Impressive performance by this young man at Aeroflot. Needing only a draw to tie for 1st, Le defeated Nepomniachtchi to win clear first while courting a performance of around 2850!
Congratulations to GM Le!
Le Quang Liem (2647) – Nepomniachtchi (2658) [A30]
Aeroflot (9), 17.02.2010
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Qb6 6.Nb3 e6 7.e4 Bb4 8.Bd3 Ne5 9.0–0 Qd6 10.Bf4 Bxc3 11.bxc3 Qxd3 12.Bxe5 Qxc4 13.Re1 b6 14.Qf3 Bb7 15.Nd4 0–0–0 16.a4 Qc5 17.Bg3 e5 18.a5 Rhe8 19.axb6 axb6 20.Nf5 g6 21.Ng7 Nxe4 22.Nxe8 Rxe8 23.Qxf7 Rf8 24.Qa2 Qc6 25.f3 Qc5+ 26.Bf2 Nxf2 27.Qxf2 Qxf2+ 28.Kxf2 e4 29.Re3 Kc7 30.Kg3 exf3 31.gxf3 Bd5 32.Ra4 Be6 33.Rh4 h5 34.Rf4 Ra8 35.h4 Ra5 36.Rf6 Bf5 37.Kf4 Rc5 38.Kg5 Bc2+ 39.Kh6 Rc4 40.f4 b5 41.Re5 Rc6 42.Rf7 Kb6 43.Rxd7 Rxc3 44.Rd8 Ka5 45.Rb8 Rb3 46.Rc8 Bb1 47.Rb8 Ka4 48.Rb6 Rb4 49.Ra6+ Kb3 50.Rxg6 Bxg6 51.Kxg6 Rxf4 52.Rxb5+ Kc4 53.Rxh5 Rg4+ 54.Kf5 Rg8 55.Rg5 Rh8 56.h5 Kd5 57.Kg6+ Ke6 58.Kg7 Re8 59.h6 Re7+ 60.Kg6 1–0
a sad loss for nguyen ngoc truong son. played ambitiously with black. le quang liem going to super tournament dortmund.
le quang liem just won 2 strong tournaments in a row. if the previous Moscow Open had used the same rule as Aeroflot to decide winner – liem would have been the main winner because he had less white games than all other shared winnners.
Congratulations to this outstanding young Vietnamese player, Le Quang Liem.
He finished =1st at the Moscow Open and is now the *sole* winner of the Aeroflot Open.
Veni vedi vici.
Susan,is chess so easy a Vietnamese can do it? Susan i still dont know why the African Americans r still the “intellectual dwarfs” of the chess world, “UM confused” (Judge Mathis}.
Chessbase wrote “it is obvious that this player will be the 1st Vietnamese to cross 2700.”Chessvibes
wrote “Liem qualified for Dortmund
later this year.”
“Susan,is chess so easy a Vietnamese can do it?”
This question borders on being racist.. Do I understand that if chess is difficult, a vietnamese can not do it??
You owe all Vietnamese a big apology, Lionel. That’s a heck of a racist remark, man. The mighty US troops surrendered to the Vietnamese, remember? They must be a lot smarter than you think.
There is a study with scientific evidence which claims that East Asians have the highest IQ and Blacks have the lowest:
“East Asians average higher on IQ tests than Whites, both in the US and in Asia, even though IQ tests were developed for use in the Euro-American culture. Around the world, the average IQ for East Asians centers around 106; for Whites, about 100; and for Blacks about 85 in the U.S. and 70 in sub-Saharan Africa.”
source:
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/node/7669