GMQuang Liem Le

Lê Quang Liêm was born in Ho Chi Minh City in 1991. He won Asian youth titles before becoming world under-14 champion in 2005. FIDE awarded him the grandmaster title the following year. Victories at the 2010 and 2011 Aeroflot Opens brought him into elite invitational chess. At Dortmund in 2010, he defeated Ruslan Ponomariov and Peter Leko and finished second. He became World Blitz Champion in 2013 and Asian continental champion in 2019. Playing first board for Vietnam, he scored 8/10 at the 2012 Olympiad as the team finished seventh.

A chess scholarship brought him to Webster University in 2013. He graduated in 2017 with degrees in finance and management, earning summa cum laude honors. Under Susan Polgar, he helped Webster win the President's Cup in each of his four student years. He returned as head coach in 2021. His team won another national collegiate championship in 2023. He continued his own playing career alongside coaching, reaching the 2021 Chessable Masters final and winning Biel in 2022 and 2023. His coaching tenure ended when Webster discontinued its chess program in 2026.