LE QUANG LIEM (born Mar-13-1991, 34 years old) Vietnam [what is this?] FIDE Master (2003); IM (2006); GM (2006). U14 World Champion (2005); Asian Blitz Champion (2013); World Blitz Champion (2013); Asian Champion (2019) Lê Quang Liêm (known in the USA as Liem Le) was born in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam and learned chess at the age of 7. He earned his Grandmaster title in early July 2006 when he was 15 years and 3 months old. He has also been the world's number 1 Junior (U20). Consistently scoring well in international youth championships, he placed second in the World Youth Championship (U12) in Halkidiki, Greece in 2003, and then won the Under-16 Asian Championship in July 2004 in Iran, the Asian Youth Open U14 in December 2004, and the Under-14 World Youth Chess Championship staged in Belfort, France in July 2005. Lê Quang Liêm's results in subsequent international tournaments has also been consistent. After doing relatively well (=4) in the 3rd Singapore Masters International Open Tournament and the Aeroflot Open 2007 A2 (=6), in April 2007, he tied for first in the Vietnam Chess Championship 2007 with Anh Dung Nguyen, winning on countback. Following this, in May 2008, he tied for first in the 2nd Philippine International Open, in August/September 2008, he won the 1st Dragon Capital Vietnam Chess Open with 7.0/9 ahead of Zurab Azmaiparashvili and Wesley So who were equal second, and in October 2008 came in half a point behind the 5 joint winners of the World Youth Chess Championships 2008 - Open 18 held in Vung Tau, Vietnam. In 2009 he won the 2nd Vietnam Dragon Capital Chess Open 2009 with 8/9. Also in 2009, he won the 4th Kolkata Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament (2009) with 8/10 ahead of Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (defeating that player in their individual game), the Zhejiang Lishui Xingqiu Open with 7.5/9, and placed equal third in the 8th Asian Continental Individual Open Championship. In February 2010, Lê Quang Liêm tied for first in the Moscow Open (2010) with Konstantin Chernyshov, Evgeny Bareev, and Ernesto Inarkiev, with the first two mentioned taking the first and second places on countback. Immediately afterwards, he won the 9th Aeroflot Open (2010) with 7/9 and a 2872 performance rating, thereby attracting an invitation to Dortmund Sparkassen (2010). In March 2010, he won the Vietnam Chess Championship , and in April 2010, he took equal second behind Hua Ni at the 9th Asian Continental Men's Chess Championship held in the Philippines. In his inaugural top-flight tournament, Dortmund Sparkassen (2010), and with 5.5/10 and a 2775 performance rating, Lê took outright second place behind Ruslan Ponomariov and ahead of Vladimir Kramnik, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Arkadij Naiditsch, and Peter Leko. A few months later he came =1st (2nd on count back behind Jun Zhao) at the 1st Campomanes Memorial Cup Open with 7/9, and entered the 2700 club on the live rating list for the first time. 2010 finished with a poor showing in the Asian Games where he scored one draw in five rounds, losing 25 ELO. After a poor start in the Tata Steel Group B (2011), Lê regained some form and finished strongly to come =4th with +5 -3 =5 and a 2715 performance rating. He continued his good form by successfully defending the Aeroflot Open (2011), winning with 6.5/9 (+5 -1 =3) on tiebreak ahead of Evgeny Tomashevsky and Nikita Vitiugov his performance rating for the tournament was 2809. In May he scored equal first with Vasyl Ivanchuk (who won on tiebreaks) in the Capablanca Memorial (Elite) (2011) and in July he came outright second in the category 20 Dortmund Sparkassen (2011) with 5.5/10 (TPR 2770) behind Kramnik, repeating his 2010 success at the same tournament. In October 2011, Lê came =6th in the 1st Qinhuangdao Open Chess Tournament but then followed up by winning the SPICE Cup (2011) in the last round by winning a brilliant