Li Shilong | |
Country: | China |
Birth Date: | 10 August 1977 |
Birth Place: | Guangzhou, China |
Grandmaster (2002) | |
Peakrating: | 2559 (January 2009) |
Fideid: | 8600678 |
Li Shilong (; born August 10, 1977)[1] is a Chinese chess Grandmaster. In 2002, he became China's 14th Grandmaster.
In 2005 at the 5th Asian Chess Championship in Hyderabad, India, he came second with 7.5/9 points behind Zhang Zhong. He has competed in numerous tournaments, including the Amsterdam tournament, Groningen Chess Festival, Corus tournament, Aeroflot Open, Noteboom Memorial, Cappelle-la-Grande Open and the Chinese Chess Championship, besides others.
In September 2008, Li won the 4th Prospero Pichay Cup in a field of eighteen grandmasters at the Duty Free Fiesta Mall in Parañaque. He scored 7½/9 with one point clear from the rest of the field.[2]
In 2011 he won the 8th IGB Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysia Open in Kuala Lumpur.[3]