Lu Shanglei (; born 10 July 1995) is a Chinese

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grandmaster and 2014 World Junior Chess Champion.

Career

In 2010, Lu played on the Chinese team (alongside Yu Yangyi, Wang Chen, and

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) that won the 5th Vladimir Dvorkovich Cup, a junior team competition held in

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. He was awarded by

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the title Grandmaster (GM) in October 2011. He achieved the norms required for the title in the same year at the Asian Individual Championship in

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, Iran, and the 2nd Chairman Prospero A. Pichay Cup in the

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, Philippines. In August 2011, Lu came second, behind GM

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, at the 8th

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Malaysia Open in

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. The following year, he won the 1st Grand Europe Open in

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, Bulgaria. In 2013, he played for the Chinese men's team in the China-USA Chess Summit in

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, China. The match was won by the Chinese. In June 2014, at the World

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Championships in

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, Lu was the only one who won a game against the eventual winner,

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, in the blitz event. In October 2014, Lu won the

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, India with a score of 10/13 points. Thanks to this victory he qualified for the 2015

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. In the following month, he took part in the 8th Kings Tournament in

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, Romania, a match between teams China and Romania held with the

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. He was the top scorer in the inaugural blitz tournament with 6.5/9 points, and helped the Chinese team (made up of Lu,

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, Wang Yue, and

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) to win the match scoring 3/4 in the classical encounter. In April 2015, he finished fourth at the

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, and second at the Aeroflot blitz tournament. In June 2015, he won two blitz tournaments in Bulgaria, the Golden Sands Blitz and the

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Blitz, 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. 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

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in the third round after the first set of rapid tiebreaker games. In 2016, Lu Shanglei won the Asian Blitz Championship in

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and the Serbian Open. In 2019, he won the Chinese Blitz Championship. Lu plays for the

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team in the

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References

External links

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Lu Shanglei
chess games at 365Chess.com * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lu, Shanglei 1995 births Living people Chess grandmasters World Junior Chess Champions Chess players from Liaoning Sportspeople from Shenyang