game against front runner Leinier Dominguez Perez, his final score being 6.5/10 (+4 -1 =5 for a TPR of 2753). Lê Quang Liêm competed for Vietnam at the Chess Olympiads in 2006 (board 4), 2008 (board 2), 2010 (board 1), 2012 (board 1) and 2014 (board 1). He also played in the World Cup (2007) and World Cup (2009), but on both occasions was knocked out in the first round by Andrei Volokitin and Vladislav Tkachiev respectively. Qualifying through his results in the 2011 Asian Continental championship, Lê has fared better at the World Cup (2011), defeating Indonesian GM Susanto Megaranto in the first round, and Russian GM Boris Grachev in the second round before being eliminated in the third round tiebreaker by Cuban GM Lazaro Bruzon Batista. 2012 began well for Lê, scoring 7/10 at Gibraltar Masters (2012), but then fared poorly at Aeroflot Open (2012), scoring 4/9 and shedding enough rating points to reduce his rating to below 2700. A strong showing at the 2nd HD Bank Cup Open in March 2012, where he scored 7.5/9 to place outright second behind Hua Ni, restored him temporarily to the 2700 club, but meagre performances in the early rounds of the Chinese League (2012) and in the Asian Continental Chess Championship (2012) (5.5/9) were not entirely redressed by good results in the Asian Nations Cup 2012 (6/8) and in the French Top 12 League (6.5/10). Consequently he sat just outside the 2700 club until a splendid performance for Vietnam at the Istanbul Olympiad (2012) in Istanbul, where he scored 8/10 (TPR 2787), coming in fifth on first board. He then came in =2nd with Ding Liren on 5.5/10 at the SPICE Cup (2012). Shortly after the end of the tournament, it was announced he would be the latest addition to the SPICE program at Webster University, commencing in the fall of 2013. (1) In November he competed in the Fujairah Tournament in the UAE, scoring a par-for-rating 6/9. 2013 started with a solid, if modest, 7/10 at the Gibraltar Masters (2013). In March he surged to an outright win in the HD Bank Open that was held in Ho Chi Minh City, with a score of 7.5/9 (+6 =3) and followed up with =2nd (4th on tiebreak) at the Asian Continental Championship 2013, thereby qualifying for the World Cup (2013) where beat Oliver Barbosa in the first round, Spanish #1 Francisco Vallejo Pons in the second round and Russian GM Alexander Grischuk in the third round. However, he was eliminated in the Round of 16 (fourth round) by Russian GM Peter Svidler in the rapid game tiebreaker. Le placed outright 4th at the World Rapid Championship (2013) with 10/15. He then went on to win the World Blitz Championship (2013) at the event with 20.5/30 points. He ushered out 2013 with a 5/6 performance to help his team, Webster University win the 2013 PanAmerican Intercollegiate Chess Championship. In March 2014, he placed =1st (3rd on tiebreak) at the HD Bank International Open. In May 2014, he played top board for Vietnam at the Asian Nations Cup, helping his team to win silver. In June he competed in the World Rapid Championship (2014) and the World Blitz Championship (2014). In the former he scored a respectable 9/15 without troubling the leader board, while in the latter he placed 4th with 14/21, behind Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura and Ian Nepomniachtchi. Since this his form lapsed during the Millionaire Chess Open (2014) (5.5/9) and the SPICE Open (6/9), both played in October 2014. His rapid skills however remain unimpaired: in September 2014 he made a 6/6 clean sweep of the 2014 Webster Rapid, his victims including Wesley So, Illya Nyzhnyk and Ray Robson. He finished the year by helping his team Webster University A, to win the annual Pan American Intercollegiate Team Championship. In 2015, he won Zonal 3.3 in March 2015, scoring 7.5/9, and thereby qualified for the World Cup (2015). The same month he won the 5th HDBank Cup 7.5/9. When the World Cup started in September 2015, Le defeated Vasif Durarbayli and