Li Chao (chess player) Li Chao (chess player) Li Chao (; born 21 April 1989 in Taiyuan, Shanxi) is a Chinese chess Grandmaster and Asian champion in 2013. In 2007, he became China's 23rd Grandmaster at the age of 18. He has been a second/assistant for fellow Chinese chess Grandmaster Wang Yue on several occasions; the two are good friends having known each other since they were children. In chess circles he is sometimes known as "Li Chao b" since there is a second Chinese chess player named Li Chao. Li Chao started to play chess at the age of six. In 2005 he
Modern Chess (chess variant) Modern Chess (chess variant) Modern Chess is a chess variant played on a 9×9 board. The game was invented by Gabriel Vicente Maura in 1968. Besides the usual set of chess pieces, each player has an additional piece with a corresponding pawn: The first match was played in Madrid at Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando's cafe on March 18, 1968. The players were Gabriel Vicente Maura himself (White), and Bonifacio Pedraz Cabezas (Black). The starting setup is as shown. All the standard rules of chess apply, along with the following special rules: In response to criticism that bishops