GRANDMASTER (GM) Wesley So spent hours talking to fans while playing online in Banter blitz on Friday (Manila time). In 2019, he defeated world No.1 Magnus Carlsen to claim his first Fisher Random Chess Championship. Just recently, he clinched the 2020 US Chess Championship, his second. An alternative is for him to be declared a “wild card” entry, granting him immediate admission into the Candidates, an eight-player chess double round-robin tournament that determines the World Chess Championship. “This year, online chess is [undergoing] a big boom,” he said.

Source: Manila Times November 15, 2020 14:15 UTC