Doeberl Cup held in Canberra, Australia. Li won this latter event again in 2013. At the 2011 Tata Steel B tournament he scored 6/13, placing ninth. Li won the men's individual chess tournament of the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen with a score of 8.5/9, two points ahead of the field, including compatriots Wang Hao and Wang Yue. In October 2011, he won the Indonesia Open Chess Championship in Jakarta on tiebreak over Ganguly Surya Shekhar. Li took part in the Chess World Cup 2011, where he was eliminated in the first round by Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son. He tied for first with Yu Yangyi at the 2nd Indonesia Open Chess Championship in 2012, but placed second on tiebreak. In January 2013 Li Chao won the Boston Chess Congress and the 4th Annual Golden State Open in Concord, California. In May 2013, he won the Asian Chess Championship, which took place in Manila, and this achievement earned him the qualification for the Chess World Cup 2013. In the latter he defeated Evgeny Postny in the inaugural round to reach the second one, losing to Anish Giri. In 2014, he won the Reykjavik Open with 8.5/10. In March 2015, he won the 31st Cappelle-la-Grande Open. This success was followed by the victory at the 19th Neckar Open in Deizisau with a score of 8.5/9. In August 2015, he played a six-game match with Hungarian Grandmaster Peter Leko in Szeged, Hungary. He won the match by 4-2 (+2-0=4). Li played for the team "Siberia" (alongside Vladimir Kramnik, Levon Aronian, Alexander Grischuk, Wang Yue, Anton Korobov, Dmitry Kokarev and Dmitry Bocharov) which won the 2015 European Club Cup in Skopje. In February 2016, he won the Graz Open with 8/9. China Chess League Li Chao played for Beijing chess club in the China Chess League. In August 2015, Grandmaster Ian Rogers reported that Li Chao had been banned for more than a year from all Chinese teams and tournaments, resulting from a dispute with a sponsor of a Beijing club. Notable games Li Chao vs Wang Hao, World Junior Championship 2006, Scandinavian Defense: Panov Transfer (B01), 1-0 Li Chao vs Evgeny Alekseev, Russia vs China Match 2008, Spanish Game: Berlin Defense, l'Hermet Variation Berlin Wall Defense (C67), 1-0 Tu Hoang Thong vs Li Chao, 2008 Olympiad 2008, Queen's Pawn Game (A45), 0-1 See also Chess in China References External links 1989 births Living