Thursday, January 15, 2009

Wesley So favorite to win Corus Chess Group C

A few days ago, Peter Dogger's ChessVibes conducted a poll on who will win the Corus C this year. Out of 594 respondents, 226 (38%) believe that group's no. 1 seed, GM Wesley So will top this years edition of Corus group C. Far second is perennial rival GM David Howell of England who garnered 89 votes (18%), third is Swedish GM Tiger Hillarp Persson with 74 votes (12%) and fourth in the poll is the current world junior champion, GM Abhijeet Gupta of India with 44 votes (7%).

CH wishes GM So all the best in the world!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Good luck Wesley! God bless.