Quang Liem champion Biel Grandmaster
Holding the white army in the last game, Esipenko was forced to win to overcome Quang Liem champion. White dominates small in the middle, but black supports well to bring the flag to balance. Sometimes the Russian player spent nearly 50 minutes of thinking, but could not find a way to win. Coming to the country 42, the number one player in Vietnam proposed Hoa and Esipenko to accept. The computer also evaluated the flag at that time balanced.
After the game, the two players sat down for more than 10 minutes to discuss important times in the game. Sometimes the computer judges a great advantage, if accepted by the quality of black. But Esipenko ignored that option.
Hoa Liem helps to finish the tournament with 35.5 of 56 maximum points, and win the three points more than runner -up Esipenko. He topped the standard flag content, and fast flag, just unsuccessful in the flash flag.
This is Quang Liem's first personal championship, since he won the Hat-Trick title within the summer of 2019, in the Asian tournament, Summer Chess Classic and World Open. During this time, Quang Liem repeatedly returned to Chessable Masters 2021, Oslo Esports Cup 2022, SEA Games 31 or Prague Masters 2022
Particularly in the most important content, the standard flag, Quang Liem won four, drew one and lost two games, achieved the performance of the player with Elo 2,780. He earns 5.7 Elo extra, to achieve Elo 2.728, ranked 21st in the world. This is the highest position of Quang Liem career, according to the monthly Fide Order. He held this position at the end of 2017.
This is also the championship invitation with the highest average Elo with Quang Liem so far. Biel Grandmaster gathered eight players with an average Elo of 2,683. He was crowned Summer Chess Classic 2019, including six players with an average ELO of 2,681. The victory in Biel helped Quang Liem to receive more than $ 10,000.
