Wesley So Grandmaster Wesley So completed a two-game sweep of Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France to advance to the semifinals of the FTX Crypto Cup of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Friday, May 28. The reigning Fischer-Random king and two-time United States champion drew their first two games be
The orld champion was close to elimination in preliminaries, then worse against old rival Hikaru Nakamura, but now has a chance to meet title challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi in Sunday’s final
Grandmaster Wesley So took the first of their two-set quarterfinal showdown against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France, 3-1, to inch closer to the semifinals of the FTX Crypto Cup of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Thursday, May 27. After drawing the first two of their four-game duel, the Fischer-
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Radjabov and So win first sets
The FTX Crypto Cup managed to gather the ten highest-rated players in the world, with the likes of Ding Liren (world number 3) and Levon Aronian (5) not even managing to make it into the knockout stage. Moreover, those who did reach the single elimination stage are faced with tough opponents from the get go most notably, Magnus Carlsen was paired up against Hikaru Nakamura while Fabiano Caruana is playing Ian Nepomniachtchi in the quarterfinals.
In the matches mentioned above, Carlsen and Caruana, the strongest players in the world according to rating, managed to save a draw in their first mini-matches by scoring wins on demand in their last games of the day. Meanwhile, Teimour Radjabov and Wesley So won their first sets against Anish Giri and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave respectively.
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Grandmaster Wesley So booked his sixth straight quarterfinal appearance in the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour after finishing at joint second in the preliminaries of the FTX Crypto Cup Wednesday, May 26.
The Fischer-Random king and two-time United States champion tied with three other