Under a different flag: So, the first World Fischer Random Chess Champion, received his citizenship documents on Feb. 26, ABS-CBN reported.

Already the world champion of the Fischer Random Chess variant, So posted a score that came close to replicating the great Brooklyn star’s memorable 11-0 wipeout of the field in the 1963-1964 U ...

Gukesh, the youngest World Champion in chess, scored a totally dominant win over Wesley So in the ninth round and extended his lead at the top of the table, moving to 14 points from nine rounds ...

MANILA, Philippines – Wesley So pounced on a blunder by local icon Bogdan-Daniel Deac to prevail and share the early lead with France’s Alireza Firouzja in the 2025 Grand Chess Tour Superbet ...

Former world chess champion Viswanathan Anand, right, shakes hands with Wesley So prior to the start of the Leon Chess Masters 2017 final game in Leon, Spain on July 9, 2017. J. Casares / EPA ...

MANILA, Philippines – Wesley So yielded to Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the second round of the 2025 GCT Superbet Chess Classic in Bucharest on Thursday, May 8 (Friday, May 9, Philippine time) and ...

Fischer Random Chess—also known as Chess960 in reference to the number of possible starting position lineups—had been in the works for a few years, but the timing following Deep Blue’s ...

CHENNAI: World Champion Magnus Carlsen and US rival Wesley So won their respective semifinal on Friday to set up a thrilling final of the Opera Euro Rapid . The two big guns of elite online chess ...