Wesley So

Wesley So
Full nameWesley Barbasa So
Country Philippines
TitleGrandmaster (2008)
FIDE rating2773 (#10 in the Jan 2016 FIDE World Rankings)
Peak rating2788 (February 2015)

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]

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

  1. ↑ GmaNews.Tv, So is now RP's youngest GM, world's 7th youngest
  2. ↑ FIDE confirms So's transfer to USCF Archived 2015-11-26 at the Wayback Machine Manila Times Published 30 October 2014
  3. ↑ FIDE Player transfers FIDE website
  4. ↑ "Wesley So leaves Polgar, turns pro". Rappler. Ignacio Dee. Archived from the original on 22 January 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2015.