Kammala wannan jumla: Bwalya ya ci 7/9 mai ban sha'awa a
2012 Chess Olympiad, kuma ya bi wannan ta hanyar cin nasarar 4.3 Zonal tare da 8/9, wanda ya ba shi taken Jagora na Duniya da kuma damar taka rawa a gasar cin kofin duniya ta Chess 2013. Ya zama dan Zambiya na uku da ya cancanci zuwa gasar cin kofin duniya bayan GM Amon Simutowe da IM Stanley Chumfwa, inda ya yi rashin nasara a hannun Vladimir Kramnik a zagaye na farko.