Grandmaster Wesley So – Interview and Game Review – 2009 World Cup

August 22, 2011 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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In this game Grandmaster Gadir Guseinov places the white pieces against Wesley So with the Black pieces at the 2009 World Cup. Wesley so is a TRUE chess prodigy, not only achieving the GM title at age 14 but maintaining the highest rated youth player in 2008 and 2009. In this game he just turned 16 but already had a FIDE approaching 2640!

We caught up with Wesley So and he was kind enough to do a text interview with us.

INTERVIEW AVAILABLE HERE: http://www.iChess.net/2011/08/22/interview-with-wesley-so/

PGN:

[Event “World Cup”]
[Site “Khanty-Mansiysk RUS”]
[Date “2009.11.23”]
[EventDate “2009.11.21”]
[Round “1.3”]
[Result “0-1”]
[White “Gadir Guseinov”]
[Black “Wesley So”]
[ECO “C05”]
[WhiteElo “2625”]
[BlackElo “2640”]
[PlyCount “68”]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. Bd3 c5 5. dxc5 dxe4 6. Nxe4
Nxe4 7. Bxe4 Qxd1+ 8. Kxd1 Bxc5 9. Ke2 Nd7 10. Nf3 Nf6 11. Bd3
b6 12. Bb5+ Ke7 13. Ne5 Bb7 14. f3 a6 15. Ba4 b5 16. Bb3 Bd6
17. Nd3 Rac8 18. c3 a5 19. a3 Rhd8 20. Be3 Nd5 21. Bd4 g5
22. Rac1 h5 23. g3 h4 24. gxh4 gxh4 25. Bf2 Rh8 26. h3 Rh5
27. Bd4 Rg8 28. Rcg1 Rg3 29. Bxd5 Bxd5 30. Ne1 Rf5 31. Bf2
Bc4+ 32. Kd2 Rd5+ 33. Kc1 Bf4+ 34. Kc2 Rd2+ 0-1

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