Le Quang Liem
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Lê Quang Liêm is a leading Vietnam
ese chess
player. He was the Under-14 World Youth Chess Champion
in July 2005. He competed for Vietnam at the Chess Olympiads in 2006 and 2008.
August–September 2008, he won the 1st Dragon Capital Vietnam chess open with 7.0/9. In September 2009, he won the 4th Kolkata Open Chess Tournament ahead of 13 higher-rated players. In February 2010, he won the 9th Aeroflot Open
with 7/9, earning him an invitation to the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
. In the same year he tied for 1st-4th with Konstantin Chernyshov
, Evgeny Bareev
and Ernesto Inarkiev
in the Moscow Open.
He is currently the number-one ranked player in Vietnam.
From July 15 through the 25th, he took part in his first elite invitational tournament in Dortmund, in a field consisting of nine-time Dortmund champion and former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik
, world #6 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
, former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov
, 2004 World Chess Championship challenger Peter Leko
, and one-time Dortmund champion Arkadij Naiditsch
. Facing Kramnik with the black pieces in the opening round, Le held the former world champion to a draw, and after defeating the eventual winner Ponomariov in round 4, and Leko in round 5, Le finished with five consecutive draws to secure clear second place with 5.5/10 and a performance rating of 2776.
From August 28, 2010 to September 3, 2010, he participated in 1st Campomanes Memorial Cup Open in the Philippines. His final score was 7/9, a shared first place with GM Zhao Jun
of China. However, GM Le yielded the crown to GM Zhao via tiebreak score.
After this tournament GM Le gained a total of 6.8 Elo points
, which put him above 2700 points in the live rankings by 0.8.
From February 7, 2011 to February 18, 2011, he once again participated in Aeroflot Open
and successfully defended the title. His score was 6.5/9, a shared first place with GM Nikita Vitiugov
and GM Evgeny Tomashevsky
. He is the only player to have won Aeroflot Open
twice. His win automatically qualifies him for a return invitation to the Dortmund Invitational
, where he will compete in a field including Vladimir Kramnik
, Hikaru Nakamura
, and Ruslan Ponomariov
among others.
From May 10, 2011 to May 21, 2011, he was invited to play in the Elite Group of Capablanca Memorial
Tournament, a very strong field of players (FIDE category 19) including reigning champion GM Vassily Ivanchuk, Latin-America's number one GM Leinier Domínguez, Czech Republic's number one GM David Navara
, GM Lázaro Bruzón
of Cuba and GM Dmitry Andreikin
of Russia. After the final round defeat, his score was 6.5/10, a shared first place but ranked second after GM Ivanchuk via tiebreak score.
As of October 25, 2011, his Live Elo Rating score on 2700chess.com is 2714.4, 28th in world ranking, and ranked 3rd amongst Asian players after reigning World Champion GM Viswanathan Anand
and GM Wang Hao
.
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
ese chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
player. He was the Under-14 World Youth Chess Champion
World Youth Chess Championship
The World Youth Chess Championship is a chess competition for girls and boys under the age of 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18.The first predecessor of the youth championship was the Cadet Championship. It started off unofficially in 1974 in France for players under 18. The 1975 and 1976 editions were also...
in July 2005. He competed for Vietnam at the Chess Olympiads in 2006 and 2008.
August–September 2008, he won the 1st Dragon Capital Vietnam chess open with 7.0/9. In September 2009, he won the 4th Kolkata Open Chess Tournament ahead of 13 higher-rated players. In February 2010, he won the 9th Aeroflot Open
Aeroflot Open
The Aeroflot Open is an annual open chess tournament played in Moscow and sponsored by the airline Aeroflot. It was established in 2002 and quickly grew to be the strongest open tournament. The first event had around 80 grandmasters, while in the second event 150 grandmasters participated...
with 7/9, earning him an invitation to the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting is an elite chess tournament held every summer in Dortmund, Germany.Dortmund is an invite-only event, and only the strongest grandmasters are invited...
