Unfortunately, GM Wesley So failed to deliver the supposedly biggest upset in the second round of the World Chess Cup 2011 vs. the top seed GM Sergey Karjakin.
The second round between So and Karjakin started silently with draws for the first two standard games. It went to the tie-break with a draw in the first game while So was playing white. When it was Karjakin's turn to play white, So committed a bad move at his 21st move. The game immediately wound up to the end game where Karjakin is up by a pawn, and eventually won the game.
This will send Wesley So packing for the Philippines. While there are no more Filipinos bidding in the tournament, we can now concentrate on analyzing some of the good games here.
an honor for the country
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