Winning “World Chess King”, Le Quang Liem was eliminated early in the SEA Games arena
In the morning of May 16 in Quang Ninh, the content of SEA Games 31 blitz chess took place in a qualifying round with a 5-game Swiss system, then, the top 4 players were selected to advance to the semi-finals. The biggest surprise happened when Le Quang Liem lost to both Yeoh Li Tian and In Jingyao – opponents with much lower ELO coefficients than Vietnamese players, winning 2 games and drawing 1, soon eliminated from the content. fast chess of SEA Games 31.
At the end of last month, at the Oslo Esports Cup tournament, Le Quang Liem created a “seismic” shock in the world chess village when he defeated the world No. 1 player Magnus Carlsen also in the fast chess content. After that victory, as well as Magnus Carlsen’s draw in the previous tournament, Vietnamese chess fans hope that he will be the “gold mine” of Vietnamese chess at SEA Games 31.
Meanwhile, the number 2 hope of Vietnamese chess is Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son who had a quite successful day when he earned 3.5 points, ranked fourth and reached the semi-finals. A day earlier, Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son also won a gold medal in the standard chess content.
Also today (May 16), in the women’s group, two Vietnamese players, Pham Le Thao Nguyen and Bach Ngoc Thuy Duong, played quite impressively. Thuy Duong and Thao Nguyen shared the first and second places in the table with 4 points after 5 games. If they continue to maintain their form, the duo can win individual and team gold medals in fast chess content.
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