoring 6.5/9 at the 3rd Singapore Masters International Open Tournament 2006. 2007 started with 4.5/9 at the Aeroflot Open (2007), gaining his second grandmaster norm. In July 2007, he was equal first with 5.5/9 alongside Geetha Narayanan Gopal and Yuri Vovk at the category 12 Lake Sevan round robin tournament in Armenia, gaining his third grandmaster norm. In August 2007, he won the Peoples Chess Festival in Täby, Stockholm with 8½/9. In August, he won the 4th IGB Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysian Open Chess Championship with 9/11, half a point clear of runner-up Yunguo Wan. In late November 2007, he won the President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Cup in Manila with 7/9 on tiebreak ahead of compatriots Weiqi Zhou and Hua Ni. He finished 2007 with 7/9 and outright third placement at the Pamplona Open.

<2008-2009> He was equal first at the Dubai Open (2008) with 7/9 alongside Ehsan Ghaem Maghami, Merab Gagunashvili and Wesley So. He also won first place on tiebreak at the second Philippine International Open staged in Subic Bay Freeport Zone in 2008 ahead of Julio Catalino Sadorra, Weiqi Zhou, Buenaventura Bong Villamayor and Le Quang Liem. He subsequently also won the fifth IGB Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysia Open in Kuala Lumpur in 2008 with the imposing score of 9/11. Soon afterwards, he was equal first (second on tiebreak) at the 3rd President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Tournament with 7/9 alongside Zhong Zhang and Eugenio Torre. In 2009, he was equal second at the 6th Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysia Open with 6.5/9, half a point behind the winner Parimarjan Negi.

<2010-2011> Li Chao won the Corus Group C (2010) with a decisive score of 10/13 (+8 -1 =4), 1.5 points ahead of outright runner-up Abhijeet Gupta. This result earned him an invitation to the Tata Steel Group B (2011), where he scored a close to par for rating 6/13. In February and March 2010, he was second behind Xiangzhi Bu at the 2010 Olympic Tournament Chinese Team Selection Double Round Robin. In April 2010, he won the 48th Doeberl Cup in Canberra, Australia and three months later he was equal first at the category 15 Hainan Danzhou GM (2010), placing second on tiebreak to Bu Xiangzhi. In March 2011, he easily won selection to represent his country at the World Team Championship 2011 (see below) when he placed equal first at the 2011 World Chess Team Tournament Chinese Players Selection Double Round Robin that was staged in Beijing, scoring 9/14 alongside Yangyi Yu and Weiqi Zhou. A modest 4/9 result at the Hainan Danzhou GM (2011) was followed by a runaway 8.5/9 winning result at the 26th Summer Universiade Individual Men played in Beijing in August 2011, two points clear of Yue Wang, Hao Wang, Aleksandr Rakhmanov, Zaven Andriasian, Vasily Papin and Martyn Kravtsiv. In October 2011, he won the Indonesia Open 2011 on tiebreak ahead of Surya Shekhar Ganguly with 7/9.

<2012-2013> In January, he placed equal first (second on tiebreak) at the Queenstown Chess Classic (2012) with 7.5/9 (+6 =3). The following month he won the 5th Colombo International Championships in Sri Lanka with 9/9. In October 2012 he came =1st at the 2nd Indonesia Open Chess Championship (2012). In December 2012 and January 2013, he toured the USA and came third in the 22nd Annual North American Open, and won the combined rapid/classical 2013 Boston Chess Congress and the 2013 Golden State Open, the last mentioned having been played in Concord, California. In March 2013, he returned to Canberra to win the 51st Doeberl Cup with 7.5/9 and soon afterwards placed 2nd behind Loek van Wely at the 2013 Sydney International Open. In July 2013, he was equal first with eight other players at the 27th World Summer Universiade staged in Kazan in Russia.

