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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.
Lê Quang Liêm: 2741 2024-08 1991 Highest-ranked Vietnamese player (since 2009) 58 Soviet Union Russia Canada: Evgeny Bareev: 2739 2003-10 1966 Highest-ranked Canadian player (since 2015) 59 Russia: Maxim Matlakov: 2738 2017-11 1991 60 Latvia Germany Azerbaijan Bulgaria: Arkadij Naiditsch: 2737 2013-12 1985
A total of seven chess players have been the chess world number one on the official FIDE rating list since it was first published in July 1971. [ 1 ] The first world number one, in July 1971, was Bobby Fischer. In January 1976 Anatoly Karpov became the highest-rated player on the FIDE list, FIDE having dropped Fischer (whose rating was higher ...
Wang Yue won a full point for the Chinese team with his victory over Trần Tuấn Minh on the lowest board, whereas Lê Quang Liêm levelled the score after beating Ding Liren. [44] The World Champion was a pawn down in a drawn endgame, but committed a decisive mistake that costed his team the match victory (see diagram).
Lê Quang Liêm Mohammed Al-Sayed ½–½ Rustam Kasimdzhanov Surya Shekhar Ganguly 1–0 Darmen Sadvakasov Nguyễn Ngọc Trường Sơn ½–½ Anton Filippov Krishnan Sasikiran 1–0 Mohammed Al-Modiahki Bu Xiangzhi 1–0 Amanmyrat Kakageldiýew
Arpad Elo, the inventor of the Elo rating system. The Elo[a]rating systemis a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum gamessuch as chessor esports. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American physics professor. The Elo system was invented as an improved chess-rating systemover the previously ...
He finished the tournament in sixth place with 6/9 points (+5−2=2). Though only the top five were set to qualify for the Chess World Cup 2019, Firouzja narrowly qualified for a spot in the World Cup as 1st-placed Lê Quang Liêm and 5th-placed Rinat Jumabayev had already qualified in previous events. [35]
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (French pronunciation: [maksim vaʃje laɡʁav]; born 21 October 1990), often referred to by his initials, MVL, is a French chess grandmaster who is a former World Blitz Champion. [1] With a peak rating of 2819, he is the seventh-highest rated player in history. A chess prodigy, Vachier-Lagrave earned the title of ...