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Wesley So

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Also known as Wesley Barbossa So

Filipino-American chess player

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  • Cuadernos de entrenamiento en ajedrez
  • Desert Island Chess Puzzle Omnibus

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8
Total plays
8

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5 total works indexed

  1. Absorptive Capacity: A New Perspective on Learning and Innovation

    · 1990 · cited 23,330x

  2. CBAM: Convolutional Block Attention Module

    · 2018 · cited 17,277x

  3. Testing for unit roots in heterogeneous panels

    · 2003 · cited 10,438x

  4. Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Life on Earth

    · 2001 · cited 6,826x

  5. U1 snRNP regulates cancer cell migration and invasion in vitro

    · 2020 · cited 6,509x

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Key facts

Born
Wesley Barbossa So , ( 1993-10-09 ) October 9, 1993 (age 32) , Bacoor , Philippines
Country
United States (since 2014) Philippines (until 2014)
Title
Grandmaster (2008)
Fide rating
2753 (June 2026)
Peak rating
2822 (February 2017)
Ranking
No. 9 (June 2026)
Peak ranking
No. 2 (March 2017)

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Official website
www.wesleyso.com
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Wesley So in 2023.jpg
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Wesley So
date of birth
1993-10-09
Elo rating
2756
name in native language
Wesley Barbossa So
ranking
7
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Wesley Barbossa So (born October 9, 1993) is a Filipino-American chess grandmaster, a three-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the first World Fischer Random Chess Champion. He is also a three-time Philippine Chess Champion. On the March 2017 FIDE rating list, he was ranked number two in the world and had an Elo rating of 2822, making him the fifth-highest-rated player in history.

In 2019, So said his favorite form of chess is chess960 (also known as Fischer random chess). Later that year, So became the inaugural World Fischer Random Chess Champion after defeating Magnus Carlsen to win the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship.

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