vegas and spice tournaments expose big weakness of liem. he often get into positions that are under pressure against 2300-2500 level!! and these defensive positions lead to mistakes. what happened to him? even dumb person like me can see this. quality of his chess is losing respect.
GM Le Quang Liem is just having successive bad tournaments re: Millionaire Chess and 2014 Spice Cup losing an average of 25 elo points so far & falling below the 2700 level for the 1st time since becoming one. GM Le now has a live elo of 2680 a very sharp declined of elo. This is the risk for 2700 plus player when competing in Open Tourney with lots of low rated players, a draw & lose can reduce your elo a lot but win provides little gain. Even MVL experience this when he played in Pokerstar International. Thats why top rated players, especially the top 10 rarely plays in open tournament but more of invitationals where only 2700 plus players play. Im glad GM Wesley So skip the 2014 Spice Cup as it can hurt him more than help his cause to solidify his place in the top 10. Though he is still required to play in the Pan American College Final Four but I just do hope he wont get draws or lose as it would hurt him more.
i think what you say is true when high rating players are held to draw or blunder against low rating player. but problem with liem is his positions are often under pressure against 2300-2500 level. it is about quality of his chess. it seems like he like to take time to setup very solid positions. but while building up his solid positions, his opponents constantly pressure his positions. pressure is both attack and defense. liem need to change his solid/defensive mindset and get back to play to pressure chess himself. also he often fails to win favorable endgames.
vegas and spice tournaments expose big weakness of liem. he often get into positions that are under pressure against 2300-2500 level!! and these defensive positions lead to mistakes. what happened to him?
even dumb person like me can see this. quality of his chess is losing respect.
GM Le Quang Liem is just having successive bad tournaments re: Millionaire Chess and 2014 Spice Cup losing an average of 25 elo points so far & falling below the 2700 level for the 1st time since becoming one. GM Le now has a live elo of 2680 a very sharp declined of elo. This is the risk for 2700 plus player when competing in Open Tourney with lots of low rated players, a draw & lose can reduce your elo a lot but win provides little gain. Even MVL experience this when he played in Pokerstar International. Thats why top rated players, especially the top 10 rarely plays in open tournament but more of invitationals where only 2700 plus players play. Im glad GM Wesley So skip the 2014 Spice Cup as it can hurt him more than help his cause to solidify his place in the top 10. Though he is still required to play in the Pan American College Final Four but I just do hope he wont get draws or lose as it would hurt him more.
i think what you say is true when high rating players are held to draw or blunder against low rating player. but problem with liem is his positions are often under pressure against 2300-2500 level. it is about quality of his chess. it seems like he like to take time to setup very solid positions. but while building up his solid positions, his opponents constantly pressure his positions. pressure is both attack and defense. liem need to change his solid/defensive mindset and get back to play to pressure chess himself. also he often fails to win favorable endgames.