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Wesley Barbossa So (born October 9, 1993) is a Filipino and American chess grandmaster, a three-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the first World Fischer Random Chess Champion. He is also a three-time Philippine Chess Champion. On the March 2017 FIDE rating list, he was ranked number two in the world and had an Elo rating of 2822, [1] making him the fifth-highest-rated player in history .
Super Grandmaster Wesley So officially ended the hopes of those who wished to see him represent the Philippines again when he became a U.S. citizen earlier this year. "I want to give back to a ...
Wesley So scored 9/9 in the 2011 Inter-Provincial Chess Team Championship, with a performance rating of 3037, [64] [65] won the gold medal in men's blitz at the SEA Games 2011 at Indonesia with a score of 9/9 and a rating performance of 3183, [66] and won the 2013 Calgary International Blitz Championship with a score of 9/9. [67]
The inaugural edition was held from April 20–28, 2022. [1] Levon Aronian, Fabiano Caruana, Lenier Dominguez, Wesley So, Sam Shankland, Sam Sevian, Jeffery Xiong, and Ray Robson participated in the inaugural event. [2] The tournament was won by Fabiano Caruana. [3]
Wesley So was the youngest grandmaster in the world when he won the event and he is the tournament's youngest champion. Incidents. The Dubai Open Chess Tournament became known for its aggressive stance against cheating in chess. In 2008, an untitled Iranian player, M. Sadatnajafi, was caught receiving moves by SMS on his cellphone.
The Reinforced Conference will also be known as the Wesley So Cup for this season due to sponsorship of Filipino-American chess player Wesley So himself. [11] Each team would be allowed to field one foreign player; who may either be a rated, lady, or senior player.
The reigning FIDE world Fischer random chess champion Wesley So placed second out of the ten players, tied with Sam Shankland and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. So lost only twice, namely to Leinier Domínguez Pérez and Sam Shankland.
Carissa Shiwen Yip (born September 10, 2003) is an American chess player and the winner of the 2021 and 2023 U.S. Women's Chess Championship. [1] [2] In September 2019, she was the top rated female player in the United States [3] and the youngest female chess player to defeat a grandmaster, which she did at age ten. In October 2019, she became the youngest American woman in history to qualify ...