<2014-2015> In January 2014 he won the 17th Guben New Year Open 2014 with 9/9 and the 16th NordWest Cup in Bad Zwischenahm with 6/7. He won the Reykjavik Open (2014) with 8.5/10 followed by equal fourth at Gibraltar Masters (2014), half a point from the shared lead with 7.5/10, and then equal second with 6.5/9 at the Casino Open held in Graz in February in Austria. In October 2014, he won the 9th Deizisauer International Fall Open with the perfect score of 7/7. In November 2014, he was =1st at the Caen Open and later that month he won the Heusenstammer Schloss Open 6/7. In December 2014, he was equal first at the Barcelona Masters. 2015 started with equal first at the Cappelle-la-Grande in France with 7.5/9, followed by equal third at the 5th HD Bank Cup International open held in Vietnam. There followed a strong win at the 19th Neckar International Open, taking outright first with 8.5/9, a point ahead of runner-up IM Andreas Heimann and 1.5 points ahead of equal 3rd place getters Arkadij Naiditsch and Etienne Bacrot. He scored a rating-neutral 5.5/9 at the powerful Qatar Masters (2015).

Team Events

<Olympiads and other National Representation> Li Chao represented his country at the U16 Olympiads in 2002 and 2004, winning team gold in both and individual gold for board four in the latter. He played as a reserve for China at the Dresden Olympiad (2008), the Khanty-Mansiysk Olympiad (2010), and at the Istanbul Olympiad (2012) in Istanbul. At the last mentioned, he scored 6/7 with a TPR of 2794, missing an individual medal as he was one game short of qualifying for consideration. In other events in which he represented China, he competed in the World Team Championship (2011) and the World Team Championship (2013), scoring team silver on both occasions and individual bronze for board three in 2011. Playing board 3 for China at the 17th Asian Team Championship held in Zaozhuang, China in May 2012, he won team gold and individual bronze. He also played for China in the Russia - China Match (2008) friendly and in the 'Aigo Cup' China-Sweden Summit in 2006, helping his team to victory on both occasions. He scored 7/9 at the World Team Championship (2017).

<Continental> In 2008, Li played reserve for the Al-Ain Chess Club "A" in the Asian Team Championship, winning team and individual gold. Playing board two for Shijiazhuang city at the 17th Asian Cities Chess Championship in Jakarta in 2011, he scored team and individual gold. Li also played fourth board for the Siberia Novosibirsk side in European Club Cup (2015), finishing with the fourth-highest score on his board as his team won the gold medal.

<National> He played for Beijing in the Chinese League from 2005 until 2013 inclusive, during this time winning 3 team golds, 5 team silvers and 1 team bronze. In 2014, Li Chao started playing in the Oberliga Wuerttemberg in Germany, the French League and in the Bundesliga, playing board 3 in the last mentioned for the SK Schwäbisch Hall team. He is again playing for SK Schwäbisch Hall in the 2015-16 season.

Match

He played and won the Leko - Li Chao (2015) match by 4-2, although the final game was not rated due to him clinching the match with a game to spare.

Rapid and Blitz

Li Chao does not seem to favor the quicker versions of the game; however, he did rack up an outright win at the City of Sydney Blitz 2013 with 7.5/9 ahead of Rajaram R Laxman and Attila Czebe. He is currently inactive in both the rapid and blitz forms of the game.

Ratings and Rankings

Li Chao's highest standard rating and ranking to date was 2756 in May 2015 when he was ranked world #14.

He first entered the world's top 100 in April 2009 whilst still a Junior, and has remained in the top 100 since May 2011.

References

Wikipedia article: Li Chao (chess player) and <This Week in Chess>.

Sources

The main source of information for individual events for this bio was the FIDE database (via his FIDE player card) that supplied details of his results since he first became FIDE rated. Information about team results was extracted from Olimpbase.

