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Quang Liem competes at Danzhou Super Grandmaster Chess Tournament

Friday, 16:41, 27/07/2018
VOV.VN trên Google News

VOV.VN - Vietnamese grandmaster Le Quang Liem has been invited to compete at the ninth Danzhou Super Grandmaster Chess Tournament being held in China from July 27 to August 3.

Le Quang Liem (Photo: vnexpress)
Liem (Elo 2,728) will compete against three Chinese grandmasters and four other grandmasters; Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Elo 2,737), Samuel Shankland (Elo 2,727), Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (Elo 2,718) and Vladimir Fedoseev (Elo 2,707). 

This is the second year that Liem has been invited to take part in the tournament. He has the fourth highest Elo rating of this year’s competitors.

The prize kitty for the tournament is US$60,000, unchanged from last year. The champion will be rewarded with US$24,000 pre-tax (20%).

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