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GRAND MASTER Wesley So advances to the knockout round of the Skilling Open, a part of the multi-event Speed Chess Championship, with seven others, including world number one Magnus Carlsen of Norway and defending champion Hikaru Nakamura of the United States As the.
All eight qualified for the next round after grueling 15 rounds of the 16-player preliminary.
Apart from the three, those who finished in the top 8 are GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi from Russia, Levon Aronian from Armenia, Teimour Radjabov from Azerbaijan, Maxine Vachier Lagrave from France and Anish Giri from the Netherlands.
The eight will continue their journey into the match round. Thus he will meet Radjabov while number one, Carlsen, will meet number eight, Giri, and so on.
Those who missed the semi-final round were Alireza Firouzja from FIDE, Liem Quang Le from Vietnam, Sergey Karjakin from Russia, Peter Svidler from Russia, Vidit Gujrathi from India and Jan-Krzysztof Duda from Poland, Jan-Krzysztof from Poland, David Guijarro from Spain and Ding Liren from China.
So he scored 8.5, the same score as Nepomniachtchi and Aronian and just half a point behind leaders Carlsen and Nakamura.
The remaining eight players will go through the six-day knockout matchmaking round. The prize pool is $ 100,000 with a jackpot of $ 30,000.
All games are played online and can be followed at championschesstour, com. Games are played for 15 minutes with an increment of 10 seconds.
Thus he had 3 victories against Aronian, Duda and Le; all others were draws, except a loss for Firouza, an Iranian by birth but now living in France, so his citizenship is indeterminate.
The former Filipino player from board one now plays for America after changing chess federations in 2014.
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