Le Quang Liem
| Lê Quang Liêm | |
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Lê during the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in 2011
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| Country | Vietnam |
| Born |
March 13, 1991 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2726 (April 2017) |
| Peak rating | 2718 (November 2015) |
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Representing  Vietnam
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| Asian Games | ||
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2010 Guangzhou | Men's Individual |
| Southeast Asian Games | ||
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2011 Palembang | Blindfold Chess |
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2011 Palembang | Individual Rapid Chess |
Lê Quang Liêm (born 13 March 1991) is a Vietnamese chess grandmaster and the 2013 World Blitz Chess Champion. He was the Under-14 World Youth Chess Champion in July 2005. He competed for Vietnam at the Chess Olympiads in 2006, 2008, 2010,2012,2014 and 2016 . In particular, his 8/10 score on board 1 at the 2012 Chess Olympiad anchored the Vietnamese men's team to No. 7 in the final standing, the highest ever for Vietnam. Vietnam entered the Olympiad ranked No. 27. As of the January 2012 FIDE rankings, he was the 29th ranked active player in the world. He is currently the number-one ranked player in Vietnam.
During August–September, he won the 1st Dragon Capital Vietnam chess open with 7/9.
In September, he won the 4th Kolkata Open Chess Tournament ahead of 13 higher-rated players.
In December, Le with Vietnamese team won the silver prize at Tata Steel Asian Team Chess Championship in India, behind the host India. His personal performance is +4=1-1.
In February, Le participated in the Moscow Open tournament in Moscow, Russia. With +5=4 performance, he tied for 1st-4th with Konstantin Chernyshov, Evgeny Bareev and Ernesto Inarkiev.
Immediately after the Moscow open at the same venue, Le won the 9th Aeroflot Open with 7/9 (+5=4), earning him an invitation to the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting.
From July 15 through the 25th, he took part in his first elite invitational tournament in Dortmund, in a field consisting of nine-time Dortmund champion and former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik, world No. 6 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov, 2004 World Chess Championship challenger Peter Leko, and one-time Dortmund champion Arkadij Naiditsch. Facing Kramnik with the black pieces in the opening round, Le held the former world champion to a draw, and after defeating the eventual winner Ponomariov in round 4, and Leko in round 5, Le finished with five consecutive draws to secure clear second place with 5 1⁄2/10 (+2=7-1) and a performance rating of 2776.
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