File:Wesley_So_in_2023.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
OverviewAI-generated
Wesley So is a chess player born on October 9, 1993. He holds an Elo rating of 2822 and is currently ranked ninth. His official website is wesleyso.com.
So has authored two works, including *Cuadernos de entrenamiento en ajedrez* and *Desert Island Chess Puzzle Omnibus*. Crossref lists five works associated with him. He is referenced by 380 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Cuadernos de entrenamiento en ajedrez
- Desert Island Chess Puzzle Omnibus
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Other
- Gender
- Not applicable
- Origin
- [Worldwide]
Discography
- Гагаку (Японская Старинная Музыка)1974
- [unknown]1975
- A White Christmas1991
- Jude On A Ragga Tip (U.K. Mix) / How Does It Feel! (The New Order Remix)1992
- Bagpipe Marches and Music of Scotland: With Brass and Accordion Accompaniment1994
- Runaway Train1994
- Best of Ballroom: Tango1995
- Floorbangers1995
- More Floorbangers1995
- The Smurfs1995
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 8
- Total plays
- 8
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Wesley+So">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Absorptive Capacity: A New Perspective on Learning and Innovation
· 1990 · cited 23,858x
- CBAM: Convolutional Block Attention Module
· 2018 · cited 18,225x
- Testing for unit roots in heterogeneous panels
· 2003 · cited 10,559x
- Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Life on Earth
· 2001 · cited 6,951x
- U1 snRNP regulates cancer cell migration and invasion in vitro
· 2020 · cited 6,507x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Wesley Barbossa So , ( 1993-10-09 ) October 9, 1993 (age 32) , Bacoor , Philippines
- Country
- United States (since 2014) Philippines (until 2014)
- Title
- Grandmaster (2008)
- Fide rating
- 2753 (June 2026)
- Peak rating
- 2822 (February 2017)
- Ranking
- No. 9 (June 2026)
- Peak ranking
- No. 2 (March 2017)
via Wikipedia infobox
~21 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Wesley Barbossa So (born October 9, 1993) is a Filipino-American chess grandmaster, a three-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the first World Fischer Random Chess Champion. He is also a three-time Philippine Chess Champion. On the March 2017 FIDE rating list, he was ranked number two in the world and had an Elo rating of 2822, making him the fifth-highest-rated player in history.
In 2019, So said his favorite form of chess is chess960 (also known as Fischer random chess). Later that year, So became the inaugural World Fischer Random Chess Champion after defeating Magnus Carlsen to win the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wesley So” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.