CAVITE-BORN Wesley So played to his second draw in the 2017 Tata Steel Chess Masters in Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands.
So, playing black, split his point with Anish Giri in 43 moves of a Reti Opening.
He dropped to third place and now shares a point with Levon Aronian, Giri, Dmitry Andreikin, We Yi, Sergey Karjakin and Ian Nepomniachtchi.
The game became drawish when Giri advanced a center pawn to the fourth and So sent an attacking rook after it.
So, who is now an American citizen, accepted the draw after Giri’s king managed to find a chance to escape.
Pavel Eljanov is now in the solo lead with two points.
Eljanov took his second straight triumph at the expense of Loek Van Wely in 44 moves of a Queen’s Pawn Game.
World no. 1 Magnus Carlsen prevailed over Radoslaw Wojtaszek in 44 moves of a Sicilian Defense to climb up to a share of second place.
He has 1.5 points with Pental Harikrishna, who defeated Bashkaran Adhiban in 43 moves of a King’s Pawn Game.
Aronian drew with Wei in 35 moves of a Reti Opening.