Monday, January 31, 2011

CORUS ROUND 13: SO DRAWS WITH WOJTASZEK, FINISHES 4TH


by KY, GMANews.TV
wesley soWIJK AAN ZEE, Netherlands — Not even a final-round draw against top seed GM Radek Wojtaszek of Poland was enough to lift Filipino GM Wesley So to third place in the 73rd Tata Steel-Corus Group B chess championship at the de Morianne Community Center here Sunday.

But it was more than enough to put the smile back on the faces of So and the entire chess-playing community back home, following his fourth straight good result against ELO 2700-plus players during the two-week long competition in this seaside resort town in North Holland.
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