Grandmaster Wesley So’s four-game winning streak ended Tuesday with a crucial ninth-round loss to Chinese GM Li Chao in the 73rd Tata Steel-Corus Group B chess championship at the de Morianne Community Center in Wijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands. Standings (After nine rounds)6.0 points – L. McShane (England) G. Sargissian (Armenia)Wesley So (Philippines) 5.5 points [...]

Tweet PARIS, Jan. 22 (UPI) — The French Chess Federation has accused three of its players of cheating at the 2010 Chess Olympiad in Russia. The federation said Friday grandmasters Sebastien Feller and Arnaud Hauchard and international master Cyril Marzolo cheated at the September 2010 event in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, but did not provide details of [...]

An announcement on Friday on the French Chess Federation’s Web site accuses three of its own players of cheating during last year’s Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. The players accused of cheating are grandmasters Sébastien Feller, ranked No. 5 in France, and Arnaud Hauchard, No. 16, and Cyril Marzolo, an international master, who is ranked [...]

Filipino Grandmaster (GM) Wesley So outduelled fellow GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly to clinch a long-awaited win in Thursday’s fifth round of the 73rd Tata Steel-Corus Group B chess championship at the de Morianne Community Center in Wijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands. Standings (After five rounds)4.0 points – L. McShane (England) 3.5 points – Z. Efimenko [...]

MANILA, Philippines – Filipino Grandmaster (GM) Wesley So settled for a draw with Armenian GM Gabriel Sargissian in the 2nd round of the 2011 Tata Steel Corus Group B chess championship, which was held in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands on Sunday (Monday in Manila). The 17-year-old So agreed to a draw after 26 moves of [...]