Lê Quang Liêm

In this Vietnamese name, the surname is Lê, but is often simplified to Le in English-language text. In accordance with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Liêm (simply) or Quang Liêm (politely).
Lê Quang Liêm
Personal information
Born (1991-03-13) 13 March 1991
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Chess career
CountryVietnam
TitleGrandmaster (2006)
FIDE rating2731 (March 2026)
Peak rating2741 (August 2024)
RankingNo. 18 (March 2026)
Peak rankingNo. 14 (September 2024)

Lê Quang Liêm (born 13 March 1991) is a Vietnamese chess grandmaster, the top-ranked of his country. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2006. Liêm won the Asian Chess Championship in 2019 and was the World Blitz Chess Champion in 2013.

He has competed for the Vietnamese team at the Chess Olympiad since 2006. The best result occurred in 2012, when he scored 8/10 points on board 1 and his team finished in 7th place, the highest ever for Vietnam.

Since 2021, Quang Liêm has been living in St. Louis, Missouri, working as head coach for the Webster University Chess Team.

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