Nikita Vitiugov in the first and second rounds, but lost to Wesley So in the first set of rapid game tiebreakers to be eliminated from the Cup. Le's highest rating to date was 2717 in September 2011 when he was ranked #25 in the world (his highest ranking to date), and #2 Junior in the world. He reached 2717 again in April 2013 when he was ranked #27. Since 2021 he has been director of the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence (SPICE), succeeding Polgar in that position after her retirement. (2) } Live rating: [ http://www.2700chess.com/ Weekly blog by Lê: http://tuoitrenews.vn/cmlink/tuoitr... (1) http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com.au/... (2) https://www.linkedin.com/in/liemchess Wikipedia article: Le Quang Liem Last updated: 2023-09-12 06:59:37

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page 1 of 71; games 1-25 of 1,753  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Le Quang Liem vs Lagno 0-1 49 2002 World ol U16 E11 Bogo-Indian Defense 2. Le Quang Liem vs S Feller   1-0 35 2004 WYb14 E95 King's Indian, Orthodox, 7...Nbd7, 8.Re1 3. Le Quang Liem vs D Ludwig   1-0 39 2004 Wch U14 E21 Nimzo-Indian, Three Knights 4. L Bergez vs Le Quang Liem   0-1 56 2005 FSGM September B50 Sicilian 5. Le Quang Liem vs A Czebe   ½-½ 12 2005 FSGM October A32 English, Symmetrical Variation 6. Le Quang Liem vs P Prohaszka   0-1 27 2005 FSGM October E11 Bogo-Indian Defense 7. Le Quang Liem vs Trong De Toan Le   1-0 20 2005 ch-VIE Prelim D35 Queen's Gambit Declined 8. D H Nguyen vs Le Quang Liem   1-0 46 2005 ch-VIE Prelim D94 Grunfeld 9. Le Quang Liem vs N P Nguyen   1-0 42 2005 ch-VIE Prelim E97 King's Indian 10. C H Hoang vs Le Quang Liem   ½-½ 44 2005 ch-VIE Prelim B52 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack 11. Le Quang Liem vs G S Nguyen   1-0 23 2005 ch-VIE Prelim D06 Queen's Gambit Declined 12. V Bui vs Le Quang Liem   ½-½ 53 2005 ch-VIE Prelim D15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 13. Le Quang Liem vs H N Ly   1-0 36 2005 ch-VIE Prelim D49 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, Meran 14. A Nguyen vs Le Quang Liem   ½-½ 27 2005 Vietnam Championship B98 Sicilian, Najdorf 15. T Dao vs Le Quang Liem   ½-½ 41 2005 Vietnam Championship D16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 16. Van Huy Nguyen vs Le Quang Liem   ½-½ 46 2005 ch-VIE Places B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation 17. Le Quang Liem vs Van Huy Nguyen   1-0 58 2005 ch-VIE Places E96 King's Indian, Orthodox, 7...Nbd7, Main line 18. M Bojchev vs Le Quang Liem   ½-½ 32 2005 Wch U14 D11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 19. S Kharmoudi vs Le Quang Liem 0-1 42 2005 Wch U14 B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 20. Le Quang Liem vs J Cabrera Trujillo 1-0 36 2005 Wch U14 E94 King's Indian, Orthodox 21. T Nabaty vs Le Quang Liem   1-0 74 2005 Wch U14 B51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack 22. Le Quang Liem vs A Hohluks   1-0 53 2005 Wch U14 A43 Old Benoni 23. M Arnold vs Le Quang Liem 0-1 38 2005 Wch U14 D10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 24. Le Quang Liem vs A Utegaliyev 1-0 26 2005 Wch U14 D10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 25. Y Sandeep vs Le Quang Liem   0-1 40 2005 Wch U14 A06 Reti Opening  page 1 of 71; games 1-25 of 1,753

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 11 OF 17 ·  Later Kibitzing> Mar-11-11    lazyknight: Great discussion here! I am, too, fascinated by Asia's rise especially Vietnam. No doubt that Le's success has something to do with his interaction with the Russians, Le himself acknowledged this in many occasions. However, to argue that the rise of nation is based on a single case is dubious. There are many factors, each contributes a bit to the final result. We all know that a good product cannot be made by simply using good materials, but without the good materials to begin with, it's almost