Today's World Cup Chess schedule: Le Quang Liem shows off his rapid and blitz chess skills

Today (November 16) in India, Vietnam's No. 1 chess player Le Quang Liem entered a tie-break match with German chess player Alexander Donchenko to win the right to enter the quarter-finals of the 2025 Chess World Cup.

Expecting Le Quang Liem to promote his strengths in rapid and blitz chess

With the score tied after 2 standard games, Le Quang Liem (elo 2,729) and Alexander Donchenko (elo 2,641) will decide the winner in a tie-break. The tie-break format is as follows: 2 rapid games of 15 minutes plus 10 seconds for each move, if there is a tie, there will be 2 rapid games of 10 minutes plus 10 seconds for each move.

Le Quang Liem (left) promises to show his strengths in rapid and blitz chess against Alexander Donchenko

PHOTO: FIDE

If the tie continues, the two players will play two blitz games of 5 minutes plus 3 seconds per move. If the tie continues, two blitz games of 3 minutes plus 2 seconds per move will be played. If the two players are still undecided, the Sudden Death Armageddon game will be held with the white pieces having 4 minutes plus 2 seconds, the black pieces will have the time according to the "auction" level set by the two players and also have 2 seconds added to each move. The player with the lower time will hold the black pieces, and the black player wins if the game ends in a draw.

After a spectacular escape in the second round of the standard chess match, Le Quang Liem was assessed by the coaches to have a good psychological advantage when entering the tie-break match taking place from 4:30 pm today. In addition, the number 1 player in Vietnam also has the ability to play fast chess and blitz chess very well, having won the world blitz chess championship in 2013. It was the time pressure that Le Quang Liem created in the second round of the standard chess match yesterday that prevented Alexander Donchenko from successfully taking advantage of the opportunity to materialize into victory. However, Alexander Donchenko also showed his ability to compete very well, ready to cause difficulties for players with higher elo such as Le Quang Liem or previously defeated the number 4 seed Anish Giri (Netherlands, elo 2,759).

The winner of the tie-break between Le Quang Liem and Alexander Donchenko will advance to the quarter-finals of the 2025 Chess World Cup.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/lich-thi-dau-world-cup-co-vua-hom-nay-le-quang-liem-tro-tai-co-nhanh-co-chop-185251116063459564.htm