Vietnamese grandmaster Le Quang Liem will join foreign teams, namely Bremen, Evry Grand Roque and Qingdao Yucai, to compete at international tournaments in March, April and June.

The events include the competition among German clubs, the French Chess League-Top 16 and the China Team Chess League Division A.

Liem will also take part in two official tourneys – the World Chess Championships in Khanty Mansiysk in Russia from August 20 to September 15 and the 26th Southeast Asian Games in Indonesia in November.

Recently, Liem won the champion title of the 2010 Aeroflot Open Tournament which was held in Moscow from February 8-17.

He currently ranks 79th in the world with an ELO rating of 2,664, and aims to enter the world’s top 40 chess players with an ELO rating of over 2,700 in 2011.

(VOV)