WESLEY BEATS DUTCH GM
By Marlon Bernardino
PhilBoxing.com
Fri, 24 Jan 2014
Round 9 Standings: Aronian 7pts Giri, Caruana, Dominguez, Karjakin 5.5pts Harikrishna, So 5pts Van Wely 4pts, Rapport, Nakamura 3.5pts, Gelfand 2.5pts, Naiditsch 1.5pts.
Round 10 - Saturday 25th Jan 2014 Giri-Karjakin, Dominguez-Aronian, Van Wely-Gelfand, Harikrishna-So, Caruana-Naiditsch, Rapport-Nakamura.
Filipino Grandmaster Wesley So (ELO 2719) defeated Dutch GM Loek Van Wely (2678) after 41 moves of King's Indian Classical in Thursday's ninth round of the super-tough Category A of the 76th Tata Steel Tournament Masters in Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
With the win, So raised his total to 5.0 points, the same output of Indian GM Pentala Harikrishna (2706), winner over German GM Arkadij Naiditsch (2737) after 19 moves of Trompowsky Opening.
Top seed Armenian GM Levon Aronian (Elo 2803) beat Ukrainian GM Sergey Karjakin (2756) after 61 moves of Queens Indian defense to inched closer to the coveted chess title with 7.0 points.-Marlon Bernardino-
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