Vietnam’s No 1 player enters FIDE World Cup’s third round

Top Vietnamese chess player Le Quang Liem advanced to the third round of the FIDE World Cup in the town of Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, on September 15.

Monday, September 16, 2019 19:15

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Vietnam’s No 1 chess player Le Quang Liem (Photo: soha.vn)

Hanoi (VNA) – Top Vietnamese chess player Le Quang Liem advanced to the thirdround of the FIDE World Cup in the town of Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, on September 15.

The HCMCity-born player (Elo 2708) defeated Anton Korobov of the Ukraine (Elo 2679)after 79 moves in the second leg.

Earlier, Liemtied with Korobov in the first leg. Liem beat Korobov 1.5-0.5 to reach thethird round.

Earlier,former world blitz champion Liem beat Aleksandrov Aleksej of Belarus.

As one of32 competitors in the third round, Liem will earn a 16,000 USD bonus. He willnext play defending European champion Vladislav Artemiev of Russia, who has anElo rating of 2757.

The ChessWorld Cup 2019 is a128-player single-elimination chess tournament held fromSeptember 9 to October 4, 2019. The finalists of the tournament will qualifyfor the Candidates Tournament for the World Chess Championship2020.

Thematches from round one to round six consist of two classical games with timecontrol of 90 minutes per 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game,with an increment of 30 seconds per move. The finals and the match for thethird place consist of four classical games.

The totalprize fund is 1,600,000 USD, with the winner taking away 110,000 USD./.

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