Last updated: 2025-01-10 07:45:57

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 page 1 of 37; games 1-25 of 907  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. S Yu vs C Li  0-1432005Torch Real Estate Cup China Chess LeagueB56 Sicilian
2. I Khairullin vs C Li 0-1202005World Junior ChampionshipB91 Sicilian, Najdorf, Zagreb (Fianchetto) Variation
3. C Li vs E Moradiabadi  ½-½472005World Junior ChampionshipB42 Sicilian, Kan
4. N Mamedov vs C Li 1-0392005World Junior ChampionshipB90 Sicilian, Najdorf
5. C Li vs G Rohit  1-0492005World Junior ChampionshipB42 Sicilian, Kan
6. Y Zinchenko vs C Li  ½-½832005World Junior ChampionshipB90 Sicilian, Najdorf
7. C Li vs K Kuderinov  1-0382005World Junior ChampionshipB58 Sicilian
8. I Kurnosov vs C Li 0-1392005World Junior ChampionshipB96 Sicilian, Najdorf
9. C Li vs Kharitonov  ½-½742005World Junior ChampionshipB10 Caro-Kann
10. Nyback vs C Li 1-0682005World Junior ChampionshipA17 English
11. V Laznicka vs C Li  1-0632005World Junior ChampionshipB52 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
12. C Li vs V Papin  1-0462005World Junior ChampionshipB42 Sicilian, Kan
13. C Li vs M Paragua  0-12420053rd Pichay Cup Intl OpenB90 Sicilian, Najdorf
14. C Li vs M Kanep  ½-½302006Aeroflot Open-BB93 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6.f4
15. D Chuprov vs C Li  1-0832006Aeroflot Open-BB52 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
16. M Gagunashvili vs C Li  1-0392006Aeroflot Open-BA30 English, Symmetrical
17. C Li vs O Aleshin  0-1582006Aeroflot Open-BC91 Ruy Lopez, Closed
18. A Potapov vs C Li  0-1662006Aeroflot Open-BD82 Grunfeld, 4.Bf4
19. C Li vs A Iljin  1-0402006Aeroflot Open-BB10 Caro-Kann
20. V Yandemirov vs C Li  0-1432006Aeroflot Open-BB55 Sicilian, Prins Variation, Venice Attack
21. C Li vs R Ibrahimov  ½-½402006Aeroflot Open-BB92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation
22. A Obukhov vs C Li  ½-½602006Aeroflot Open-BA15 English
23. R Sangma vs C Li  ½-½972006World Junior ChampionshipB90 Sicilian, Najdorf
24. C Li vs E Valeanu  ½-½482006World Junior ChampionshipB93 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6.f4
25. S Alavi vs C Li  0-1502006World Junior ChampionshipB90 Sicilian, Najdorf
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Aug-18-11  plimko: Li Chao, a Monster!

[Event "26th Summer universiade-men"]
[Site "Shenzhen/China"]
[Date "2011.08.18"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Grigoryan, Avetik"]
[Black "Li, Chao b"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D94"]
[WhiteElo "2608"]
[BlackElo "2669"]
[PlyCount "90"]
[EventDate "2011.??.??"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 g6 5. Nc3 Bg7 6. h3 O-O 7. Bd3 c5 8. O-O Nc6 9. Re1 Nb4 10. Bf1 Bf5 11. Nh4 Bc2 12. Qd2 Ne4 13. Nxe4 Bxe4 14. f3 Bf6 15. fxe4 Bxh4 16. Rd1 dxe4 17. dxc5 Qa5 18. Qc3 Qxc5 19. a3 Nc6 20. Rd5 Qb6 21. Qc2 f5 22. c5 Qc7 23. Bc4 Kg7 24. b4 Bf6 25. Bb2 Ne5 26. Rad1 Rad8 27. Bxe5 Bxe5 28. Qd2 Rxd5 29. Qxd5 Bf6 30. Kh1 Kh6 31. Qd2 b6 32. Kg1 bxc5 33. b5 Bh4 34. a4 Qg3 35. a5 Bg5 36. Re1 f4 37. Qf2 Qxf2+ 38. Kxf2 Bh4+ 39. Ke2 f3+ 40. gxf3 exf3+ 41. Kf1 Bxe1 42. Kxe1 f2+ 43. Kf1 Rf3 44. b6 axb6 45. axb6 Rf6 0-1

Aug-19-11  plimko: Astonishing performance by Li Chao at Universiade: this time Queen sacrifice!

