Inventi Grandmaster Tournament in Antwerp, Belgium on 23–31 August 2008. He won the tournament with a score of 7/9 (+5−0=4) and a performance rating of 2748. In September 2008, he competed at the 5th Russia v China Match in Ningbo where he scored 2½/5 with a performance rating of 2707 for the men's team (with Wang Yue, Wang Hao, Ni Hua, Li Chao). In October Bu won the men's rapid individual tournament of the 2008 World Mind Sports Games. In December 2008, he came third out of six at the Pearl Spring chess tournament in Nanjing with 5/10. 2010 He scored 6½/9 (+4−0=5) at the Moscow Open in January with a 2723 performance. Bu Xiangzhi scored 5½ (+3−1=5) at the 2010 Aeroflot Open finishing in 10th place out of 80 players with a 2700 performance. Following this tournament, he scored 13.0/18 in the Preliminaries of the 2010 World Blitz Championship Preliminaries on February 18 to finish in second place behind Maxime Vachier-Lagrave; the result automatically qualified Bu for the 2010 World Blitz Championship to be held in Moscow in November 2010. From May 24 through June 4, 2010, Bu participated in the Chinese Chess Championship. In clear first after ten rounds, Bu needed a final round victory to secure his second Chinese chess championship. However, he drew his final round, allowing Wang Hao and Zhou Jianchao to catch him with 7½/11; Wang won the championship on tiebreak. Bu participated in the 1st Danzhou Tournament in China from June 11 through June 20. After a victory over Zhou Jianchao, Bu led the tournament with 5½/8 with one round remaining. A final round draw with Hou Yifan allowed Li Chao to catch him with 6/9, but Bu won the tournament on tiebreak with a performance rating of 2740. From August 4 through 15th, Bu participated in the 7th annual China versus Russia match, held in Yinzhou, Ningbo, China. Teamed with Wang Hao, Wang Yue, Zhou Jianchao and Ni Hua, Bu led the Chinese team to victory with 4/5 and a 2928 performance rating. 2012-present In June 2012, Bu won the 3rd Hainan Danzhou GM tournament on tiebreak over Ni Hua and this victory earned him the last spot in the Chinese team for the Istanbul Chess Olympiad. In August 2012, he won for the second time the World University Chess Championship, held in Guimarães, Portugal, with 8/9 (+7−0=2). In July 2014, he