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'''Wesley So''' (b. 1993) won the [[United States]] [[chess]] championship in October 2020 by playing with a sky-high performance rating of 2919.<ref>https://new.uschess.org/news/wesley-so-2020-us-chess-champion-after-crushing-performance</ref>  Wesley So has also been the world champion in [[Fischer Random Chess]], after routing [[Magnus Carlsen]] in the finals.  On December 1, 2020, So also defeated Carlsen in the finals of the Skilling Open to win that tournament.  In June 2021, So dominated the annual Paris Rapid & Blitz tournament and won it easily, defeating his closest rival and the world #2 player Ian Nepomniachtchi ("Nepo") in the final round.<ref>https://www.chess.com/news/view/wesley-so-wins-2021-paris-rapid-blitz</ref>
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'''Wesley So''' (b. 1993), a daily [[Bible]] reader, won by a wide margin the Chess.com Global Championship in November 2022.<ref>https://www.chess.com/article/view/chesscom-global-championship-2022</ref>  Wesley So played in a spectacular manner to take his undefeated commanding lead into the final, where he then won.<ref>https://www.chess.com/news/view/2022-chesscom-global-championship-final-d1</ref>
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In the Chess.com Global Championship, Wesley So played in a spectacular manner to take an undefeated commanding lead into the final in November 2022.<ref>https://www.chess.com/news/view/2022-chesscom-global-championship-final-d1</ref>
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His record of many championships include winning the [[United States]] [[chess]] championship in October 2020 by playing with a sky-high performance rating of 2919.<ref>https://new.uschess.org/news/wesley-so-2020-us-chess-champion-after-crushing-performance</ref>  Wesley So has also been the world champion in [[Fischer Random Chess]], after routing [[Magnus Carlsen]] in the finals. On December 1, 2020, So also defeated Carlsen in the finals of the Skilling Open to win that tournament.  In June 2021, So dominated the annual Paris Rapid & Blitz tournament and won it easily, defeating his closest rival and the world #2 player Ian Nepomniachtchi ("Nepo") in the final round.<ref>https://www.chess.com/news/view/wesley-so-wins-2021-paris-rapid-blitz</ref>
    
So is considered the finest player in the 3|1 time control game of speed chess.<ref>https://www.chess.com/news/view/so-defeats-duda-with-incredible-3-1-performance-in-speed-chess</ref>  He has no known weaknesses at [[chess]].
 
So is considered the finest player in the 3|1 time control game of speed chess.<ref>https://www.chess.com/news/view/so-defeats-duda-with-incredible-3-1-performance-in-speed-chess</ref>  He has no known weaknesses at [[chess]].
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