Top Vietnamese chess player to compete in HDBank Cup event
Le Quang Liem, Vietnam’s top chess player, will compete in the seventh HDBank Cup International Open Chess tournament 2017, the event’s organising board has announced.
Vietnam’s top chess player Le Quang Liem will compete in the HDBank Cup International Open Chess tournament 2017 (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) - Le Quang Liem, Vietnam’s top chess player, will compete in the
seventh HDBank Cup International Open Chess tournament 2017, the event’s
organising board has announced.
The event, which will offer a biggest-ever bonus of 45,000 USD, will take place on March 12-17 in HCM City with the participation of 230 players from 24 countries and territories. They will be divided into two groups: Masters and Challenge.
“We
decided to raise the prize money to encourage chess players to compete better,”
said Le Thanh Trung, vice general director of HDBank.
“Besides,
the organizing board will give awards for runners-up in order to matches will
be more interesting. The tournament will be managed by international referees,”
Trung added.
Liem, who
won a silver medal at the Asian Chess Championships in 2016, is the biggest
hope of Vietnam in this year’s event. He won the tournament in 2013 and 2015.
The
25-year-old Liem, with an Elo rating of 2712, is No 2 seed at the event. He
will battle against top seed Wei Yi of China (Elo 2725) for the title.
(The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill
levels of players in competitor-versus-competitor games).
Besides
Yi, Liem will have to try his best to beat other strong rivals including Bu
Xiangzhi (Elo 2711), Ivan Cheparinov (Elo 2698) and defending champion Wang Hao
(Elo 2683).
Vietnamese
representative Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son (Elo 2629) is also expected to make a
strong showing for Vietnam chess. Son won this event in 2014, although he
wasn’t the top seed.
The
26-year-old Son grabbed a silver medal at the Zone 3.3 Chess Championships
2017, which closed in the Philippines on March 5 and earned a ticket to compete
in the World Cup to be organised in September in Georgia.
“We are
very glad that besides male chess players at high level, the tournament also
attracts leading female players such as Lei Tingjie of China and four-time
world champion Dinara Saduakassova of Kazakhstan. They are candidates for the
women’s title, however Vietnamese players such as Pham Le Thao Nguyen, Vo Thi Kim Phung and Nguyen Thi Mai Hung absolutely make a shock as Nguyen took the
title last year,” said Dang Tat Thang, deputy chairman of the Vietnam Chess
Federation. — VNA
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