Liêm defeats Jianchao Zhou at World Open

Lê Quang Liêm. — Photo vnecdn.netHÀ NỘI — Lê Quang Liêm defeated Jianchao Zhou in the fifth round of the World Open  二0 一 七 chess tournament in the US yesterday.Liêm is Vietnamese top seed player of the event and has Elo rating of  二 七 二 六, while his Chinese rival has Elo rating of  二 五 九 五.With this result, Liêm sits atop the Open category with  四. 五 points.

Earlier, Liêm easily beat Robby Adamson of the US (Elo  二 二 一 二) Pavel Blatny of Czech Republic ( 二 三 九 四) and Andrew Tang of the US ( 二 四 六 一). He met a little bit of difficulty when facing American grandmaster Aleksandr Lenderman ( 二 五 八 五) in the fourth round and tied with him.

The Annual World Open will close on Wednesday at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown.

The event has a prize of US$ 二 二 五,000.

After this event, Liêm, who graduated from Webster University with a BSc in Finance and a Ba in Management, will take part in the World Cup in early September in Batumi, Georgia and the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Turkmenistan at the end of September. — VNS