[Event "26th Summer universiade-men"]
[Site "Shenzhen/China"]
[Date "2011.08.19"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Melkumyan, Hrant"]
[Black "Li, Chao b"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D13"]
[WhiteElo "2600"]
[BlackElo "2669"]
[PlyCount "98"]
[EventDate "2011.??.??"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 cxd5 5. Bf4 Nc6 6. e3 e6 7. Bd3 Bd6 8. Nf3 O-O 9. O-O Bxf4 10. exf4 Qd6 11. Ne5 Bd7 12. Rc1 Rfc8 13. a3 Be8 14. Re1 g6 15. Bf1 Na5 16. g4 Qb6 17. b4 Nc6 18. g5 Nh5 19. Nxc6 Rxc6 20. Qd2 Rac8 21. f5 gxf5 22. Re3 Nf4 23. h4 a6 24. Rf3 Nh5 25. Na4 Rxc1 26. Nxb6 R8c2 27. Qe3 Bb5 28. Qe5 Rxf1+ 29. Kg2 Rcc1 30. Re3 Rh1 31. Rg3 f4 32. Qb8+ Kg7 33. Qe5+ Kg6 34. Nxd5 exd5 35. Qd6+ f6 36. gxf6+ fxg3 37. f7+ Kxf7 38. Qxd5+ Ke7 39. Qxb7+ Bd7 40. fxg3 Rhg1+ 41. Kh2 Rge1 42. Kg2 Rg1+ 43. Kh2 Nf6 44. h5 Ng4+ 45. Kh3 Ne3+ 46. Kh4 Nf5+ 47. Kg5 Rxg3+ 48. Kf4 Rf1+ 49. Ke5 Re3+ 0-1

One round to go:
1 GM Li Chao CHN 2669 7,5
2 GM Wang Yue CHN 2709 6
3 GM Andriasyan Zaven ARM 2616 6
4 GM Rakhmanov Aleksandr RUS 2585 6
5 GM Vovk Iurii UKR 2564 6
6 GM Wang Hao CHN 2718 5,5
...

Aug-19-11  plimko: Li Chao Over 2700!

http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_5d15...

Aug-21-11  plimko: Li Chao won the "26th Summer Universiade" (Men) in Shenzhen: 8.5/9, performance near 3000!

http://chess-results.com/tnr54659.a...

Aug-21-11  twinlark: This is far too lonely a page for such a strong player. This is a fantastic result ...his last 7 games were 7 straight wins against 7 GMs for a TPR of 2993.

Amazing and congratulations. This should be a great preparation for the World Cup next week. His first round will be against Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son, and if he wins that he most likely gets to face Svidler in the second round. If he makes it past Svidler, who's in great form, he'll probably face Motylev or Caruana in the third round.

After that it's anyone's guess, especially with a format that does its best to promote upsets, but Kamsky and Karjakin would be at mild odds on to emerge in rounds 4 and 5.

Aug-24-11  twinlark: <plimko>

How do you think Li Chao will perform at the Cup?

Aug-25-11  plimko: <twinlark> His first round is very dangerous: I think that Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son is an underrated player. Great match!
Aug-25-11  twinlark: <plimko> Yes, the mini-match format makes most outcomes unpredictable, other than those from obvious mismatches, and this isn't one of them.
Aug-30-11  twinlark: That would have been a real blow for Li Chao to lose in the first round after his recent hot form. A bad day for the Chinese players.
Oct-02-11  wordfunph: <Aug-19-11 plimko: Li Chao Over 2700!>

congrats GM Lichao!

next stop: 2750

Oct-19-11  plimko: Congrats to Li Chao! He won a strong open (Wang Yue, Dreev, Wesley So, Ganguly, Tkachiev...) in Indonesia

http://chess-results.com/tnr57896.a...

On 'Scacchi Internazionali'
http://biker60.wordpress.com/2011/1...

Jan-02-12
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  Richard Taylor: He's playing in NZ at Queenstown (in the Queenstown Classic) on Jan 15th

