Viet GM topples So
August 31, 2010, 8:03pm
Top seed GM Le Quang Liem of Vietnam outclassed GM Wesley So in the keenly-watched battle between two of Asia’s top young players in the action-packed fifth round of the first Florencio Campomanes Memorial Cup chess championship on Tuesday at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium.
Le, who shocked the chess world when he finished runner-up in the prestigious Dortmund Chess Meeting behind GM Ruslan Ponomariov last July, defeated the second-seeded So in only 38 moves of the Slav.
The 19-year-old campaigner from Ho Chi Minh City, whose string of wins included a title romp in the 9th Aeroflot Open in Moscow with a score of 7/9 last February and a four-way tie for first place in the Moscow Open, emerged from a difficult middle game battle with a decisive advantage over the black-playing Filipino champion.
Le also defeated compatriot Nguyen Huyn Minh in the fourth round late Monday.
The twin victories enabled Le to climb into a six-way tie for second to seventh places with four points, half a point behind solo leader GM Zhao Jun of China.
Two other Chinese players – GMs Li Chao and Ling Diren – also won their respective assignments.
Source: http://www.mb.com.ph
Liem will break 2700 in no time.