Wesley So | |
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Full name | Wesley Barbasa So |
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Title | Grandmaster (2008) |
FIDE rating | 2773 (#10 in the Jan 2016 FIDE World Rankings) |
Peak rating | 2788 (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]