Entries so far (January 2012 FIDE ratings; italic are NZCF national ratings): 1 2693 GM Li Chao (CHN)
2 2653 GM Gawain Jones (ENG)
3 2639 GM Surya Ganguly (IND)
4 2592 GM Eduardas Rozentalis (LTU)
5 2572 GM Sune Berg Hansen (DEN)
6 2569 GM Zhao Jun (CHN)
7 2553 GM Dejan Bojkov (BUL)
8 2551 GM Zhao Xue (CHN)
9 2537 GM Klaus Bischoff (GER)
10 2459 IM George Xie (AUS)
11 2455 GM Kivanc Haznedaroglu (TUR)
12 2422 Trevor Tao (AUS)
13 2414 IM Akshat Khamparia (IND)
14 2403 GM Darryl Johansen (AUS)
15 2401 IM Herman Van Riemsdijk (BRA)
16 2388 FM Max Illingworth (AUS)
17 2376 IM Moulthun Ly (AUS)
18 2375 IM Stephen Solomon (AUS)
19 2375 FM Bobby Cheng (AUS)
20 2359 IM Anthony Ker (NZL)
21 2354 IM James Morris (AUS)
22 2349 FM Junta Ikeda (AUS)
23 2345 IM Russell Dive (NZL)
24 2325 wgm Irene Sukandar (INA)
25 2323 IM Guy West (AUS)
26 2294 FM Dusan Stojic (AUS)
27 2290 IM Paul Garbett (NZL)
28 2277 Domagoj Dragicevic (AUS)
29 2273 FM Bob Smith (NZL)
30 2266 FM Tim Reilly (AUS)
31 2261 FM Stephen Lukey (NZL)
32 2259 FM Chris Wallis (AUS)
33 2258 FM Mike Steadman (NZL)
34 2244 wgm Xiaobing Vivian Gu (CHN)
35 2241 Marc Repplinger (GER)
36 2234 wgm Kruttika Nadig (IND)
37 2227 Matthew Drummond (AUS)
38 2216 Andrew Bird (AUS)
39 2215 IM Andrew Brown (AUS)
40 2210 FM Ove Hartvig (DEN)
41 2188 Eugene Schon (AUS)
42 2182 Daniel Shen (NZL)
43 2167 wgm Karolina Smokina (MDA)
44 2167 Laurence Matheson (AUS)
45 2167 Yi Liu (AUS)
46 2165 Luke Li (NZL)
47 2132 Malcolm Pyke (AUS)
48 2129 Andy Machdoem (NZL)
49 2127 Quentin Johnson (NZL)
50 2123 wim Christin Andersson (SWE)
51 2092 FM Brian Jones (AUS)
52 2087 John Duneas (NZL)
53 2079 Alan Ansell (NZL)
54 2068 John McDonald (NZL)
55 2066 Noel Pinic (NZL)
56 2060 Ivan Dordevic (NZL)
57 2056 Pengyu Chen (AUS)
58 2053 wim Ingrid Lauterbach (ENG)
59 2052 Stephen Fairbairn (CAN)
60 2036 Alek Safarian (AUS)
61 2031 Fuatai Fuatai (NZL)
62 2030 Jason Tang (AUS)
63 2022 Chris Burns (NZL)
64 2020 wim Sue Maroroa (NZL)
65 2016 Malcolm Armstrong (ENG)
66 2010 wim Emma Guo (AUS)
67 2008 George Lester (AUS)
68 1999 Leon Kempen (AUS)
69 1994 Ari Dale (AUS)
70 1991 Peter Stuart (NZL)
71 1990 Karl Zelesco (AUS) 72 1989 Andrew Janisz (NZL) 73 1985 Justin Davis (NZL)
74 1979 wfm Helen Milligan (NZL)
75 1965 Hilton Bennett (NZL)
76 1961 Mathew King (NZL)
77 1959 Adrian Flitney (AUS)
78 1958 Dennis Holland (AUS)
79 1947 Ross Jackson (NZL)
80 1945 Nathan Goodhue (NZL)
81 1939 David Lovejoy (AUS)
82 1933 Richard Voon (AUS)
83 1929 Sean Watharow (AUS)
84 1924 Chris Benson (NZL)
85 1924 Hans Gao (NZL)
86 1922 Kian Hwa Lim (MAS)
87 1916 Matthias Körber (GER)
88 1914 Kenneth Holt (AUS)
89 1910 Bill Forster (NZL)
80 1908 Hamish Selnes (AUS)
91 1884 Harry Press (AUS)
92 1883 Angelo Tsagarakis (AUS)
93 1873 Roy Seabrook (NZL)
94 1872 Edward Rains (NZL)
95 1865 Efrain Tionko (AUS)
96 1850 Federico Roura (NZL)
97 1849 William Zhang (NZL)
98 1848 Andrew Brockway (NZL)
99 1846 (?) Hacer Haznedaroglu (TUR)
100 1834 Tony Booth (NZL)
101 1834 Arie Nijman (NZL)
102 1830 Hamish Gold (NZL)
103 1823 Bruce Kay (NZL)
104 1807 Winston Yao (NZL)
105 1802 David Capper (NZL)
106 1802 Nigel Cooper (NZL)
107 1798 wfm Natasha Fairley (NZL)
108 1787 Bruce Gloistein (NZL)
109 1781 Huseyin Yeten (CYP)
110 1771 Enzo Pieri (ITA)
111 1760 Erlend Millikan (USA)
112 1752 wfm Viv Smith (NZL)
113 1746 Stewart Holdaway (NZL)
114 1737 Tim Rains (NZL)
115 1728 Kevin Brown (AUS)
116 1719 John Beckman (AUS)
117 1715 wfm Nicole Tsoi (NZL)
118 1703 Roland Brockman (AUS)
119 1677 Ryan Louie (AUS)
120 1672 William XW Li (NZL)
121 1672 Bob Mitchell (NZL)
122 1668 Elliott Renzies (AUS)
123 1643 Leteisha Simmonds (AUS)
124 1643 Alphaeus Ang (NZL)
125 1619 Gary Judkins (NZL)
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Jan-15-12  plimko: Queenstown Open with Li Chao from 15th to 23rd January 2012

