Vietnamese Grandmaster Le Quang Liem recorded a draw in his first match at the International Chess Federation (FIDE) World Cup chess tournament which was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, on August 2.

Local chess player Le Quang Liem has climbed six positions to reach 15th place with an Elo of 2740, thereby being among the top 100 players for August, according to the International Chess Federation (FIDE).

Grandmaster Le Quang Liem won the Biel Grandmaster Triathlon in Switzerland on July 26 (local time). With the victory, he is likely to rise to the 16th position on the August world ranking list.

Vietnamese boys and girls under 12 and 14 years old have brought home three gold medals at the ongoing World Cadets & Youth Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship 2023 held in Batumi, Georgia.

The city’s culture and sports department said the tournament will see chess masters playing in a round-robin in four groups, with two top each qualifying in the quarter-finals.

Vietnam secured two chess World Cup tickets from the Zone 3.3 Chess Championships 2023, which concluded in Indonesia on May 12.

The Vietnam Chess Federation has invited international players to participate in the Hanoi GM/IM/WGM chess tournaments 2023, due to take place from May 21 to May 27, and from May 29 to June 3.

Nguyen Thi Hong with visual impairment has done a great job, winning chess golds at the recent Southeast Asian ParaGames in Indonesia and being nominated to be one of the year's best athletes in 2022.

Dau Khuong Duy might be one of the youngest and smallest athletes at the 2022 Hanoi Rapid Chess Open, but that didn't stop him from winning a trophy of the elite category.

Dau Khuong Duy, 11, has been the youngest Vietnamese chess player to reach the International Master (IM) standard following his stellar performance at the Bangkok Open 2022 which was held in Thailand from October 22 to October 30.

The Vietnamese master overcame all, including title favourites Wang Tian-yi and và Zuo Wen-jing of China, who secured the individual men’s and women’s standard event a day earlier.

Grandmaster Le Quang Liem has reached his best world ranking as he enters top 20 strongest chess players in September.

Vietnamese GM Le Quang Liem defeated GM Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa 2.5-0.5 to break the Indian prodigy’s winning streak in the fifth round of the FTX Crypto Cup taking place in Miami on August 19.

Le Tuan Minh has become the nation’s 13th chess Grandmaster (GM) after winning the championship title in the standard event played at the 2022 World Open on July 4 in Philadelphia in the United States.

Tran Dang Minh Quang, born in 2005, a student at Yen Hoa High School in Hanoi, has become a national champion in blitz chess, ranked above Grandmaster Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son.

Le Quang Liem, Vietnam’s leading chess player, on November 18 recorded an impressive victory over world No. 4 Armenian player Levon Aronian at the ongoing Tata Steel Chess India Rapid and Blitz Tournament.

Vietnam’s chess team won a total of four gold medals at the 2021 Asian Youth Online Chess Championship, coming second after the Indian team.

Young Vietnamese players are competing at the 2021 FIDE Online Cadets & Youth Rapid World Cup and seven of them have already advanced to the final round of the tournament.

International chess grandmaster Le Quang Liem of Vietnam has shot up the latest International Chess Federation (FIDE) rankings, climbing from 44th to 12th in the blitz event.

Vietnam’s No. 1 chess player Le Quang Liem enjoyed a successful competition as he made a breakthrough to finish fifth at the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz chess tournament in the United States, which was wrapped up on August 15.