Wesley So Grandmaster Wesley So overcame a second-round defeat to teenage sensation Alireza Firouzja to stay in quarterfinal contention in the Skilling Open, which serves as a first leg of the 2020-2021 Champions Chess Tour Sunday. The 27-year-old So is currently in a four-way logjam at fourth spot...
Grandmaster Wesley So is seeing action in the $1.5 million Champions Chess Tour starting with the opening tournament, Skilling Open scheduled from Nov. 22 to 30. The 27-year-old So, a two-time United States champion, was the seventh player invited in the online tournament that is considered the...
Newly crowned United States chess champion Wesley So overpowered teenage sensation Nodirbek Abdusattorov of Uzbekistan, 18-10, to advance to the quarterfinals of the 2020 Speed Chess Championship over the weekend. The 27-year-old So won all three time controls, 5.5-4.5 in the five minutes plus...
GM Magnus Carlsen (Fischer Random / Nick Barton / File Photo) Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen showed Wesley So why he’s the reigning world champion after carving out a 5.5-3.5 victory to win their chess24 Banter Series duel. Carlsen toyed with So in the first game of the finale where the Danish played...
GM Wesley So and GM Magnus Carlsen (Fischer Random / Nick Barton / File Photo) For Grandmaster Wesley So to realize his dream of becoming a world champion in the future, he needs to hurdle the biggest name in chess—Magnus Carlsen. So faces Carlsen once again, this time in the Chess24 Banter...
Grandmasters Wesley So and Magnus Carlsen, reigning world champion, share the 2020 Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz title. (Fischer Random / Nick Barton. File) Grandmaster Wesley So whipped up four wins in the last six rounds for a share of the 2020 Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz title with reigning world...
Magnus Carlsen takes solo lead GM Wesley So and GM Magnus Carlsen (Fischer Random / Nick Barton / File Photo) Grandmaster Wesley So ran into trouble in the first of the two-day blitz part of the 2020 Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz tournament to slip from first to second and allow reigning world...
Grandmaster Wesley So (FIDE Photo) Grandmaster Wesley So split the point with Russian Alexander Grischuk in 21 moves of a Queen’s Gambit Declined to stay in the title hunt after six rounds in the Saint Louis Rapid 2020 held online Wednesday. The draw put the Minnesota-based So in a tie with...
Grandmaster Wesley So (FIDE Photo, File) Grandmaster Wesley So succumbed to teenager Alireza Firouzja of Iran in the ninth and final round to finish fifth out of 10 participants in the 2020 Champions Showdown: Chess9LX (Fischer Random) online tournament over the weekend. It was a painful defeat...
So, Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura in three-way tie for second GM Wesley So and GM Magnus Carlsen (Fischer Random / Nick Barton / File Photo) Grandmaster Wesley So continued his dominance over world classical champion Magnus Carlsen with a fifth-round win and then drew with World No. 2 Fabiano...
