Wesley So
Filipino-American chess player
Wesley So (born 9 October 1993) is a Filipino chess grandmaster. So got the GM title at the age of 14 years, 1 month and 28 days, making him the 8th youngest chess grandmaster.[1]
Wesley So | |
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Full name | Wesley Barbasa So |
Country | Philippines |
Title | Grandmaster (2008) |
FIDE rating | 2773 (#10 in the Jan 2016 FIDE World Rankings) |
Peak rating | 2788 (February 2015) |
So's transfer to the United States Chess Federation was confirmed in the November 2014 rating list.[2][3] Soon after, he left Webster University to focus full-time on chess.[4]
References
change- ↑ GmaNews.Tv, So is now RP's youngest GM, world's 7th youngest
- ↑ FIDE confirms So's transfer to USCF Archived 2015-11-26 at the Wayback Machine Manila Times Published 30 October 2014
- ↑ FIDE Player transfers FIDE website
- ↑ "Wesley So leaves Polgar, turns pro". Rappler. Ignacio Dee. Archived from the original on 22 January 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2015.