GM Li Chao won the O2C Doeberl Cup 2013 which was held on 28 March – 1 April at the Olympus Room of the Hellenic Club of Canberra in Australia.
The Chinese arrived as rating favorite and got clear first place with 7.5/9 points, despite a big setback on the 5th round, when he lost against Hungarian GM Attila Czebe. Li Chao followed with four straight wins to take the $4,000 first prize. He repeated the success from 2010 when he won the same event.
Czech GM Jiri Stocek and Dutch GM Loek van Wely both finished with 7/9. Stocek got the second place on tiebreaks.
77 players signed up to participate in the Premier Event, including 11 GMs and 10 IMs.
Li Chao
Final Standings:
| 1 | GM | Li Chao | 2686 | 7.5 |
| 2 | GM | Stocek Jiri | 2557 | 7.0 |
| 3 | GM | Van Wely Loek | 2684 | 7.0 |
| 4 | GM | Sethuraman S.P. | 2532 | 6.5 |
| 5 | GM | Horvath Adam | 2509 | 6.5 |
| 6 | IM | Ly Moulthun | 2428 | 6.5 |
| 7 | GM | Vajda Levente | 2632 | 6.0 |
| 8 | — | Li Zuhao Luke | 2285 | 6.0 |
| 9 | GM | Zhao Zong-Yuan | 2537 | 6.0 |
| 10 | — | Smirnov Anton | 2194 | 5.5 |
| 11 | IM | Lane Gary W. | 2412 | 5.5 |
| 12 | GM | Johansen Darryl K. | 2430 | 5.5 |
| 13 | — | Lei Tingjie | 2232 | 5.5 |
| 14 | FM | Cheng Bobby | 2425 | 5.5 |
| 15 | FM | Wallis Christopher | 2261 | 5.5 |
| 16 | WFM | Otgonjargal Sengerav | 2171 | 5.5 |
| 17 | FM | Stojic Dusan | 2228 | 5.5 |
| 18 | IM | Illingworth Max | 2423 | 5.5 |
| 19 | — | Garner David J | 2150 | 5.5 |
| 20 | GM | Varga Zoltan | 2446 | 5.5 |
| 21 | IM | Akshat Khamparia | 2383 | 5.5 |
| 22 | IM | Solomon Stephen J. | 2390 | 5.0 |
| 23 | GM | Czebe Attila | 2492 | 5.0 |
| 24 | FM | Dragicevic Domagoj | 2204 | 5.0 |
| 25 | GM | Laxman R.R. | 2435 | 5.0 |
| 26 | IM | Palit Somak | 2442 | 5.0 |
| 27 | — | Dale Ari | 2225 | 5.0 |
| 28 | IM | Morris James | 2388 | 5.0 |
| 29 | — | Rishi Sardana | 2232 | 5.0 |
| 30 | — | Schon Eugene | 2169 | 5.0 |
| 31 | IM | Stany G.A. | 2449 | 5.0 |
| 32 | — | Zelesco Karl | 2148 | 5.0 |
| 33 | — | Yin Wenlin | 1908 | 5.0 |
| 34 | — | Tan Justin | 2269 | 4.5 |
| 35 | IM | Brown Andrew | 2295 | 4.5 |
| 36 | — | Farrell Roger S | 2188 | 4.5 |
| 37 | — | Chan Michael | 1948 | 4.5 |
| 38 | FM | Ambrus Endre | 2324 | 4.5 |
| 39 | — | Bishop Joshua | 1861 | 4.5 |
| 40 | — | Beaumont David | 2095 | 4.5 |
| 41 | CM | Goundar Sanmogam | 1936 | 4.5 |
| 42 | — | Liu Yi | 2158 | 4.0 |
| 43 | FM | Ikeda Junta | 2362 | 4.0 |
| 44 | — | Lester George E | 2012 | 4.0 |
| 45 | — | Zulfic Fedja | 2142 | 4.0 |
| 46 | — | Louie Ryan | 1861 | 4.0 |
| 47 | — | Wright Neil | 2182 | 4.0 |
| 48 | — | Nemeth John | 2100 | 4.0 |
| 49 | — | Michaille Laurent | 2093 | 4.0 |
| 50 | — | Williams Bruce | 2007 | 4.0 |
| 51 | — | Ferozkohi Ihsan | 2107 | 4.0 |
| 52 | — | Watson James | 2111 | 4.0 |
| 53 | — | Deen-Cowell Nicholas | 1889 | 3.5 |
| 54 | — | Wei Michael | 2104 | 3.5 |
| 55 | — | Mandla Blair | 2123 | 3.5 |
| 56 | — | Stojic Svetozar | 1993 | 3.5 |
| 57 | — | Puccini Jack | 1886 | 3.5 |
| 58 | WIM | Guo Emma | 2092 | 3.5 |
| 59 | — | Loh Zachary | 1993 | 3.0 |
| 60 | — | Muller Jonas | 2039 | 3.0 |
| 61 | — | McNamara Gary | 2135 | 3.0 |
| 62 | — | Sengstock Steven | 1804 | 3.0 |
| 63 | — | Davis Tony J | 1936 | 3.0 |
| 64 | — | Safarian Alek | 2023 | 3.0 |
| 65 | — | Bennett Matthew | 1833 | 3.0 |
| 66 | — | Flitney Adrian | 1955 | 2.5 |
| 67 | — | Kethro Michael | 1831 | 2.5 |
| 68 | — | Chew Lee Max | 1841 | 2.5 |
| 69 | — | Rowlison Colin N | 1949 | 1.5 |
| 70 | — | Wyss Felix | 1813 | 1.5 |
| 71 | — | Jaime Joshua Fria(W) | 1980 | 0.0 |
| 72 | IM | Udeshi Aditya (W) | 2416 | 0.0 |
| 73 | — | Thornton Giovanni(W) | 2138 | 0.0 |
| 74 | FM | Hacche David (W) | 2071 | 0.0 |
| 75 | — | Jarek Katherine (W) | 2036 | 0.0 |
| 76 | — | Dela Cruz Richard(W) | 2125 | 0.0 |
| 77 | — | Chernih Nick (W) | 2080 | 0.0 |
