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This chess prodigy is the eighth youngest person in chess history to achieve the Grandmaster title, becoming GM at the age of 14 years, 1 month and 28 days. Wesley started learning chess at the age of six, and began competing in junior tournaments at nine.

He is currently ranked 60th in the world, boasting an Elo rating of 2673 as of January 2011.

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But the 12-year-old chess whiz, who became the youngest Filipino player to make it to the Olympiad team, will have his hands full when he faces Farid Abbasov of Azerbaijan in the second round.
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                    [Summary] => 

This chess prodigy is the eighth youngest person in chess history to achieve the Grandmaster title, becoming GM at the age of 14 years, 1 month and 28 days. Wesley started learning chess at the age of six, and began competing in junior tournaments at nine.

He is currently ranked 60th in the world, boasting an Elo rating of 2673 as of January 2011.

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But the 12-year-old chess whiz, who became the youngest Filipino player to make it to the Olympiad team, will have his hands full when he faces Farid Abbasov of Azerbaijan in the second round.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) ) )
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