Wesley So suffers disastrous 7th round defeat to Vachier-Legrave - BusinessWorld Online

The 28-year-old Mr. So continued to fall under Mr. Vachier-Lagrave’s spell and suffered a disastrous seventh-round defeat in standard on Wednesday that may have cost him his title bid in the Norway Chess in Stavanger.

Looking in control with the black pieces after employing his pet Berlin of the Ruy Lopez, Mr. So suddenly played an errant knight move that allowed Mr. Vachier-Lagrave to gain a precious tempo and a winning pawn edge that he easily converted into a win and the full three points. Because of the catastrophic setback, Mr. So fell down to fifth place with 10 points and may have kissed his title aspiration goodbye.

In contrast, it sent Mr. Vachier-Lagrave up to a share of No. 3 with Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan with 11.5 points apiece behind only Magnus Carlsen — the reigning world champion — with 13.5 points and Vishwanathan Anand of India with 13.Besides Messrs. Vachier-Lagrave, Carlsen also owns a winning record over Mr. So in standard at 5-1.

But Mr. So had already conquered Mr. Carlsen twice — first in the blitz section and the other in the second round of this same tournament that is now on its 10The only thing left for Mr. So now to clean up the road to a potential world championship trip in the future is to remove another barrier named Mr. Vachier-Lagrave, who keeps haunting him in his dreams. —

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