. In the same year he tied for 1st-4th with Konstantin Chernyshov
Konstantin Chernyshov
Konstantin Chernyshov is a Russian chess grandmaster .In 2008 he tied for 1st-8th with Vugar Gashimov, David Arutinian, Yuriy Kryvoruchko, Sergey Fedorchuk, Andrei Deviatkin, Vasilios Kotronias and Erwin L'Ami in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open Tournament...
, Evgeny Bareev
Evgeny Bareev
Evgeny Bareev is a Russian chess Grandmaster and chess coach. In October 2003, he was in fourth place in the world rankings, with an Elo rating of 2739....
and Ernesto Inarkiev
Ernesto Inarkiev
Ernesto Inarkiev is a Russian chess Grandmaster. He was named after Ernesto "Che" Guevara. In 2006 he came third in the 59th Russian Chess Championship Superfinal....
in the Moscow Open.
He is currently the number-one ranked player in Vietnam.
From July 15 through the 25th, he took part in his first elite invitational tournament in Dortmund, in a field consisting of nine-time Dortmund champion and former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik
Vladimir Kramnik
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2007...
, world #6 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Shakhriyar Hamid oglu Mammadyarov , also known for his Shah nickname, is a chess Grandmaster. On the September 2010 FIDE rating list he was ranked number nine in the world with an Elo rating of 2756....
, former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov
Ruslan Ponomariov
Ruslan Olegovich Ponomariov is a Ukrainian chess player and former FIDE World Champion.-Early career:Ponomariov was born in Horlivka in Ukraine. In 1994 he placed third in the World Under-12 Championship at the age of ten. In 1996 he won the European Under-18 Championship at the age of just...
, 2004 World Chess Championship challenger Peter Leko
Péter Lékó
On the way to winning the prestigious Corus chess tournament in 2005, Lékó defeated Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand with the black pieces. The moves were:...
, and one-time Dortmund champion Arkadij Naiditsch
Arkadij Naiditsch
Arkadij Naiditsch is a German chess Grandmaster who was the clear winner of the Dortmund Sparkassen 2005 Tournament, ahead of higher-rated and well-known players such as Loek Van Wely, Veselin Topalov, Peter Svidler, Vladimir Kramnik, Michael Adams, and Peter Leko...
. Facing Kramnik with the black pieces in the opening round, Le held the former world champion to a draw, and after defeating the eventual winner Ponomariov in round 4, and Leko in round 5, Le finished with five consecutive draws to secure clear second place with 5.5/10 and a performance rating of 2776.
From August 28, 2010 to September 3, 2010, he participated in 1st Campomanes Memorial Cup Open in the Philippines. His final score was 7/9, a shared first place with GM Zhao Jun
Zhao Jun
Zhao Jun is a Chinese chess Grandmaster. In 2004, he became China's 19th Grandmaster at the age of 17.Zhao Jun plays for Shandong chess club in the China Chess League . He is ranked 11th in China ....
of China. However, GM Le yielded the crown to GM Zhao via tiebreak score.
After this tournament GM Le gained a total of 6.8 Elo points
Elo rating system
The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-born American physics professor....
, which put him above 2700 points in the live rankings by 0.8.
From February 7, 2011 to February 18, 2011, he once again participated in Aeroflot Open
Aeroflot Open
The Aeroflot Open is an annual open chess tournament played in Moscow and sponsored by the airline Aeroflot. It was established in 2002 and quickly grew to be the strongest open tournament. The first event had around 80 grandmasters, while in the second event 150 grandmasters participated...
and successfully defended the title. His score was 6.5/9, a shared first place with GM Nikita Vitiugov
Nikita Vitiugov
Nikita Kirillovich Vitiugov is a Russian chess grandmaster .Vitiugov is 2006 World Junior Chess Vice-Champion and participant of the Russian Chess Championship . He was a member of the gold-medal-winning Russian team at the World Team Chess Championship 2009 in Bursa...
and GM Evgeny Tomashevsky
Evgeny Tomashevsky
Evgeny Tomashevsky is a Russian chess Grandmaster. In 2001 he won the U18 Russian championship in Rybinsk with 9/10 and in 2004 he became second in the U18 World Youth Chess Championship. In 2007 he became second in the Aeroflot Open....
