in July 2002. Adding to his victories in 1999, he won the German Open. 2000-2007 In 2000 in Germany he won in his first appearance the International Neckar Open in Deizisau. Also in 2000, Bu defeated the Azerbaijani talent Teimour Radjabov 6½-1½ 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 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 May 2000, Bu made his first appearance in a United States Chess Federation-rated tournament at the New York Open in New York City. Although one of the favorites to win the tournament, he lost in the first round to American life master Shearwood McClelland III in an upset, before rallying to finish with 5½/9. In December 2003, Bu won the 10th Aceimar International Open in Mondariz with 7½/9. In November 2004, he became National Chess Champion of China in Lanzhou with a score of 9/11. In 2006 Bu won the 9th World University Chess Championship in Lagos, Nigeria on tiebreak over Ni Hua, after they both scored 7½ /9. In July 2007, Bu won the Canadian Open Chess Championship in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. In October 2007, he won the Blindfold Chess World Cup in Bilbao by a 1½ point margin, defeating strong Grandmasters Veselin Topalov, Magnus Carlsen, Pendyala Harikrishna, Judit Polgár and Sergey Karjakin in the process. 2008 In January 2008, at the 6th Gibtelecom Chess Festival in Gibraltar, Bu came joint first scoring 8/10 (+7−1=2; Elo performance 2834) but lost on the two game blitz play-off tie-break to Hikaru Nakamura. 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 6½/10 (+3−0=7) and a performance rating of 2771. In his super-tournament debut in Sofia, Bulgaria at the Grand Slam M-Tel Masters (category 20) tournament on May 7–18, 2008, he came fifth out of six players (Levon Aronian, Ivan Cheparinov, Vassily Ivanchuk, Teimour Radjabov, Veselin Topalov) having scored 3/10 (+1−5=4; Elo performance 2594). He competed at the