Le Quang Liem attends the World Chess Championship

The Vietnamese team with three players Le Quang Liem, Le Tuan Minh and Bang Gia Huy will compete in both rapid and blitz chess.

The world's leading chess event held in the last week of 2024 will open on the morning of December 27 in New York - USA, with the participation of nearly 300 players from 64 countries and territories.

The Vietnamese team with three players Le Quang Liem, Le Tuan Minh and Bang Gia Huy will compete in both rapid and blitz chess. According to the seed rankings, Le Quang Liem, Le Tuan Minh and Bang Gia Huy are ranked 22nd, 107th and 171st respectively out of 182 male players participating in rapid chess (the equivalent seeding order in blitz chess is 21st, 94th and 171st). With a high Elo and seeding, Le Quang Liem is the only Vietnamese player capable of competing for high rankings in the tournament, partly because he won the World Blitz Chess Championship in 2013.

Le Quang Liem competes at the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship. (Photo: FIDE)

Le Tuan Minh has recently achieved certain achievements in international online tournaments, so there is a chance to make his mark at the world championship. Young face Bang Gia Huy, after participating in the 2024 Olympiad as part of the Vietnamese team, will continue to test himself in the big arena to gain experience for the future.

According to the rules, rapid chess takes place in 13 scoring rounds in 3 days, from December 27 to 29. Blitz chess will be played in 13 rounds on December 30 to select the top 8 players to enter the knockout round on December 31. The top 40 players in both rapid and blitz chess will receive prizes, with a minimum of 2,000 USD for rapid chess, 1,600 USD for blitz chess and the highest being the championship title worth 90,000 USD for both rapid and blitz chess. The prize fund for the open division is 1 million USD and the women's division is 500,000 USD.

In addition to the new chess king Gukesh Dommaraju, 19/20 of the world's top players such as Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Arjun Erigaisi, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Alireza Firouza, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Wei Yi, Anand Viswanathan, Levon Aronian, Wesley So, Leinier Dominguez Perez, Duda Jan-Krzysztof, Le Quang Liem... all participated in the competition. Therefore, this event was turned into a show of force to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) and the 45th anniversary of the Chess Olympiad.

Source: https://nld.com.vn/le-quang-liem-du-giai-co-vua-the-gioi-196241226214424429.htm