Quang Liem wins standard chess after one year
Quang Liem (standard chess Elo 2,728) took the black piece, bringing the game against Deac (2,693) on the evening of July 18 to the end. The number one player in Vietnam has a great advantage in terms of time, so he can take advantage of every small mistake of the Romanian representative. The two sides were balanced in strength, but Black brought the king to the third row, and the white king was pushed to the first row. Black pawns also go down to row three, two steps away to rank, while white pawns need five more steps. After 50 moves, the world number 43 player asked to lose.
This is Quang Liem's first standard chess game, since the draw with Andrey Esipenko in the last game of Biel Grandmaster on July 22, 2022, helping Vietnam to win the championship. As a rule, a player must have played at least one standard game within 12 months, or his name will be removed from the FIDE ranking. Quang Liem is a full-time chess coach at Webster School, USA, so he doesn't have much time to attend other tournaments.
Biel Grandmaster 2023 takes place from July 16 to July 26 in Switzerland, with eight players including Du Duong Y (2,735), Quang Liem, Arjun Erigaisi (2,710), Bassem Amin (2,694), Deac, Vincent Keymer (2,690). ), David Narava (2,689) and Jules Moussard (2,654).
Prizes as usual will be scored in three categories including standard chess, fast and lightning. Each game of standard chess wins four points, fast chess two points and blitz chess one point, standard draw 1.5 points, fast chess one point and blitz chess 0.5 points. At the fast chess content on July 16, Quang Liem only achieved 5 out of 14 maximum points, ranked sixth among eight players participating in the tournament. Victory over Deac in a standard game of chess helped Quang Liem increase his achievement to 9 points, ranking fourth behind Navara, Keymer and Du. The difference between Quang Liem and the top of Navara's table is five points, when the tournament still has six standard chess games and seven blitz games ahead.
In the standard two chess game, Quang Liem took the white piece to meet Amin from 7pm today, July 19.
Quang Liem earned 4.5 more Elo from Deac's win, bringing his multiplier to 2,733, returning to the Top 20 in the world. The highest career Elo of this 32-year-old player is 2,739, established in 2017.
In addition to the Grandmaster invitation, Biel also organized an expansion table, with chess player Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son and his wife Pham Le Thao Nguyen attending. After two standard games of this board, Truong Son got 1.5 points and Thao Nguyen got 1 point.
