GM Wesley So 2nd Game in Biel: A Draw with Reigning Tourney Champ

GM Wesley So drew his 2nd round game in the Young Grandmaster Tournament (YGT) in the 43rd Biel International Chess Festival in Bern, Switzerland.

He played against the reigning tournament champion Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France who has a FIDE rating of 2723.

Other results of 2nd round (July 20th):

Evgeny Tomashevsky	-		Parimarjan Negi	1 - 0	(94)
Fabiano Caruana	-		Maxim Rodshtein	½ - ½	(25)
Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	-		David Howell	½ - ½	(35)
Anish Giri	-		Dmitry Andreikin	½ - ½	(109)

Standings after round 2:

1.	Evgeny Tomashevsky	(RUS, 2708)	1.5
	Wesley So	(PHI, 2674)	1.5
	Maxim Rodshtein	(ISR, 2609)	1.5
4.	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	(FRA, 2723)	1.0
	Fabiano Caruana	(ITA, 2697)	1.0
	Anish Giri	(NED, 2672)	1.0
	Dmitry Andreikin	(RUS, 2650)	1.0
	Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	(VIE, 2617)	1.0
9.	David Howell	(ENG, 2616)	0.5
10.	Parimarjan Negi	(IND, 2615)	0.0

The Pairing for the next rounds:

3rd round (July 21st):

Dmitry Andreikin

-

Evgeny Tomashevsky

David Howell

-

Anish Giri

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

-

Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son

Maxim Rodshtein

-

Wesley So

Parimarjan Negi

-

Fabiano Caruana

4th round (July 22nd):

Evgeny Tomashevsky

-

Fabiano Caruana

Wesley So

-

Parimarjan Negi

Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son

-

Maxim Rodshtein

Anish Giri

-

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

Dmitry Andreikin

-

David Howell

5th round (July 23rd):

David Howell

-

Evgeny Tomashevsky

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

-

Dmitry Andreikin

Maxim Rodshtein

-

Anish Giri

Parimarjan Negi

-

Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son

Fabiano Caruana

-

Wesley So

6th round (July 24th):

Evgeny Tomashevsky

-

Wesley So

Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son

-

Fabiano Caruana

Anish Giri

-

Parimarjan Negi

Dmitry Andreikin

-

Maxim Rodshtein

David Howell

-

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

Rest day (July 25th):

7th round (July 26th):

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

-

Evgeny Tomashevsky

Maxim Rodshtein

-

David Howell

Parimarjan Negi

-

Dmitry Andreikin

Fabiano Caruana

-

Anish Giri

Wesley So

-

Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son

8th round (July 27th):

Evgeny Tomashevsky

-

Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son

Anish Giri

-

Wesley So

Dmitry Andreikin

-

Fabiano Caruana

David Howell

-

Parimarjan Negi

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

-

Maxim Rodshtein

9th round (July 28th):

Maxim Rodshtein

-

Evgeny Tomashevsky

Parimarjan Negi

-

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

Fabiano Caruana

-

David Howell

Wesley So

-

Dmitry Andreikin

Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son

-

Anish Giri

 

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