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SO WINDS UP SIXTH IN DUTCH TOURNEY; ARMENIAN WINS
Business Mirror
Jan 28 2014
Details Category: Sports
28 Jan 2014
GRANDMASTER Wesley So finished tied with two others at fourth place
but wound up sixth after the tiebreak at the close of the 76th Tata
Steel Masters chess tournament in Rijksmuseum, The Netherlands.
So (2719), named Chess Player of the Year by the Philippine
Sportswriters Association (PSA), settled for another draw, this time
against GM Fabiano Caruana (2782) to join the Italian and Cuban GM
Leinier Dominguez (2754) from fourth to sixth place. The Webster
University sophomore earned the PSA honor after winning the gold
medal in the 27th Kazan Summer Universiad in Russia.
The 20-year-old So, however, finished sixth overall after the tiebreak
in the World Chess Federation (Fide) Category 20 tournament. He scored
three wins, two losses and six draws.
Armenian GM Levon Aronian (2812) clinched the overall title with
8.0 points followed by GM Anish Giri of the Netherlands (2809) and
Russian GM Sergey Karjakin (2759).
Indian GM Pentala Harikrishna (2706), Dutch GM Loek Van Wely (2713),
Japanese-American GM Hikaru Nakamura (2703), GM Boris Gelfand of
Israel (2675), GM Richard Rapport of Hungary (2614) and German GM
Arkadij Naiditsch (2718) rounded up the standings.
Wijk aan Zee and the high-tech Campus Eidhoven were the other venues
of the Tata chess tournament.
(With Nico Concepcion)
http://businessmirror.com.ph/index.php/en/sports-news/26651-so-winds-up-sixth-in-dutch-tourney-armenian-wins
Business Mirror
Jan 28 2014
Details Category: Sports
28 Jan 2014
GRANDMASTER Wesley So finished tied with two others at fourth place
but wound up sixth after the tiebreak at the close of the 76th Tata
Steel Masters chess tournament in Rijksmuseum, The Netherlands.
So (2719), named Chess Player of the Year by the Philippine
Sportswriters Association (PSA), settled for another draw, this time
against GM Fabiano Caruana (2782) to join the Italian and Cuban GM
Leinier Dominguez (2754) from fourth to sixth place. The Webster
University sophomore earned the PSA honor after winning the gold
medal in the 27th Kazan Summer Universiad in Russia.
The 20-year-old So, however, finished sixth overall after the tiebreak
in the World Chess Federation (Fide) Category 20 tournament. He scored
three wins, two losses and six draws.
Armenian GM Levon Aronian (2812) clinched the overall title with
8.0 points followed by GM Anish Giri of the Netherlands (2809) and
Russian GM Sergey Karjakin (2759).
Indian GM Pentala Harikrishna (2706), Dutch GM Loek Van Wely (2713),
Japanese-American GM Hikaru Nakamura (2703), GM Boris Gelfand of
Israel (2675), GM Richard Rapport of Hungary (2614) and German GM
Arkadij Naiditsch (2718) rounded up the standings.
Wijk aan Zee and the high-tech Campus Eidhoven were the other venues
of the Tata chess tournament.
(With Nico Concepcion)
http://businessmirror.com.ph/index.php/en/sports-news/26651-so-winds-up-sixth-in-dutch-tourney-armenian-wins