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Grandmaster Le Quang Liem has reached his best world ranking as he enters top 20 strongest chess players in September.
Vietnamese GM Le Quang Liem defeated GM Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa 2.5-0.5 to break the Indian prodigy’s winning streak in the fifth round of the FTX Crypto Cup taking place in Miami on August 19.
Le Tuan Minh has become the nation’s 13th chess Grandmaster (GM) after winning the championship title in the standard event played at the 2022 World Open on July 4 in Philadelphia in the United States.
Tran Dang Minh Quang, born in 2005, a student at Yen Hoa High School in Hanoi, has become a national champion in blitz chess, ranked above Grandmaster Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son.
Le Quang Liem, Vietnam’s leading chess player, on November 18 recorded an impressive victory over world No. 4 Armenian player Levon Aronian at the ongoing Tata Steel Chess India Rapid and Blitz Tournament.
Vietnam’s chess team won a total of four gold medals at the 2021 Asian Youth Online Chess Championship, coming second after the Indian team.
Young Vietnamese players are competing at the 2021 FIDE Online Cadets & Youth Rapid World Cup and seven of them have already advanced to the final round of the tournament.
International chess grandmaster Le Quang Liem of Vietnam has shot up the latest International Chess Federation (FIDE) rankings, climbing from 44th to 12th in the blitz event.
Vietnam’s No. 1 chess player Le Quang Liem enjoyed a successful competition as he made a breakthrough to finish fifth at the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz chess tournament in the United States, which was wrapped up on August 15.
Vietnamese GM Le Quang Liem wrapped up his Chessable Masters campaign as the runner-up pocketing US$15,000 in prize money, which is his most impressive performance thus far this year.
Vietnam’s No. 1 player Le Quang Liem (world No. 32) defeated world No. 5 Levon Aronian of Armenia after winning tie-break points on August 6, cruising into the final match of the ongoing the Chessable Masters tournament.
At the age of nine, Hanoi’s Dau Khuong Duy has been granted the title national master of chess.
The career of the number one Vietnamese chess player Le Quang Liem entered a new chapter when he accepted to coach a chess team of the US’s Webster University, replacing Susan Polgar, former women's World Champion.
The Vietnamese grandmaster is well known for his speed chess skills.
Young Asian Chess champion 2019 Nghiem Thao Tam, 18, got a perfect score of 800/800 on the SAT Math II test and a band score of 7.0 on IELTS test.
Nguyen Thanh Cong initially knew nothing about chess, but became an internationally certified chess referee after years of studying along with his prize-winning daughter.
Nguyen Thien Ngan, 10th grader at Chu Van An High School, Thai Nguyen Province, has earned people’s admiration for winning nearly 180 medals after nine years of competition.
Le Tuan Minh and Luong Phuong Hanh won their first-ever National Chess Championship titles in Hanoi on Sunday.
Vietnamese chess player Le Quang Liem has made it through to the quarter-finals of the Banter Series online chess tournament after defeating 2019 Chess World Cup winner Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijani 6-4 on September 22.
The Vietnamese team has suffered elimination from the Online Chess Olympiad after losing six out of nine matches in the group stage of the Online Olympiad Finals.