Career
As of March 2016, he is the highest blitz rated Chinese player with 2780. He scored 12 points out of 14 games on board three. He was awarded the grandmaster (General Motors) title in October 2011.
He gained his first General Motors norm in May 2011, at the Asian Individual Championship in Mashhad, Iran, where he scored 6 points out of 9 games, finishing equal fourth (seventh on countback) and coming ahead of 22 grandmasters, among them he defeated Ehsan Ghaem Maghami, Susanto Megaranto and Baskaran Adhiban.
As coming from a continental championship, it was a 20-game norm. In June 2011, he gained his final norm at the 2nd Chairman Prospero A. Pichay Cup in the Subic Bay Freeport Zone, Philippines with wins against Rogelio Antonio Junior. and Eugenio Torre.
In August 2011, Lu came second behind General Motors Li Shilong at the 8th Dato" Arthur Tan Malaysia Open in Kuala Lumpur. In 2013, he played for the Chinese men"s team in the China-United States of America Chess Summit in Ningbo, China.
In June 2014, Lu took part in the World Rapid Chess Championship and in the World Blitz Chess Championship, both held in Dubai: in the latter he inflicted Magnus Carlsen"s only defeat of the event.
In April 2015, he placed fourth at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow and second at the Aeroflot blitz tournament. 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 Veselin Topalov in the third round after the first set of rapid tiebreaker games. Lu plays for the Zhejiang team in the China Chess League.
