A Vietnam Week has opened in St. Petersburg with a series of culture, sports and business activities aiming to strengthen friendship and cooperation between the Russian city and Vietnam.
Vietnamese Grandmaster Le Quang Lien finished third in the last tournament of the Champions Chess Tour, the world largest online chess competition organised by the king of chess, Magnus Carlsen.
Top-ranked Vietnamese grandmaster Le Quang Liem won the Grandmaster Triathlon title at the Biel International Chess Festival in Switzerland after holding direct rival Andrey Esipenko to a draw in the last round on July 22.
Vietnamese Grandmaster Le Quang Liem has been back on the International Chess Federation (FIDE) standard chess ranking after two-year absence as he had not competed in this category internationally since 2020.
Chess Grandmasters Le Quang Liem and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son are gold medal hopefuls of Vietnam at the upcoming 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31).
Vietnamese Grandmaster Le Quang Liem defeated Chess World Cup defending champion Jan Krzysztof Duda of Poland on April 26 at the Oslo Esports Cup 2022, which is being held online.
Vietnamese grandmaster Le Quang Liem has made a milestone victory against world champion Magnus Carlsen at Oslo Esports Cup in Norway on April 24 (Vietnam time).
Vietnamese grandmaster Le Quang Liem finished second with prize money of 15,000 USD at the recently concluded 2021 Chessable Masters held in the US after he was defeated by So Wesley from the host country.
The career of the number one Vietnamese chess player Le Quang Liem entered a new chapter when he accepted to coach a chess team of the US’s Webster University, replacing Susan Polgar, former women's World Champion.
Vietnamese Grandmaster Le Quang Liem finished ninth, while his teammate GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son came 14th at the FIDE Grand Swiss 2019 chess tournament which concluded in England on October 21.
Vietnamese Grandmaster Le Quang Liem was eliminated from the FIDE World Cup in the town of Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, after losing to defending champion Levon Aronian of Armenia in a tie-break.