Wesley So, Dubai chess open champion
Wesley So, his name sounds like a chinese or korean,
but he is a proud FILIPINO!
yes, he is!
Currently, he won the Dubai Open
He won the tournament with 7/9 and a 2708 performance
He has an age of 14 and
the world’s youngest grandmaster from the Philippines..(oh redundant, im just proud he is a filipino!)
Below is the final standings:
Rnk | Sd | Title | Player | Rtg | FED |
Pts
|
RtgSum | Prize |
1 | 16 | GM | So, Wesley | 2540 | PHI |
7
|
20234 | $4500 |
2 | 15 | GM | Gagunashvili, Merab | 2553 | GEO |
7
|
20085 | $4500 |
3 | 4 | GM | Ghaem, Maghami Ehsan | 2604 | IRI |
7
|
19789 | $4500 |
4 | 8 | GM | Li, Chao B | 2581 | CHN |
7
|
19605 | $4500 |
5 | 19 | GM | Gupta, Abhijeet | 2521 | IND |
6½
|
20400 | $1687 |
6 | 7 | GM | Drozdovskij, Yuri | 2581 | UKR |
6½
|
20135 | $1687 |
7 | 25 | IM | Laxman, R R | 2488 | IND |
6½
|
19794 | $1687 |
8 | 12 | GM | Neverov, Valeriy | 2568 | UKR |
6½
|
19658 | $1687 |
9 | 6 | GM | Arutinian, David | 2593 | GEO |
6½
|
19546 | $1687 |
10 | 17 | GM | Ibrahimov, Rasul | 2535 | AZE |
6½
|
19533 | $1687 |
11 | 1 | GM | Guseinov, Gadir | 2625 | AZE |
6½
|
19527 | $1687 |
12 | 26 | GM | Guliev, Sarhan | 2487 | AZE |
6½
|
18570 | $1687 |
13 | 33 | FM | Salem, A R Saleh | 2429 | UAE |
6
|
19985 | $600 |
14 | 5 | GM | Kuzubov, Yuriy | 2603 | UKR |
6
|
19690 | $520 |
15 | 10 | GM | Kotanjian, Tigran | 2570 | ARM |
6
|
19663 | $520 |
16 | 9 | GM | Adly, Ahmed | 2578 | EGY |
6
|
19634 | $520 |
17 | 23 | GM | Ibrayev, Nurlan | 2507 | KAZ |
6
|
19370 | $520 |
18 | 35 | IM | Sachdev, Tania | 2423 | IND |
6
|
19184 | $520 |
19 | 48 | FM | Wu, Xibin | 2351 | CHN |
6
|
19137 | $520 |
20 | 13 | Zhou, Weiqi | 2560 | CHN |
6
|
19088 | $520 | |
21 | 30 | IM | Ashwin, Jayaram | 2446 | IND |
6
|
18905 | $520 |
22 | 20 | GM | Negi, Parimarjan | 2514 | IND |
6
|
18872 | $520 |
23 | 32 | IM | Guliev, Logman | 2434 | AZE |
6
|
18559 | $520 |
I am proud of Wesley! Go Wesley!
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Great success!
He beat lot of players from former USSR!
Comment by Alexander Dinerchtein (breakfast on KGS) | June 27, 2008 |