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Grandmaster Wesley So defeated World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen to win the Skilling Open on Tuesday (Manila time).
So he made $ 30,000 while Carlsen received $ 15,000. In third place and $ 7,500 each were Hikaru Nakamura from the United States and Ian Nepomniachtchi from Russia.
So he’s actually victorious this year. He also won the 2020 United States Chess Championship and is the current Fisher Random World Champion.
“I am very happy today. Magnus allowed me to return yesterday and today. The match with (Telmour) Radjabov in the quarterfinals was critical, ”So said in an interview.
So Carlsen was tied, 2-2, in his first four-game set of the final before Tuesday’s game.
In the first set of the finals, So won the second and fourth matches, all with white pieces, while Carlsen won the first and third matches, also with white pieces.
In the second set of the final, they both won with black pieces and the games ended tied 2-2.
Then it took two blitzkriegs. So he won the first game and tied the second game to finally capture the championship.
All games are online. So is playing from his home in Missouri while the world No. 1 plays from his hometown in his beloved Norway.
Skilling Open is part of the 10-month Chess Champions Tour to find out who the king of online chess is and offers the largest cash prize of $ 1.5 million. In fact, it started with 16 players. It was reduced to eight in the quarterfinals and then four in the semifinals.
It was an unfortunate loss for the Norwegian who was celebrating his 30th birthday. So he is 27 years old.
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