Favourite Wesley So goes down

Posted by GilaChess
September 8, 2008

Philippino hottest and youngest GM Wesley So, lost to John Paul Gomez(picture below) in round 2. 

[Event "3rd Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arr"]
[Site "Duty Free Fiesta Mall, Philipp"]
[Date "2008.09.08"]
[Round "2.5"]
[White "SO, Wesley"]
[Black "GOMEZ, John Paul"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A00"]
[WhiteElo "2577"]
[BlackElo "2457"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[EventDate "2008.09.07"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Be3 a6 8. Qd2 b5 9. a3 Bb7 10. Ne2 Be7 11. Ng3 O-O 12. dxc5 Nxc5 13. Qf2 Ne4 14. Nxe4 dxe4 15. Nd2 f6 16. exf6 Bxf6 17. O-O-O Ne7 18. g3 Rc8 19. Nc4 Nd5 20. Nb6 Qc7 21. Nxc8 Rxc8 22. Bd4 e3 23. Qe2 Nxf4 24. gxf4 Bxh1 25. c3 Qxf4 26. Bh3 Bf3 27. Bxe6+ Kh8 28. Qxe3 Bg5 29. Bxc8 Qh4 30. Bxg7+ Kxg7 31. Rg1 Bg2 0-1

Current leaders are Zhou Weiqi and Eugene Torre who still have 100% (3/3).

Round 4 pairings (top 5 boards)

Bo.   Name                  Pts.  Pts.    Name
1 GM  TORRE Eugene          3     3       ZHOU Weiqi
2 GM  KAZHGALEYEV Murtas    2½    2½  GM  MEGARANTO Susanto
3 GM  LI Chao               2½    2½  GM  ZHANG Zhong
4 GM  MCHEDLISHVILI Mikheil 2½    2½  GM  LAYLO Darwin
5 IM  GOMEZ John Paul       2½    2½  GM  GHAEMMAGHAMI Ehsan

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