Lê Quang Liêm

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Le Quang Liem.jpg
Lê Quang Liêm at the
Junior World Championship 2008 in Gaziantep
Association VietnamVietnam Vietnam
Born March 13, 1991
Ho Chi Minh City
title International Master (2006)
Grand Master (2006)
Current  Elo rating 2709 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2739 (August 2017)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Lê Quang Liêm (born March 13, 1991 in Ho Chi Minh City ) is a Vietnamese grandmaster who is one of the world's top chess players and who won the world championship in blitz chess in 2013.

Life

His first contact with chess was when his brother, two years older than him, taught him it. Lê Quang Liêm has been a professional chess player since he finished school. He was trained temporarily by Yevgeny Bareev .

successes

Individual championships

Lê Quang Liêm, 2010 in Dortmund

Internationally one soon became aware of Lê Quang Liêm. At the U10 Youth World Cup in 2001 in Oropesa del Mar, the then still unknown finished second with the winner Tamás Fodor, tied with points . Noteworthy for his age was his balanced result (4.5 points from 9 games) at the zone tournament in Ho Chi Minh City in June 2003. At the youth world championship in the U12 category in Kallithea (Chalkidiki) in 2003, he again achieved second place . In 2004 he was Asian U16 champion in Tehran . He finally won the U14 World Cup in Belfort in 2005 by half a point. At the Southeast Asian Games in Manila in 2005 , he won a silver medal in the individual competition. In January 2007 he won a zone tournament on the Vietnamese island of Phu Quốc . At the Chess World Cup 2007 in Khanty-Mansiysk he was eliminated in the first round with 0.5: 1.5 against Andrij Wolokitin . He won the Vietnamese individual championship for the first time in 2007, held this year in the province of Thừa Thiên-Huế. In August 2008 he won the 1st Dragon Capital Vietnamese Chess Open in Vũng Tau . For the Chess World Cup 2009 he was qualified on his fifth place at the Asian individual championship in May 2009 in Subic , but retired there in the first round with 1.5: 3.5 against Vladislav Tkachiev . In September 2009 he won the Kolkata Open and the Zhejiang Lishui Xingqiu Open in Lishui and in December 2009 the 2nd Vietnamese Dragon Capital Chess Open in Ho Chi Minh City. In February 2010 he was the sole first at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow with 7 points from 9 games and thus qualified for the Dortmund Chess Days . Here he was able to take a sensational second place, behind Ruslan Ponomarjow and in front of Wladimir Kramnik . At the Asian Championships in November 2010 in Guangzhou , he finished second in the individual competition behind Rustam Kasimjanov . In February 2011 he was able to repeat his success at the Aeroflot Open with 6.5 points from 9 games. He took part in the 2011 World Chess Cup . There he reached the third round by winning against Susanto Megaranto and Boris Gratschow , in which he failed to Lázaro Bruzón . In June 2013 he won the world championship in blitz chess in Khanty-Mansiysk . In August 2013 he took part in the 2013 World Chess Cup in Tromsø . He reached the round of 16 by winning against Oliver Barbosa , Francisco Vallejo Pons and Alexander Grishchuk , in which he failed to Pyotr Swidler . At the Asian individual championships in Tashkent in June 2016 , he finished second with half a point behind SP Sethuraman . In July 2019 he won the World Open in Philadelphia .

National team

Lê Quang Liêm, who took part in the 2002 Youth Olympics in Kuala Lumpur with the Vietnamese U16 national team at the age of eleven , has been part of the Vietnamese national team since 2005. With this he took part in the Chess Olympiads 2006 in Turin (on the fourth board), 2008 in Dresden (on the second board), 2010 in Chanty-Mansiysk , 2012 in Istanbul and the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromsø (both on the first board). He was very successful at Asian team championships in which he participated in 2005, 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2014. With the team he came second in 2005 and 2009, and third in 2008, 2012 and 2014. In the individual ranking he achieved the best result on the fourth board in 2005, on the second board in 2008 and on the first board in 2009, and the second-best result on the first board in 2012 and 2014. At the Southeast Asian Games in 2005, he won team gold in both rapid and regular time. Lê Quang Liêm also took part in the chess competitions of the 2010 Asian Games and the 2007 and 2009 Asian Indoor Games.

societies

He played club chess in the 2010/11 season in the German Chess League for Werder Bremen . In France he played for Évry Grand Roque in 2011 and 2012 , in China in 2011, 2012 and 2017 for Qingdao Yucai , and in 2019 for Jiangsu . In the Russian team championship in 2013 he played for ShSM Our Hopes Moscow . He won the United States Chess League in 2014 with the St. Louis Arch Bishops .

Title and rating

Since October 2006 he has held the title of chess grandmaster . He achieved the standards for this at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games, the 2006 Chess Olympiad and a 1st Saturday GM tournament in Budapest in July 2006. The standards were submitted for September 2006, but he had not reached the required Elo rating until October. He was awarded the title of International Master in April 2006. He had achieved the norms for this at three First Saturday tournaments in Budapest between August and October 2005.

Greatest successes

Web links

Commons : Lê Quang Liêm  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait on the website of the Dortmund Chess Days 2010 ( memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Youth World Cup 2001 in The Week in Chess # 365 from November 5, 2001 (English)
  3. ↑ Youth World Championship 2003 in The Week in Chess # 469 from November 3, 2003 (English)
  4. ↑ U14 World Cup 2005 on chessgames.com (English)
  5. ↑ Chess World Cup 2007 (English)
  6. ↑ Vietnamese Individual Championship 2007 on fide.com (English)
  7. ↑ Asian Individual Championship 2009 on chessdom.com (English)
  8. ↑ Quang Liem Le wins Aeroflot Open , February 18, 2010
  9. ↑ Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2010 - 38th International Dortmund Chess Days, July 15 to 25, 2010 in Dortmund
  10. ↑ Le wins the Aeroflot Open again . Article on chessbase.de from February 17, 2011
  11. ↑ Asian Individual Men Chess Championship 2016 , final result on chess-results.com
  12. ↑ Lê Quang Liêms results at the U16 Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  13. ↑ Lê Quang Liêms results at Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  14. ↑ Results of the Vietnamese team at the 2014 Chess Olympiad on chess-results.com
  15. ↑ Lê Quang Liêms results at the Asian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  16. ↑ Lê Quang Liêms results at the Asian Games ( Memento from September 28, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) on olimpbase.org (English)
  17. ↑ Lê Quang Liêms results at indoor Asian games on olimpbase.org (English)
  18. ↑ Lê Quang Liêms results at Russian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  19. ↑ GM application (English)
  20. ↑ IM application (English)
personal data
SURNAME Lê Quang Liêm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Le, Quang Liem (FIDE)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vietnamese chess grandmaster
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Ho Chi Minh City