Master profile
Xu Chao
徐超
- Games
- 358
- Years of the dated games
- 1997–2007
- Archive record
- 105W · 174D · 79L
National titles: Men's national individual champion: 2017
The player
徐超 (Xu Chao) was born in Wujiang, Suzhou, in 1981 and started playing at seven. He won the national youth championship in 1997 and joined the Jiangsu team in 1998. A top-sixteen finish at the 2001 national championship made him a master, and in 2017 he won the national individual championship.
In the archive his best results came as Black with the Same-Direction Cannons: 60.7% over 28 games. Against Jiang Chuan, his most frequent opponent, he did not win once in 13 games, with 5 draws and 8 losses.
His style was solid, and the game below shows how quickly that solid play could beat a former national champion.
In the archive
| As Red / as Black | 163 games as Red, 195 as Black |
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| Score | 57.1% as Red, 50.8% as Black |
| Most played systems | Central Cannon as Red (145 games) · Screen Horses as Black (44 games) |
| Best-scoring system | Same-Direction Cannons as Black: 60.7% over 28 games |
| Most frequent opponent | Jiang Chuan (13 games) |
| Longest game | 306 plies against Xie Yejian in 2007 |
Xu Chao - Xu Tianhong, 2007
2007 Yitai Cup National Individual Championship · 2007 · Xu Chao (red) vs Xu Tianhong (black)
Xu Chao of Jiangsu, who earned the grandmaster title and won the national championship in 2017, has Red against Xu Tianhong, a former national champion. The game lasts forty-three plies, which makes it one of the shortest wins among the games on the master profiles.
The first soldiers are traded on move eleven, the start of six captures in ten plies. When the exchanges stop, Red has won an elephant and Black a soldier, and all four chariots are still on the board. Xu Tianhong resigns soon after, so the game is decided in the opening and the early middlegame.
Red won · 22 moves
The starting position.
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