Lu Shanglei

Lu Shanglei is a Chinese chess grandmaster, who in 2011 was the highest-rated under-16 chess player in Asia and the fifth highest-rated chess player in that age group in the world. In October 2011 he gained the Grandmaster title by gaining two GM norms. His first GM norm was in May 2011 when he scored 6/9 and finished 7th at the 2011 Asian Individual Championships in Mashhad, Iran, coming ahead of 22 grandmasters and defeating Ehsan Ghaem Maghami, Susanto Megaranto and Baskaran Adhiban. In June 2011 he gained his second norm at the 2nd Chairman Prospero A. Pichay tournament in the Subic Bay Freeport Zone, Philippines with wins against Rogelio Antonio Jr and Eugenio Torre. Lu plays for the Zhejiang team in Chinese Chess Team Championships. In August 2011, Lu came 2nd behind GM Li Shilong at the 8th Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysia Open 2011. In October 2014 at the World Junior Chess Championship in Pune, India, he won the championship overall with a half point lead near his closest rivals at 9.5/13. He finished with 10/13, beat top seeds Vladimir Fedoseev, Karen H. Grigoryan and Benjamin Bok and also qualified for the Chess World Cup to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan.