Le Quang Liem
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| Full name | Lê Quang Liêm |
| Country |  Vietnam |
| Born | March 13, 1991 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2714 (January 2012) (No. 29 in the January 2012 FIDE World Rankings) |
| Peak rating | 2717 (September 2011) |
Lê Quang Liêm (born 1991) is a leading Vietnamese chess player. He was the Under-14 World Youth Chess Champion in July 2005. He competed for Vietnam at the Chess Olympiads in 2006, 2008 and 2010.[1] As of the January 2012 FIDE rankings, he was the 29th ranked active player in the world. [2]
August–September 2008, he won the 1st Dragon Capital Vietnam chess open with 7.0/9.[3] In September 2009, he won the 4th Kolkata Open Chess Tournament ahead of 13 higher-rated players.[4] In February 2010, he won the 9th Aeroflot Open with 7/9, earning him an invitation to the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting.[5] In the same year he tied for 1st-4th with Konstantin Chernyshov, Evgeny Bareev and Ernesto Inarkiev in the Moscow Open.[6]
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.[7] 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,[8] 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.[9] 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.
[edit] Notable tournament results
- 2005 World Championship (U14), Belfort (classical) 1st 9/11
- 2009 Kolkata Open (classical) 1st 8/10
- 2010 Aeroflot Open (classical) 1st 7/9
- 2010 Dortmund (classical) 2nd 5½/10
- 2010 Campomanes Memorial (classical) 2nd 7/9
- 2011 Aeroflot Open (classical) 1st 6½/9
- 2011 Capablanca (classical) 2nd 6½/10
- 2011 Dortmund (classical) 2nd 5½/10
- 2011 SPICE Cup (classical) 1st 17/10 (football score system)
[edit] References
- ^ "Men's Chess Olympiads: Lê Quang Liêm". OlimpBase. http://www.olimpbase.org/players/om4uyokd.html. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
- ^ "World Chess Federation top 100 players". http://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
- ^ "1st Dragon Capital Vietnam chess open". ChessResults.com. 2008-09-01. http://chess-results.com/?tnr=15291&redir=J&lan=1. Retrieved 2009-07-08.
- ^ "4th Kolkata Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament 2009". ChessResults.com. 2009-09-10. http://chess-results.com/tnr24974.aspx?lan=1. Retrieved 2009-09-17.
- ^ "Aeroflot Open – Le Quang Liem victorious". ChessBase. 2010-02-18. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6136. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
- ^ "Chernyshov wins Moscow Open 2010". ChessBase. 2010-02-08. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6114. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
- ^ The Week in Chess: Dortmund 2010
- ^ Dortmund 2010 Round 4
- ^ Chess-results.com: Campomanes Memorial Cup Open
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Lê Quang Liêm |
- Le Quang Liem player profile at ChessGames.com
- Interview with GM Le Quang Liem