impossible to build a good product. Human building is no exception. So I come up with a list of important factors below. Money and supports (you can be smart, but you cannot think with an empty stomach) Intelligence (I'm gonna get flames for this, but it's no secret that some people are smarter than others, we never discuss this due to political correctness, but the data are there. There's a relationship between International Mathematics Olympiad results and chess results) Cultural acceptance (as discussed by NightSurfer. Thank you NightSurfer) Engineering (we can have all of the above, but do nothing in developing these potentials we would end up with nothing. Also this is where the 'Russian Schools' fit in) Abundance (with a lot of materials your chance of making some good product is higher. China and India hava a lot of these) Luck (the least reliable factor, but it is a factor) ;) Mar-11-11    polarmis: It's great to get the Vietnamese/Chinese perspective on the topic! This is a little off-topic, but a really interesting interview with an English chess tutor was published today. You get an idea of how difficult it is to "produce" top players - and of some of the issues involved in training kids: http://streathambrixtonchess.blogsp... Mar-12-11    Nightsurfer: Dear <Ladolcevita>, thank you so much for your wonderful explanation with regard to the Four Arts of the Ancient Chinese Scholar! XIE XIE!! And, dear <lazyknight>, thank you very much for further analyzing the topic! Mar-13-11    Ladolcevita: <Nightsurfer> Bu yong keqi la~~ Mar-16-11    villians: GM Le Quang Liem posts his tournament plan for the next six months in his facebook: 17/3 - 22/3: Bundesliga, Germany 10/4 - 15/4: Chinese League, China 9/5 - 21/5: Capablanca Memorial, La Habana, Cuba (6 players, double round robin) 25/5 - 5/6: French League, France 30/6 - 3/7: Chinese League, China 19/7 - 3/8: Sparkassen Chess Meeting, Dortmund, Germany (6 players, double round robin) 25/8 - 20/9: World Chess Cup, Khanty Mansiysk, Russia. Mar-16-11    Caissanist: I don't see a Facebook page for him, except for a couple of dummy pages that somebody generated from his Wikipedia bio. Mar-16-11    lazyknight: <Caissanist: I don't see a Facebook page for him, except for a couple of dummy pages that somebody generated from his Wikipedia bio.> I know what you mean, I found the same dummy pages. But after digging a little more I found it. Here's how, go to facebook.com then look in the footer bar then change the language to Tieng Viet (Vietnamese?), after that you see that the site for facebook vietnam is http://vi-vn.facebook.com/ now go to google, then choose Advance Search, set that Search within a site or domain to: http://vi-vn.facebook.com/ then search for Le Quang Liem you will find it. Though most people are chatting in Vietnamese, Le sometimes announces his schedule in English. Hope this helps. Mar-16-11    lazyknight: There are a few Le Quang Liem found, this is a direct link to the correct one http://vi-vn.facebook.com/people/Le... Mar-16-11    Caissanist: <lazyknight> Tx much. Mar-17-11    wordfunph: "There’s no magic. I simply really love chess, I study it constantly, and I try to play in every game rather than make draws. It simply went well!" - GM Le Quang Liem (as back-to-back champion of the 2010-11 Aeroflot Open) http://www.bworldonline.com/content... thanks to Mr. Bobby Ang.. Mar-19-11    Penguincw: Nice pic. Mar-21-11    Caissanist: Le is still a student back home in Vietnam, despite all the time he spends playing in tournaments in Europe: http://english.vietnamnet.vn/en/spo... Mar-21-11    polarmis: <wordfunph: thanks to Mr. Bobby Ang..