1. Bu Xiangzhi was a member of the gold medal-winning Chinese team at the 2015 World Team Chess Championship and at the 2018 Chess Olympiad.
13 Facts About Bu Xiangzhi
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Bu Xiangzhi began taking chess seriously at the age of nine years and received early training from then on.
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Bu Xiangzhi's first chess book was a translation of the famous My 60 Memorable Games by Bobby Fischer, a player Bu admires.
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Bu Xiangzhi was 13 years, 10 months, and 13 days old when he scored the final norm, at the time the youngest person to achieve that title.
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Bu Xiangzhi gave up the running status of the world's youngest grandmaster to Sergey Karjakin in July 2002.
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Bu Xiangzhi played first board in Turin, where the Chinese team finished in second place.
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Bu Xiangzhi won four games and drew eight, including his games against top Grandmasters Vladimir Kramnik, Viswanathan Anand and Levon Aronian.
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Bu Xiangzhi has played in two previous Chess Olympiads in 2002 and 2004, both on board four.
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Bu Xiangzhi was part of the team that won silver at the December 2006 Asian Games in Doha.
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Bu Xiangzhi won an individual bronze medal on board two as the team won gold at the 2008 15th Asian Team Chess Championship in Visakhapatnam.
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Bu Xiangzhi was in the team that won the 43rd Chess Olympiad in 2018; in this event, Bu won the individual bronze medal on board four.
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Bu Xiangzhi plays for Shandong chess club in the China Chess League.
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Bu Xiangzhi is married to Huang Qian, a chess player.