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Lê Quang Liêm (born 13 March 1991) is a Vietnamese chess grandmaster, the top-ranked of his country. [ 2 ] He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2006. Liêm won the Asian Chess Championship in 2019 and was the World Blitz Chess Champion in 2013.
The Biel International Chess Festival is an annual chess tournament that takes place in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. It consists of two events, the Grandmaster Tournament, held with the round-robin system, and the Master Open Tournament (MTO), held with the Swiss system. The Grandmaster Tournament has taken place since 1977.
The Open event was contested by a total of 975 players from 197 teams. [10] It featured seven of the top ten players from the FIDE rating list published in September 2024. . World no. 2 Hikaru Nakamura decided not to play for a second Olympiad in a row, and Alireza Firouzja did not play for France.
17–21 November. ← 2005. 2013 →. Chess at the 26th Southeast Asian Games was held at Jayakarta Hotel in Palembang, Indonesia between 17 and 21 November 2011. [1]
The tournament winner would qualify to play Ding Liren for the World Championship in 2024. Players from the same federation were required to play each other in the first rounds of each half [ 7 ] to discourage collusion. The players affected in the 2024 Candidates are R Praggnanandhaa, Vidit Gujrathi and Gukesh Dommaraju from India, and Fabiano ...
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; in 2013 it was converted to a rapid and blitz event, while in 2014 it wasn't held. The first event had around 80 grandmasters, while in the second event 150 ...
The Chess World Cup 2023 was a 206-player single-elimination chess tournament that took place in Baku, Azerbaijan from 30 July to 24 August 2023. [1] It was the 10th edition of the Chess World Cup . The winner, runner-up and third-place finisher of the tournament ( Magnus Carlsen , R Praggnanandhaa and Fabiano Caruana ) earned the right to the ...
The Champions Chess Tour (CCT) 2024 is a fast chess tournament circuit organized in 2024 by Chess.com. The tour started on 26 January 2024 and will end on 21 December 2024. It involves four online chess tournaments and an over-the-board final round, featuring some of the world's top players who played for a prize money pool of US$ 1,700,000.