FILIPINO grandmaster Wesley So turned back Pons Vallejo of Spain, 4-2, in the third round of the 2017 FIDE World Cup of Chess in Tbilisi, Georgia
He advanced to Round 4 of this meet, which attracted 128 of the world’s strongest players.
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Earlier, So got past Colombia’s Danni Castillo, 1.5-05, before he won over Matthias Bluebaum of Germany, 4-2.
World’s no. 1 Magnus Carlsen reached the third round after he won over Oluwafemi Balogun of Nigeria and Aleksev Dreev of Russia in the first two rounds.
But he was knocked out of contention after taking a 0.5-1.5 loss to China Bu Ziangzhi.
