Wesley So’s long unbeaten streak ended in the first round of the Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir, Azerbaijan. The World #2 blundered horribly in a near-equal position against Shakhriyar Mamedaryov to register his first loss after going 69 games unbeaten against high-quality opposition. In a sense, it’s a monkey off his back. So isn’t doing that well at the Gashimov Memorial. This is a round robin with 10 players, including So, Vladimir Kramnik, Veselin Topalov, Sergei Karjakin, Michael Adams, Pavel Eljanov, Radek Wojtaszek, Pentalya Harikrishna and local ...
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