What is Wesley So?
{{Infobox chess player |playername = Wesley So |image = Wesley So, 2015.jpg |birthname = Wesley Barbasa So |country = {{PHI}} |datebirth = {{Birth date and age|1993|10|09}} |placebirth = [[Bacoor]], [[Cavite]], [[Philippines]] |death_date = |death_place = |title = [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] (2008) |worldchampion = |womensworldchampion = |rating = 2773 <small>(#10 in the Jan 2016 [[FIDE]] World Rankings)</small> |peakrating = 2788 <small>(February 2015)</small>}} '''Wesley So''' (born 9 October 1993) is a [[Filipino people|Filipino]] [[chess]] [[Grandmaster (chess)|grandmaster]]. So got the GM title at the age of 14 years, 1 month and 28 days, making him the 8th youngest chess grandmaster.<ref>[http://www.gmanews.tv/story/71933/So-is-now-RPs-youngest-GM-worlds-7th-youngest GmaNews.Tv, So is now RP's youngest GM, world's 7th youngest]</ref> So's transfer to the [[United States Chess Federation]] was confirmed in the November 2014 rating list.<ref>[http://www.manilatimes.net/fide-confirms-sos-transfer-uscf/138010/ FIDE confirms So's transfer to USCF] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151126185028/http://www.manilatimes.net/fide-confirms-sos-transfer-uscf/138010/ |date=2015-11-26 }} Manila Times Published 30 October 2014</ref><ref>[https://ratings.fide.com/fedchange.phtml?year=2014 FIDE Player transfers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181122141352/https://ratings.fide.com/fedchange.phtml?year=2014 |date=2018-11-22 }} FIDE website</ref> Soon after, he left Webster University to focus full-time on chess.<ref>{{cite web|title=Wesley So leaves Polgar, turns pro|url=http://www.rappler.com/sports/by-sport/other-sports/78389-wesley-so-chess-pro|website=Rappler|publisher=Ignacio Dee|accessdate=7 February 2015|archive-date=22 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150122055138/http://www.rappler.com/sports/by-sport/other-sports/78389-wesley-so-chess-pro|url-status=dead}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{-}} {{biography-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:So, Wesley}} [[Categ