. He is the only player to have won Aeroflot Open
Aeroflot Open
The Aeroflot Open is an annual open chess tournament played in Moscow and sponsored by the airline Aeroflot. It was established in 2002 and quickly grew to be the strongest open tournament. The first event had around 80 grandmasters, while in the second event 150 grandmasters participated...
twice. His win automatically qualifies him for a return invitation to the Dortmund Invitational
Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting is an elite chess tournament held every summer in Dortmund, Germany.Dortmund is an invite-only event, and only the strongest grandmasters are invited...
, where he will compete in a field including Vladimir Kramnik
Vladimir Kramnik
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2007...
, Hikaru Nakamura
Hikaru Nakamura
Hikaru Nakamura is an American chess Grandmaster . He has been ranked among the top six players in the world by FIDE....
, and Ruslan Ponomariov
Ruslan Ponomariov
Ruslan Olegovich Ponomariov is a Ukrainian chess player and former FIDE World Champion.-Early career:Ponomariov was born in Horlivka in Ukraine. In 1994 he placed third in the World Under-12 Championship at the age of ten. In 1996 he won the European Under-18 Championship at the age of just...
among others.
From May 10, 2011 to May 21, 2011, he was invited to play in the Elite Group of Capablanca Memorial
Capablanca Memorial
The Capablanca Memorial is a chess tournament that has been held annually in Cuba since 1962.José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera was a famous Cuban chess master who was World Champion from 1921 to 1927. The Capablanca Memorial became the best paid tournament in the world...
Tournament, a very strong field of players (FIDE category 19) including reigning champion GM Vassily Ivanchuk, Latin-America's number one GM Leinier Domínguez, Czech Republic's number one GM David Navara
David Navara
David Navara is a chess Grandmaster from Czech Republic. On the April 2007 FIDE rating list he was ranked number 14 in the world with an Elo rating of 2720, making him the highest ranked Czech player....
, GM Lázaro Bruzón
Lázaro Bruzón
Lázaro Bruzón Batista is a chess grandmaster from Cuba. On the January 2011 FIDE list his Elo rating is 2686. Bruzón was the 2000 World Junior Chess Champion. In 2004 he finished first at the XII Torneo "Guillermo Garcia" in Memoriam in Villa Clara...
of Cuba and GM Dmitry Andreikin
Dmitry Andreikin
Dmitry Andreikin is a Russian chess grandmaster . He won the 2010 World Junior Chess Championship.-Chess career:He tied for 1st–3rd with Konstantin Chernyshov and Alexei Kornev at Lipetsk 2006...
of Russia. After the final round defeat, his score was 6.5/10, a shared first place but ranked second after GM Ivanchuk via tiebreak score.
As of October 25, 2011, his Live Elo Rating score on 2700chess.com is 2714.4, 28th in world ranking, and ranked 3rd amongst Asian players after reigning World Champion GM Viswanathan Anand
Viswanathan Anand
V. Anand or Anand Viswanathan, usually referred as Viswanathan Anand, is an Indian chess Grandmaster, the current World Chess Champion, and currently second highest rated player in the world....
and GM Wang Hao
Wang Hao
Wang Hao, also Hao Wang was a Chinese American logician, philosopher and mathematician.Born in Jinan, Shandong, in the Republic of China , Wang received his early education in China. After obtaining a B.Sc. degree in mathematics from the National Southwestern Associated University in 1943 and an M.A...
.