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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)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Philippines
- Place of birth
- Bacoor
- Occupation
- chess player
- Participant in
- 43rd Chess Olympiad
- Sport
- chess
- Country for sport
- Philippines
- Official website
- www.wesleyso.com
- Image
- Wesley So in 2023.jpg
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- Commons category
- Wesley So
- date of birth
- 1993-10-09
- Elo rating
- 2756
- title of chess person
- FIDE Master
- name in native language
- Wesley Barbossa So
- Stack Exchange tag
- chess.stackexchange.com/tags/wesley-so
- ranking
- 7
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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.