Lê Quang Liêm

Lê Quang Liem ( born March 13, 1991 Ho Chi Minh City) is a Vietnamese grandmaster who belongs to the advanced world leaders in the sport of chess.

Life

The first contact with chess he had, as it was taught to him by his older brother. Since Lê Quang Liem has finished school, he is a professional chess player. He is trained by Yevgeny Bareev. Chess club he played in the 2010/11 season in the chess Bundesliga for Werder Bremen. In France, since 2011 he plays for Evry Grand Roque, in China Qingdao Yucai.

Achievements

Individual Championships

International one was soon Lê Quang Liem attention. In the U10 World Youth Championship 2001 in Oropesa del Mar, the then unknown finished level on points with the winner Tamás Fodor second place. Remarkable 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. During the World Youth Championship in the category U12 in Kallithea (Chalkidiki ) In 2003 he again reached the second place. In 2004 he was Asian in Tehran U16 champion. The U14 World Championships in Belfort in 2005 he finally won with a half -point lead. In the Southeast Asia 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 Phú Quốc. In the World Chess Cup 2007 in Khanty-Mansiysk, he retired in the first round with 0.5:1.5 against Andriy Volokitin. The Vietnamese individual championship he won for the first time in 2007, this year held in the province of Thua Thien - Hue. In August 2008, he won the 1st Dragon Capital Chess Open in Vietnamese Vung Tau. For the Chess World Cup 2009, he was qualified by his fifth place finish at the Asian Individual Championship in May 2009 in Subic, left there, however, in the first round with 1,5:3,5 against Vladislav Tkachiev from. In September 2009 he won the Kolkata Open and the Zhejiang Lishui Xingqiu Open in Lishui and in December 2009 the second Vietnamese Dragon Capital Chess Open in Ho Chi Minh City. In February 2010, he was with 7 points from 9 games at Aeroflot Open sole first in Moscow and thus qualified for the Dortmund Chess Days. Here he could prove a sensational second place, behind Ruslan Ponomariov and ahead of Vladimir Kramnik. In the Asian Championships in Guangzhou in November 2010 he finished in second place in the individual competition behind Rustam Kasimjanov. In February 2011 he was able to repeat from 9 games his success at the Aeroflot Open with 6.5 points. In June 2013 he won in Khanty-Mansiysk the world championship in blitz chess.

National

With the Vietnamese U16 national team, he participated in the Youth Olympic Games 2002 in Kuala Lumpur was eleven years old. In the Asian Team Championship in 2005 in Isfahan, this time with the adults, he received an individual gold medal for his score of 8.5 points over 10 games on the fourth board while the team took second place behind India. In the Southeast Asia Games in 2005 he won team gold in both the rapid chess as well as with regular playing time. With the Vietnamese national team, he participated in four Chess Olympiads: 2006 in Turin he had, 15 - year, on the fourth board a score of 9.5 out of 13 with an Elo performance of 2602 with victories including against Darcy Lima, Andrej Schyhalka and Gennady Timoščenko. In Dresden in 2008, he played on the second board. With 8 out of 13 it reached an Elo performance of 2695 with victories against, among others, Henrik Danielsen and Jan Smeets and drawn games against Sergei Karjakin, among other things, Lázaro Bruzón and Ni Hua. In the ninth place of the Vietnamese, he lost only against Nigel Short. He received a renewed individual gold medal at the Asian Team Championship 2008 in Visakhapatnam for his score of 5 out of 7 on the second board ( Elo performance 2685 ). Vietnam reached third place. In the Chess Olympiads 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk and 2012 in Istanbul, he played for Vietnam on top board.

Title and rating

Since October 2006 he has the title of chess grandmaster. The standards for this purpose he scored for the Southeast Asia Games 2005, the Chess Olympiad of 2006 and 1st Saturday GM Tournament in Budapest in July 2006., Only four weeks before his GM offering to it the title of International Master had been awarded. The standards for this purpose he had obtained from three First Saturday tournaments in Budapest between August and October 2005.