Wesley So wins Dubai Open 2008

Posted by GilaChess
April 15, 2008

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There was a four way tie in the Dubai 2008 Open.

GM Wesley So, GM Gagunashvili Merab, Ghaem Maghami Ehsan and GM Li Chao finished with 7 points out of 9. 14 year old Wesley So (picture) won on tie break.

Final results:-

1-4 GM So Wesley PHI 2540,
GM Gagunashvili Merab GEO 2553 ,
GM Ghaem Maghami Ehsan IRI 2604 and
GM Li Chao B CHN 2581
- 7.0 points
5-12 GM Gupta Abhijeet IND 2521,
GM Drozdovskij Yuri UKR 2581,
IM Laxman R R IND 2488,
GM Neverov Valeriy UKR 2568,
GM Arutinian David GEO 2593,
GM Ibrahimov Rasul AZE 2535,
GM Guseinov Gadir AZE 2625 and
GM Guliev Sarhan AZE 2487
- 6.5 points
13-22 FM Salem A R Saleh UAE 2429,
GM Kuzubov Yuriy UKR 2603,
GM Kotanjian Tigran ARM 2570,
GM Adly Ahmed EGY 2578,
GM Ibrayev Nurlan KAZ 2507,
IM Sachdev Tania IND 2423,
FM Wu Xibin CHN 2351,
Zhou Weiqi CHN 2560,
IM Ashwin Jayaram IND 2446 and
GM Negi Parimarjan IND 2514
- 6.0 points 

IM Mas lost the final round and ended 4.5/9. (60th position)

Official site: http://www.arabfide.com/dubaiopen2008/

Full results: here

Here’s Wesley’s last game vs DATMO 2007 champ Li Chao:-

[Event “”]
[Site “”]
[Date “2008.4.14″]
[Round “”]
[White WESLEY SO]
[Black LI CHAO B]
[TimeControl “-”]
[Result “*”]
[ECO “oft “]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 Nc6 8.Qd2 O-O 9.Bc4 Bd7 10.h4 Rc8 11.Bb3 h5 12.O-O-O Ne5 13.Bg5
Rc5 14.g4 hxg4 15.f4 Nc6 16.Bxf6 Bxf6 17.e5 Bg7 18.Qg2 * 1/2-1/2

 

 

Some kibitzers say that the final position favoured Black.

 

Wesley received a congratulatory telephone call from National Chess Federation of the Philippines President Prospero Pichay. He continues to Indonesia for a match with their champion, GM Megaranto Susanto before returning home to the Philippines for a Battle of Philippine Grandmasters.

~Philippine chess forum

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