Official site
http://www.newzealandchess.co.nz/qu...

On 'Scacchi Internazionali'
http://biker60.wordpress.com/2012/0...

Jan-16-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  Benzol: <plimko> Queenstown Chess Classic (2012)
Jul-13-13  notyetagm: A variation from yesterday's Li Chao B game:

http://chessbomb.com/o/2013-univers...

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30 ♕c2x♘f5!!


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[Event "Universiad 2013"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "?"]
[Round "06"]
[White "Wojciech Moranda"]
[Black "Chao B Li"]
[Result "0-1"]
[BlackTime "1380"]
[WhiteTime "94"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Qa4+ Bd7 6. Qb3 dxc4 7. Qxc4 O-O 8. Bf4 Bc6 9. e3 Nd5 10. Bg3 Nb6 11. Qb3 Bxf3 12. gxf3 N8d7 13. Rd1 a5 14. Be2 a4 15. Qc2 c6 16. O-O Nf6 17. Ne4 Nfd5 18. Nc5 Qc8 19. a3 Rd8 20. Kh1 Ra7 21. Rg1 Nc7 22. Rg2 Rd5 23. Rdg1 Ne8 24. Nd3 Nd7 25. f4 Nd6 26. Ne5 Nxe5 27. fxe5 Nf5 28. Bc4 Rd8 29. e6 fxe6 30. Bc7 Rf8 31. Bb6 Ra8 32. Rg4 Kh8 33. Bc5 Qd7 34. Qe2 Rf6 35. Ba2 Nd6 36. R1g2 Raf8 37. Kg1 Rf3 38. Bb1 Rh3 39. R4g3 Rh6 40. Rf3 Nf5 41. Bc2 Ra8 42. Rf4 Qc7 43. Re4 b6 44. Bb4 Qd7 45. Qc4 Qd5 46. Qxd5 exd5 47. Re6 c5 48. Bd2 cxd4 49. Bxf5 gxf5 50. Rxe7 Rg6 51. Rxg6 hxg6 52. exd4 Bxd4 53. Bc3 Bxc3 54. bxc3 Rc8 55. Rb7 Rxc3 56. Rxb6 Rxa3 57. Rxg6 Ra1+ 58. Kg2 a3
0-1

Jan-27-14  whiteshark: Recently he's grazing various European Open Tournaments. Last week (23.01.-26.01.2014) he won the 16th NordWest-Cup 2014 in Bad Zwischenahn (see tournament page: http://www.chessorg.de/nwcup.php) and tomorrow he'll start at Gibraltar ...
Jan-27-14  twinlark: A few days before that he played in the 17th Guben New Year Open in Germany, winning with 9/9. There were 4 other GMs in the field and a smattering of other masters: http://www.theweekinchess.com/html/...
Aug-11-14  diagonal: Li Chao is part of Chess history at REYKJAVIK:

From 1964 when Mikhail Tal won it at its inauguration edition with a record 12½ points out of 13 (round robin all-play-all) to Li Chao, clear first in the Open (swiss system) 2014.

This traditional tournament was initially held every two years, but has since 2008 taken place every year. From its inception until 1980 (and again in 1992) it was a closed invitation tournament, since 1982 it is played as an Open.

