Lu Shanglei

Lu Shanglei
Country  China
Born (1995-07-10) 10 July 1995
Shenyang, Liaoning province
Title Grandmaster (2011)
FIDE rating 2627 (December 2016)
Peak rating 2620 (March 2016)
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Lu.

Lu Shanglei (Chinese: 卢尚磊; born 10 July 1995) is a Chinese chess grandmaster and world junior chess champion in 2014.

Career

In 2010, Lu was a member of the Chinese team (alongside Yu Yangyi, Wang Chen, and Wang Jue) that won the 5th Vladimir Dvorkovich Cup, a junior team competition held in Moscow. He scored 12 points out of 14 playing on board three.[1][2]

He was awarded by FIDE the title of grandmaster (GM) in October 2011. He achieved his first GM norm in May 2011, at the Asian Individual Championship in Mashhad, Iran, where he tied for fourth place; as coming from a continental championship, it was a 20-game norm. The following month, he gained his final norm required for the grandmaster title at the 2nd Chairman Prospero A. Pichay Cup in the Subic Bay Freeport Zone, Philippines.[3]

In August 2011, Lu came second, behind GM Li Shilong, at the 8th Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysia Open in Kuala Lumpur.[4][5] The following year, he won the 1st Grand Europe Open in Golden Sands, Bulgaria.[6][7]

In 2013, he played for the Chinese men's team in the China-USA Chess Summit in Ningbo, China. The match was won by the Chinese.[8][9]

In June 2014, at the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in Dubai, Lu was the only one who won against the eventual winner, Magnus Carlsen, in the blitz event.[10] In October 2014, Lu won the World Junior Chess Championship in Pune, India with a score of 10/13 points. Thanks to this victory he qualified for the 2015 Chess World Cup. In the following month, he took part in the 8th Kings Tournament in Mediaș, Romania, a match between teams China and Romania held with the Scheveningen system. He was the top scorer in the inaugural blitz tournament with 6.5/9 points, and helped the Chinese team (made up of Lu, Ni Hua, Wang Yue, and Wei Yi) to win the match scoring 3/4 in the classical encounter.[11]

In April 2015, he finished fourth at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow, and second at the Aeroflot blitz tournament.[12][13] In June 2015, he won two blitz tournaments in Bulgaria, the Golden Sands Blitz[14] and the Albena Blitz,[15] both with a score of 9/11 points. In the subsequent month, Lu helped the Chinese team to win the 9th China-Russia Match, held with the Scheveningen system.[16] At the Chess World Cup 2015 he knocked out Alexander Moiseenko and Wang Hao in rounds one and two respectively, then he was eliminated by Veselin Topalov in the third round after the first set of rapid tiebreaker games. In 2016 Lu Shanglei won the Asian Blitz Championship in Tashkent.[17][18]

Lu plays for the Zhejiang team in the China Chess League.

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