Le Quang Liem triumph at US Chess Champs
(VOV) -Vietnam’s international chess grandmaster Le Quang Liem has added six points to his Elo rating after winning the Pan American Inter-Collegiate Chess Championship at Texas’ Webster University on January 1.
Liem defeated Curtis A. Winter (Elo 1972), Michael Lee (2387), Niclas Huschenbeth (2537), and Leonid Kritz (2604), and drew with Yaroslav Zherbukh (2614) and Kovalyov (2617).
Liem dominated Board 1, joined by his equally impressive first place teammates—Wesley So and Ray Robson—at Boards 3 and 4.
Forty-two chess teams representing 20 American and Canadian universities contested the tournament.