18 years old Vietnamese wins super tournament, the 4th Kolkata Open

Not even the 2008 Dubai Open or the Wijk Aan Zee Corus group C, two of Wesley So's greatest triumph to date can match what the 18 year old Vietnamese grandmaster, Le Quang Liem had just accomplished. He just won the super strong tournament, the 4th Kolkata Open. By ruling Kolkata, Le Quang Liem asserted himself as one of the best junior player in all of South East Asia. Just seeded 14 with a rating of 2602, he emerges ahead of legitimate super grandmasters in the tourney like the top seed Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2721), second seed Nigel Short (2706), and other of his more celebrated prodigies like the newly crown DATMO Malaysian Open champion, Parimarjan Negi and reigning world junior champion, Abhijeet Gupta, both of host India.

Le finished the tournament undefeated, scoring 8 points out of possible 10, defeating top seed Mamedyarov in the 4th round and reigning Asian continental champion and second to world champion Vishwanathan Anand, Surya Shekhar Ganguly (2634) in the 7th round. Le has an impressive performance rating of 2777. The tournament saw the participation of 116 players, with 34 GMs, 3 WGMs and a whole bunch of IMs and FMs.

Le will be back to Hanoi $6,000 richer.

Top 20 finishers

Rk.			Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1		GM	Le Quang Liem	VIE	2602	8,0	64,0	59,0	54,0
2		GM	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar	AZE	2721	7,5	59,0	55,0	50,0
3		GM	Filippov Anton	UZB	2595	7,5	56,0	53,0	48,5
4		GM	Sandipan Chanda	IND	2611	7,0	66,0	60,5	55,0
5		GM	Short Nigel D	ENG	2706	7,0	61,5	57,5	52,0
6		GM	Laznicka Viktor	CZE	2634	7,0	60,5	56,5	52,0
7		IM	Satyapragyan Swayangsu	IND	2439	7,0	60,5	56,0	51,0
8		GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	IND	2634	7,0	60,5	56,0	50,5
9		GM	Aleksandrov Aleksej	BLR	2639	7,0	54,5	50,5	46,0
10		GM	Safarli Eltaj	AZE	2587	6,5	60,5	56,0	51,0
11		GM	Rahman Ziaur	BAN	2554	6,5	56,5	52,5	48,0
12		GM	Mamedov Rauf	AZE	2626	6,5	54,5	50,5	45,5
13		GM	Postny Evgeny	ISR	2651	6,5	54,0	50,0	46,0
14		GM	Negi Parimarjan	IND	2615	6,5	54,0	50,0	45,5
15		GM	Gupta Abhijeet	IND	2584	6,5	53,0	48,5	43,5
16		GM	Geetha Narayanan Gopal	IND	2598	6,5	51,5	48,0	44,0
17		GM	Hillarp Persson Tiger	SWE	2577	6,5	47,5	43,5	39,5
18		GM	Panchanathan Magesh Chandran	IND	2532	6,0	61,5	56,5	51,5
19		GM	Khusnutdinov Rustam	KAZ	2506	6,0	60,5	56,0	51,0
20		GM	Gagunashvili Merab	GEO	2564	6,0	59,5	55,0	50,0

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