In one of the most anticipated face-offs by the global Filipino chess community, GM Wesley So's game against GM Fabiano Caruana of Italy in Round 5 of the 43rd Biel International Chess Festival turned out to be a national joy-killer.
The loss to Caruana stalled Wesley with 3.0 points, tied with three others from 2nd to 5th place.
I view Wesley's defeat against the Italian GM from a positive perspective nonetheless. The loss, hopefully, could fire up a sense of urgency in him. Didn't I mention of motivation, the difference between "playing to win" and "playing not to lose"?
Time to see fire on board.
Round 5 COMPLETE GAMES
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Rankings after Round 5
| 1. | Fabioano Caruana | (ITA, 2697) | 3.5 |
| 2. | Evgeny Tomashevsky
| (RUS, 2708)
| 3.0 |
| Wesley So | (PHI, 2674) | 3.0 | |
| Dmitry Andreikin | (RUS, 2650)
| 3.0 | |
| Maxim Rodshtein | (ISR, 2609)
| 3.0 | |
| 6. | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | (FRA, 2723)
| 2.5 |
| Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son | (VIE, 2617)
| 2.5 | |
| 8. | Anish Giri | (NED, 2672)
| 2.0 |
| 9. | David Howell | (ENG, 2616)
| 1.5 |
| 10. | Parimarjan Negi | (IND, 2615)
| 1.0 |
| 5th round results: | |||||
| David Howell | - | Evgeny Tomashevsky | ½ - ½ | (16) | |
| Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | - | Dmitry Andreikin | ½ - ½ | (56) | |
| Maxim Rodshtein | - | Anish Giri | 1 - 0 | (39) | |
| Parimarjan Negi | - | Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son | ½ - ½ | (22) | |
| Fabiano Caruana | - | Wesley So | 1 - 0 | (49) | |
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6th round pairings: | |||||
| Evgeny Tomashevsky | - | Wesley So | |||
| Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son | - | Fabiano Caruana | |||
| Anish Giri | - | Parimarjan Negi | |||
| Dmitry Andreikin | - | Maxim Rodshtein | |||
| David Howell | - | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | |||
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