GM Wesley so failed to avenge his loss to GM Anish Giri in their last encounter in Corus Group B early this year, this time losing again to the young Dutch grandmaster in the penultimate round of the 43rd Biel International Chess Festival. The match-up card between So and Giri now stands at two wins and a draw in favor of Giri.
Wesley's loss to Giri put him out of the title contention and perhaps even in the top 3 spots - which happens to signal the impending death of this blog (remember my wager?).
Nonetheless, I strongly believe that this loss cannot dampen the spirit of Wesley in pursuing his dream. All those who believe in him - including me - will always be behind him, through laughters, tears and pain, as he climbs up the ladder of greatness.
Go, Wesley!
GM Giri vs GM So
43rd Biel International Chess Festival
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| 8th round RESULTS: |
| Evgeny Tomashevsky | - | | Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son | 0 - 1
| (45) |
| Anish Giri | - | | Wesley So | 1 - 0
| (44) |
| Dmitry Andreikin | - | | Fabiano Caruana | ½ - ½ | (55) |
| David Howell | - | | Parimarjan Negi | 1 - 0
| (52) |
| Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | - | | Maxim Rodshtein | 1 - 0
| (54) |
| 9th round PAIRINGS: |
| Maxim Rodshtein | - | | Evgeny Tomashevsky | | |
| Parimarjan Negi | - | | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | | |
| Fabiano Caruana | - | | David Howell | | |
| Wesley So | - | | Dmitry Andreikin | | |
| Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son | - | | Anish Giri |
RANKINGS after Round 8
| 1. | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | (FRA, 2723)
| 5.0 |
| | Fabiano Caruana | (ITA, 2697) | 5.0 |
| 3. | Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son | (VIE, 2617)
| 4.5 |
| | Dmitry Andreikin | (RUS, 2650)
| 4.5 |
| 5. | Anish Giri | (NED, 2672)
| 4.0 |
| | Wesley So | (PHI, 2674) | 4.0 |
| | Evgeny Tomashevsky
| (RUS, 2708)
| 4.0 |
| | Maxim Rodshtein | (ISR, 2609)
| 4.0 |
| 9. | David Howell | (ENG, 2616)
| 3.0 |
| 10. | Parimarjan Negi | (IND, 2615)
| 2.0 |
GM Wesley so failed to avenge his loss to GM Anish Giri in their last encounter in Corus Group B early this year, this time losing again to the young Dutch grandmaster in the penultimate round of the 43rd Biel International Chess Festival. The match-up card between So and Giri now stands at two wins and a draw in favor of Giri.
1 Comment:
Again a painful loss.
As always and now getting to be quite glaring is Wesley's general technique.
I hope he and his supporters realise this otherwise his efforts in the beginning will be wasted.
I quote trainer 'you might be fantastic in the openings, you might be brilliant in tactics, but all of this is pointless if you lack the skill in transforming your advantage in the endgame'
Hope Wesley learns from this episode, it is happening again...
GKK
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