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MANILA, Philippines – GM Wesley So sets out as one of the favorites in the Asian Individual Chess Championships which starts April 20 featuring the best and the finest players in the region at the Subic Exhibition and Convention Center in Subic.
A berth in the next year’s World Cup will be staked in the 10-day tournament where So, Read the rest of this entry »
MANILA, Philippines – Grandmaster (GM) Wesley So, FIDE (World Chess Federation) Master (FM) Jan Emmanuel Garcia, reigning RP Boys 12-and-under champion Paolo Bersamina and Narquinden Reyes emerged as winners in Sunday’s 1st Pichay and Davis Cup chess festival.
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MANILA, Philippines — Grandmasters (GMs) Wesley So, Rogelio “Joey”Antonio Jr. and Darwin Laylo will spearhead the Philippines’ participation in the upcoming 2010 Asian Continental Chess Championship in April at the Subic Bay Exhibition and Convention Center in Zambales.
The three wood pushers, who represented the Philippines in the World Chess Cup, said they expect rough sailing in the tournament which takes place from April 20 to 30. Read the rest of this entry »
MANILA, Philippines — Grandmaster Wesley So gained 9.3 points according to the March 2010 RP-FIDE rating list to post the highest ranking ever in the International Chess Federation (FIDE) list by a Filipino.
The 16-year-old Bacoor, Cavite based chess player is now ranked No. 64 in the world with a total of 2665 ELO rating points after gaining 9.3 points in Corus B and Aeroflot Chess.
MANILA, Philippines – Newly crowned Aeroflot Open top junior player Wesley So seeks an unprecedented third straight title when the 2010 “Battle of GMs” chess championships come off the wraps March 15-22 in Dapitan City, Zamboanga del Norte.
So, who dominated the first two editions, will set out as the prohibitive favorite anew in this prestigious tournament organized by the National Chess Federation of the Philippines (NCFP).
Fresh from bagging the Aeroflot Open’s top junior player plum, GM Wesley So seeks an unprecedented third straight title when the 2010 “Battle of GMs” chess championships come off the wraps on March 15-22 in Dapitan City.
So, who dominated the first two editions, will set out as the prohibitive favorite anew in this prestigious tournament featuring the country’s brightest wood pushers.
Filipino GM Wesley So (2656) played white and drew his game against GM Arman Pashikian (ELO 2642) of Armenia in round six of the Aeroflot Open 2010 Tournament in Moscow, Russia.
The players castled on opposite sides of a Queen’s gambit and the game ended in a bishop and pawn endgame.
GM Wesley So lost playing with the black pieces against Vietnamese GM Ngoc Truongson Nguyen in his third round game Thursday night (Manila Time) in the ongoing Aeroflot Open 2010 Tournament in Moscow, Russia.
Nguyen opened with 1.Nf3 and used a King’s Indian attack setup. They both castled kingside and Nguyen launched his king side pawns to storm Wesley’s king. So defended well and managed to exchange queens and enter the endgame. But the Filipino was pinned into a disadvantageous position with his king and rook trapped along the g and h files and he capitulated after Nguyen’s 40th move. Read the rest of this entry »
Filipino GM Wesley So scored a crucial win with the black pieces against GM Tomi Nybäck of Finland in the tenth round of the Corus B tournament in Holland last Wednesday. Nyback opened with d4 and So responded with his favorite Slav defense.
Nybäck went all out in his attack as he sacrificed a piece in his 33rd move. But So coolly defended and the Finnish grandmaster capitulated after 46 moves. The game ended with So having material advantage with a bishop, two rooks a queen and four pawns against Nyback’s two rooks, queen and six pawns. Read the rest of this entry »
WIJK AAN ZEE, Netherlands – Grandmaster Wesley So played his best game yet and ended a string of five draws with an ego-boosting win over 2005 European champion GM Liviu-Dieter Nisepeanu of Romania in the sixth round of the 72nd Corus chess tournament at the De Moriaan Community Centre here Friday.
So dusted off an old idea against Nisipeanu’s hyper-modern Reti opening, countering with a solid Slav formation with the disadvantageous black pieces and getting rid of an impending draw with precise continuation for his first win in the tough, 13-round, category-16 tournament. Read the rest of this entry »
MANILA, Philippines — A well rested Filipino GM Wesley Barbasa So is looking for his first win in the 72nd Corus international chess championship group B as he battles Indian GM Pentala Harikrishna in the 5th round at the De Moriaan Community Centre in Wijk Aan Zee, Netherlands.
The 16-year-old So, 2009 Corus C group champion, drew his first four round assignment against top seed GM Arkadij Naiditsch of Germany, GM Erwin l’Ami of the Netherlands, GM Varuzhan Akobian of the United States and GM Parimarjan Negi of India. Read the rest of this entry »
GM Wesley So played the white pieces for the first time in the Corus B tournament in Holland against GM Varuzhan Akobian of the U.S.
So (ELO 2656) has been expanding his opening repertoire and utilized the Queen’s Gambit. Akobian entered the endgame with a disadvantageous fractured pawn structure. The American defended well and the game ended in a draw after 33 moves with Akobian having two rooks and three pawns to So’s Queen and four pawns. Read the rest of this entry »
Filipino chess prodigy Wesley So’s first two games in the prestigious Corus B tournament in Holland ended in draws. In his second game today against Dutch GM Erwin L’Ami, So played the black pieces and used the Queen’s gambit accepted rather than his usual Slav defense against d4. Read the rest of this entry »
Buoyed by his personal career-high ELO rating of 2656, last year’s Group C champion GM Wesley So expressed confidence about his chances two days before he departs for Netherlands to compete in the 72nd Corus international chess championship.
“I’m ready. It’s a big challenge for me, but I will try my best,” said So, who will leave for for Wijk aan Zee via KLM Airlines. Read the rest of this entry »
MANILA, Philippines – Sixteen-year-old Grandmaster Wesley So continued to raise the level of excellence when he reached ELO 2656 based on the Jan. 1 ratings released by the World Chess Federation (FIDE).
With his strong showing in the recent World Chess Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia where he eliminated former world championship finalists Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine and Gata Kamsky of the United States, So earned 16 points to increase his ELO 2640 from the November list to ELO 2656. Read the rest of this entry »
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