Quang Liem in Top 15 in the world

With another 12 Elo stepping down from the Biel Grandmaster championship, Quang Liem (Elo 2,740) jumps from 21st place to 15th in the world according to FIDE's monthly list. Considering all players, Quang Liem is in 16th place. However, Teimour Radjabov (2,747) was dropped from FIDE's table because he has not played a standard game in the past 12 months. Therefore, Quang Liem increased one step to 15th place, his personal record because the previous highest position was 20.

Quang Liem is still 12 Elo away from Richard Rapport's world number 10, and 95 coefficients less than number one Magnus Carlsen. England will have the opportunity to improve Elo at the 2023 Chess World Cup taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan. He will join the army to meet Ivan Ivanisevic (2,530) in the second round, taking the black first, at 6pm on Wednesday 2/8, Hanoi time.

Also at the Chess World Cup, Vietnam still has three representatives: Le Tuan Minh (2,559) in the Open table, Vo Thi Kim Phung (2,351) and Nguyen Thi Mai Hung (2,229) in the Women's group. Mai Hung lost to Gulnar Mammadova (2,357) with a score of 0.5-1.5 and was eliminated in the first round. Kim Phung drew with Michalina Rudzinska (2,257) after two games, so I had to tie-break fast chess today 1/8. And Tuan Minh avoided being eliminated and won the second game, to equalize 1-1 against Vugar Asadli (2,567), entering the tie-break.

Vietnamese-born player Hoang Thanh Trang (2,402) easily entered the second round with a 2-0 victory over Zineb Dina Abdi (1,858), to meet Divya Deshmukh (2,372). And Nguyen Thai Dai Van (2,637) also beat Zhang Yuanchen (2,281) 2-0 and entered the second round against Aryan Tari (2,629).

The World Cup is the most important individual tournament, taking place every two years, and the top three players will qualify for Candidates 2024. This year's tournament will take place in Baku city, Azerbaijan, from July 30 to 24 / 1. 8, with 206 players in the men's group and 103 players in the women's group. Players in the knockout stages, including the seeds that were exempt from the first round, such as Carlsen (2,835), Hikaru Nakamura (2,787), Fabiano Caruana (2,782) or Ian Nepomniachtchi (2,779).