So faces Harikrishna Today
By Rene Bonsubre, Jr.
PhilBoxing.com
Thu, 21 Jan 2010

Filipino GM Wesley So will play against GM Pentala Harikrishna of India in the fifth round of the Corus B tournament in Holland. So currently has 2 points after four rounds and trails leaders Ni Hua of China and Anish Giri of Holland by a point. Harikrishna has 2.5 points.

The 23 year old Harikrishna (ELO 2672) became a grandmaster in 2001 at 15 years old. He is a product of India’s excellent chess training system being a former World Under-10 champion (1996) and a former World Junior Champion (2004).

In Tuesday’s battle of the prodigies, GM So played the black pieces against Indian GM Parimarjan Negi and wound up with a fourth draw in his fourth round game. Negi became the 2nd youngest GM in history at 13 yrs old in 2006. So became a grandmaster when he was 14, the youngest in Philippine history.

Here is the full article.

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