AT 14 years of age, Filipino Wesley So looks like just any ordinary kid. But at this young age, he has become the world’s seventh youngest Grandmaster of all time.
In an interview with INQUIRER.net online videographer Janie Christine Octia, So talks about the sport and describes his daily training sessions that takes about 6 to 7 hours. Octia caught up with So at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport 2 before his flight to Vietnam for another chess tournament.
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Ding Estraza
Due to the fast advent of computer technology, learning chess is as easy as ABC. In the past, it takes time to learn the basic of chess. It takes a lot of money to buy chess books and patient to study it. Skills improve more by joining tournaments both local and abroad which usually cost you a lot. Hence, very few can be able to sustain to become a national master, international master and eventually a grandmaster. However, things now are easy, you can improve your skill at young age through various chess software and on-line game, hence a possibility of greatly improving the game.
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