
This is the second consecutive time the Vietnamese grandmaster, Elo 2728, has won the BielGrandmaster Triathlon title.
The Biel Grandmaster Triathlon consisted of eight players withan average Elo rating of 2,699, and seven of them were or are supergrandmasters. After five standard chess games, Liem won against Bogdan-DanielDeac, Bassem Amin, Arjun Erigaisi and Du, and only lost to Vincent Keymer.
Liem has been the number one chess player in Vietnamfor the past 15 years. He became the world blitz chess champion in 2013 andAsian champion in 2019./.