Throughout its history the Reykjavik Tournament and Open has featured many of the chess leading players in the world, including Mikhail Tal, Svetozar Gligoric, Nona Gaprindashvili, David Bronstein, Vasily Smyslov, Bent Larsen, Friðrik Ólafsson, Vlastimil Hort, Mark Taimanov, Victor Korchnoi, Efim Geller, Lev Polugaevsky, Lev Alburt (winning the first Open at Reykjavik in 1982), Samuel Reshevsky (co-winner at age of 72.5 years in the Open 1984 ahead of many grandmaster fellows), Walter Browne, Jan Timman, Predrag Nikolic, Anthony Miles, Nigel Short, Florin Gheorghiu, Nick DeFirmian, Yasser Seirawan, Larry Christiansen, Pia Cramling, Helgi Olafsson, Margeir Petursson, Johann Hjartarson, Hannes Stefansson, Hikaru Nakamura, Vladimir Epishin, Alexei Shirov, Yuriy Kuzubov, Emil Sutovsky, Judit Polgar, Alexander Grischuk, Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, and Hou Yifan.

The Reykjavík Open enjoys good reputation, more than 200 chess masters registered interest in participating in recent years.

The 2012 Reykjavik Open Edition was voted the 3rd best open tournament in the world by ACP. Only Gibraltar and Aeroflot Open Moscow was higher on the list.

On January 14th, 1964, the inaugural Reykjavik event started. The Reykjavik Open 2014 was held for the 29th time, from March 4th to March 12th 2014 in Harpa, the 28.000 sqm. concert hall.

Li Chao finished with 8,5 points from 10 rounds. The best placed icelandic player was GM Helgi Ólafsson on 8 points, sharing the second place with Robin Van Kampen, Eric Hansen and Eduardas Rozentalis, other players included Arkadij Naiditsch, Ferenc Berkes, Richard Rapport, Nils Grandelius, Erwin L’Ami, Hannes Stefansson, and Walter Browne.

50 years since first Reykjavik Chess Festival: Congratulations to Li Chao for his win of the jubilee event 2014!

http://www.chessdom.com/li-chao-cla... http://www.reykjavikopen.com/

Mar-08-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  Penguincw: Congrats to Li Chao for winning the 2015 Cappelle la Grande Open (despite a slow start) with a score of 7.5/9 (+6,-0,=3), edging out Vladimir Onischuk on tiebreaks (which includes winning their H2H meeting). Li Chao entered as the first seed, and finished in first place.

I estimate that Li Chao's rating went from 2728 to 2734.2.

Apr-08-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  Penguincw: This was a few days ago, but congrats to Li Chao for winning the Neckar Open with a stunning 8.5/9 score. He gained 15.1 rating points in the tournament. Naiditsch and Bacrot also participated.

http://www.neckar-open.de/index.php...

Apr-30-15  ex0duz: Li Chao gained 18.1 rating points and moved up 11 spots to sit now at 2748.1 and at rank 16..

This is his all time high ELO rating. Where did this performance come from? I don't remmeber him having any awesome runs or winning any major tournament. Was his current high rating built primarily on beating 2600~ players? Like how Wesley So did to get his 2700 to begin with? :P

Anyway, i hope that he can keep it up and that he gets an invite to some closed supertournament soon.. because with such a high rating, he definitely deserves it.

Ding is also about to break into the top 10, he's at 2757.4 and rank 11 now.

Jun-08-15  sydbarrett: For a player so close to being top 10, I have to say that he is surprising not well-known.
Jun-08-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  OhioChessFan: <ex0> yes, it's been a very quiet rise to the top. While not old, 26 is a bit late for such a run. <syd> big tournament participation is the primary source of getting well known.
Aug-01-15  cro777: Li Chao to play a 6-game match against Peter Leko in Szeged, Hungary from 14-20 August 2015.

"KID killer" Li Chao started 2015 in fine fashion. He won the International Deizisau Neckar Open, the biggest German chess open, most convincingly scoring 8.5/9. (He faced the King's Indian Defense in four of his five white games, and scored 4/4).

Before this tournament he won the 31st International Chess Open Cappelle-la-Grande, France (he shared 1st with Onischuk, scoring 7.5/9, winning the tournament on tiebreaks).

Aug-06-15  AzingaBonzer: Leko the Drawmaster versus Li Chao the KID Killer. Should be interesting.
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