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Liem fails to defend Spice Cup title

Vietnamese chess GM Le Quang Liem was placed second after a draw with Phillipine rival Wesley So in his last match of the US Spice Cup Festival.

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Vietnamese chess GM Le Quang Liem was placed second after a draw with Phillipine rival Wesley So in his last match of the US Spice Cup Festival on October 22.

Unluckily, as a black player he had to share 0.5 point with his opponent after 41 moves.

With a total of 5.5 points, Liem was in the same ranking with China’s Ding Liren who aslo drew with Hungary’s Csaba Balogh.

Both Liem and Liren had 0.5 point less than the new champion Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France.

The fourth place went to So with 5 points and the fifth position to Germany’s George Meier and Balogh, who could not claim any victory at the event.

Being unbeaten after all the 10 matches of the tournament was not a bad result for Liem who had gained some important Elo ratings in the FIDE rankings.

Source: VOV
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