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Le Quang Liem has excelled over a series of masters, including America's number one chess player Hikaru Nakamura, to win the world's top online chess tournament Titled Tuesday.
The Titled Tuesday tournament took place in the early morning of April 3 (Vietnam time) and gathered 675 players with the title of grandmaster or higher, including many of the world's leading grandmasters.
Vietnamese Grandmaster Le Quang Liem played excellently, remaining undefeated after 11 games, earning a total of 10 points with 9 wins and 2 draws, thereby convincingly winning the championship.
Notably, Quang Liem defeated Grandmasters Parham Maghsoodloo (Iran) and Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan (India) respectively.
Quang Liem's toughest opponent at the tournament was Hikaru Nakamura, the number one player in the US, who finished in second place with 9.5 points (8 wins, 3 draws), including a draw with Quang Liem in the 9th game.
Quang Liem and Nakamura were both undefeated throughout the 11 games. Meanwhile, world number one Magnus Carlsen retired after winning all 5 games without any clear reason.
This is the 6th time Quang Liem has won the Titled Tuesday system. In 2025 alone, this is the second time he has won the championship, the first time was with a perfect record of winning all 11 matches on February 4.
Titled Tuesday is a weekly online chess tournament hosted by the Chess.com platform. With a total prize pool of thousands of dollars each week, the tournament attracts the participation of many of the world's top players.
With this championship, Quang Liem won 1,000 USD in prize money and more importantly, rose to fourth place on the Titled Tuesday Grand Prix rankings with 91 points.
Titled Tuesday Grand Prix is a scoring system to select the eight best male and female players to participate in the final round of Speed Chess Championship 2025 - a prestigious rapid chess tournament organized by Chess.com.