> Actually, it would have been nice if Bobby Ang had hyperlinked to the source for his quotations: http://www.chessintranslation.com/2... And hadn't accidentally mixed my words up with Tomashevsky's :) Apr-14-11    27xx: LQL has scored 2 wins, a draw in Chinese Chess League. It's a pity that Liem was forced to draw as black in 2 games: one in Bundesliga and another in Chiness Chess League despite these games almost in his hand. Apr-17-11    notyetagm: A nice win by LQL from earlier this year: [Event "Ho Chi Minh City open"] [Site ""] [Date "2011.??.??"] [Round "8"] [White "Barbosa, Oliver"] [Black "Le Quang Liem, "] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2461"] [BlackElo "2664"] [WhiteTitle "IM"] [NIC "CK 12.3"] [ECO "B19"] [PlyCount "50"] 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. h4 h6 7. Nf3 Nd7 8. h5 Bh7 9. Bd3 Bxd3 10. Qxd3 e6 11. Bd2 Ngf6 12. O-O-O Be7 13. Ne4 O-O 14. Nxf6+ Nxf6 15. g4 Qd5 16. g5 Qxa2 17. c4 Ng4 18. Qe2 b5 19. Rdg1 bxc4 20. gxh6 Rfb8 21. Bc3 Rxb2 22. h7+ Kh8 23. Qxb2 Ba3 24. h6 Nxh6 25. d5 f6 0-1 Apr-17-11    notyetagm: 21 ... Rb8xb2! would make a nice puzzle, from Schach 64 04/2011 Apr-19-11    ChikoIv: meet him personal LQL is down to earth guy no superstar attitude even in his own land where he is no.1.. Apr-19-11    hblume: after seeing xiangqi played in boston's chinatwon a few years back, and i learned how to play and now enjoy it as much as i do international chess. but i must disagree with nightsurfer when he says: "the rules of Chinese Chess XIANGQI have not been changed since more than 1000 years." from what i've read, that's not so. the cannon, for example, is a rather late addition. the truth is both xiangqi and (what is formally called) international chess are deeply imbedded in their host cultures. i wd love to know Ho Chi Minh's poems regarding xiangqi. the chinese writer ah cheng has written a novella — "the king of chess" — concerning xiangqi. it has recently been translated into english. i recommend it. (in fact, i reviewed it at http://www.theworld.org/2010/07/26/...) May-12-11    Nightsurfer: Thank you for your comment, dear <hblume>. Talking of the rules of XiangQi, I have to disagree with you, however: The oldest game of XiangQi that has been recorded that very game has been played at the Imperial Court sometimes during the 10th century, meaning, sometimes around 950 A.D., and during that time the Cannons have already been part of the armies of XiangQI. Conclusion: The rules of XiangQi are valid for more than 1050 years. The Cannons have been added to the arsenal of XiangQi during the 9th century already, as David H. Li has put forwarth in his instructive "Syllabus on XiangQi"-series! With regard to one of the XiangQi-poems of Ho Chi Minh I will check out my papers, I ought to have the translation of some lines! May-14-11    wordfunph: GM LQL with 2.5 after 4 rounds in Capa Memorial.. http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/chessne... May-15-11    lazyknight: Le is doing well so far in Capa Memorial. Facing Chucky next. Go Le, you can do it! I have great respect for Le knowing that most young GMs of this caliber only do chess while Le is a full-time student at University of Saigon. This is possible because his professors allow him to complete assignments before or after tournaments! He mentioned that he practices chess around 4 hours/day. He must have heck of a busy schedule! May-18-11    lazyknight: Congrat GM Le who broke the 2700+ barrier once again, current rating: 2700.3 http://www.2700chess.com/ May-21-11    joeyj: Rnd 8 & 9 Wins Rnd 8 : Bruzon Batista, Lazaro 2693 : W1 : +5.1 Rnd 9 : Navara, David 2702 : W1 : +5.2 Live Rating (after Rnd 9) : 2710.6 http://www.2700chess.com/ May-21-11    Appaz: Le defeats Navara in the 9th round, takes the lead by a full point on Ivanchuk with 6.5 and shoots like a rocket into the 2700s. Possible the biggest talent beside Carlsen and Karjakin. May-21-11    joeyj: Rnd 10 Result Ivanchuk, Vassily : 2776 : L0 : -3.8 Live Rating (after Rnd 10) : 2706.8 http://www.2700chess.com/ Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 17) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 11 OF 17 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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