Quang Liem beats former Asian champion

Quang Liem holds the white pieces and goes in the opposite direction, complicating the game with the goal of winning. Chess games are tactical, which makes both players make mistakes compared with computers. Saleh-Asian champion of 2015-made the last mistake and Quang Liem took advantage of success to win after 52 steps. Then black people will have to lose the queen if he doesn't want to be displayed.

Quang Liem again topped the Prague Masters with 4.5 points, half a point more than Pentala Harikrishna. Vietnamese Czech player Nguyen Thai Dai Van ranked third with 3.5 points.

It was Guang Lian's third victory after six games, all of which came when he was holding white chess. In the remaining three games, he holds two black chess and one white chess.

Quang Liem met Harikrishna with sunspots in the seventh race, which started at 8 pm Hanoi time on June 15th.

The victory over Saleh also helped Guanglian earn an extra 4.6 elo, bringing the elo to 2,722 immediately, ranking 23rd in the world. Quang Liem is 7 elo away from No. 20 in the world. If he wants to finish in the top 20, he will have to win two and draw one of his remaining three games.