The Rise of Wesley So - World Chess No.2

It's been a wake up call since last year 2016 when Wesley So keep winning elite tournaments. Some major chess journalist had calling Wesley So the best chess player performed in 2016. Wesley's victories  in at least three super tournaments:  Sinquefield Cup 2016, London Chess 2016 and Tata Steel Chess 2017 had put Wesley So at world number 2 in FIDE rating list. I feel it is the time to see how the Phillipino boy ascending to the top, by compiling list of tournaments he had done, in over 10 years.

Wesley So Kampiun di turnament Tata Steel Chess 2017

List of Wesley So Major Tournaments Since 2007

Year	Tournament	Place	Notes
2017	Tata Steel Chess Masters	1st
2016	Grand Chess Tour London	1st
2016	Isle of Man Open	3rd	Won by Pavel Ejlanov and Fabiano Caruana
2016	Chess Olympiad Baku	1st	Wesley So 8.5/10 in USA team
2016	Sinquefield Cup St Louis	1st
2016	Bilbao Final Masters	3rd	Won by Magnus Carlsen
2016	Grand Chess Tour Leuven (Belgium)	5th	Won by Magnus Carlsen, blitz tournament
2016	Grand Chess Tour Paris	4th	Won by Hikaru Nakamura, rapid tournament
2016	China Match vs Ding Liren	2nd	Ding Liren won 2.5-1.5
2016	Ultimate Blitz Challenge	2nd	Hikaru, Wesley, Kasparov, Caruana
2016	US Championship	2nd	Won by Caruana, tied 2-3 with Nakamura
2016	Tata Steel Chess Masters	6th	Won by Magnus Carlsen
2015	Qatar Masters Open	18th	Won by Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So at 5.5/9
2015	Bilbao Final Masters	1st
2015	Millionaire Chess	2nd	Won by Hikaru Nakamura in tie break
2015	World Cup Baku		4th round lost to Maxime Vachier
2015	Sinquefield Cup St Louis	10th	Won by Levon Aronian
2015	Dortmund Sparkassen	2nd	Won by Fabiano Caruana
2015	CEZ Chess Trophy So vs Navara	1st	Wesley So wins 3:1
2015	Vugar Gashimov Memorial 2015	4th	Won by Magnus Carlsen
2015	US Championship	3rd	Won by Hikaru Nakamura
2015	Bunratty Chess Master	1st
2015	77th Tata Steel Chess Masters	4th	Won by Magnus Carlsen
2014	Millionaire Chess Open	1st
2014	2nd ACP Golden Classic	1st
2014	9th Edmonton International Chess	2nd	Won by Vassily Ivanchuk
2014	49th Capablanca Memorial	1st
2014	U.S.A. College Chess Final Four	1st	Wesley So in Webster team who won 1st place
2014	76th Tata Steel Chess Masters	6th	Won by Levon Aronian
2013	Pan American Intercollegiate CC	1st	Wesley So in Webster team who won 1st place
2013	17th Univé Crown Group Hoogeveen	1st
2013	World Cup Tromso		2nd round lost to Evgeny Tomashevsky
2013	Las Vegas International Chess	1st
2013	6th Calgary International Chess	1st
2013	U.S.A. College Chess Final Four	1st	Wesley So in Webster team who won 1st place
2013	Reykjavik Open	1st	Shared first by Pavel Ejlanov and Bassem Amin
2013	FiDE Zone 3.3	2nd	Won by Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son
2012	Pan American Intercollegiate CC	1st	Wesley So in Webster team who won 1st place
2012	Thanksgiving Open St Louis	4th	Won by Georg Meier, Fidel Jimenez, Denes Boros
2012	SPICE Cup	4th	Won by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
2012	40th Chess Olympiad  Tromso	21st	Wesley SO at 6.5/11 points
2012	Quebec Open Chess Championships	1st
2012	Toronto Chess International	1st
2012	World Open Philadelphia	3rd	Won by Ivan Sokolov
2012	French Chess Team Championship	1st	Wesley So at 4-5-1, team Clichy Echecs 92
2012	11th Asian Continental Chess	8th	Won by Negi Parimarjan
2011	Airports Authority	4th	Won by Fabiano Caruana
2011	Tata Steel Chess Group B	4th	Won by David Navara
2011	Aeroflot Open	86th	Won by Le Quang Liem
2011	10th Asian Individual Continent	11th	Won by Yu Yangyi
2011	19th Sigeman & Co Chess	1st	Shared first with Anish Giri, Hans Tikkanen
2011	Indonesia Open	6th	Won by Li Chao, Surya Ganguly
2011	World Cup		2nd round lost to Sergey Karjakin
2010	Corus Chess Group B	4th	Won by Anish Giri
2010	9th Aeroflot Open 2010	11th	Won by Le Quang Liem
2010	9th Asian Continental Chess	2nd	Won by Ni Hua
2010	Biel Chess Festival	5th	Won by Fabiano Caruana, blindfold and rapid
2010	Rising Star and Experience	7th	Won by Boris Gelfand
2010	Chess Olympiad Khanty-Mansiysk	50th	Wesley SO at 6.5/10 points
2010	SPICE Cup	3rd	Won by Alexander Onischuk
2009	Corus Chess Group C	1st
2009	Aeroflot Open	27th	Won by Etienne Bacrot
2009	Battle of Grandmaster Phillipines	1st
2009	8th Asian Continental	27th	Won by Surya Ganguly
2009	SPICE Cup	5th	Won by Dmitry Andreikin
2009	World Cup Khanty-Mansiysk		Round 4 Lost to Vladimir Malakhov
2008	Dubai Open	1st	Shared first with Li Chao, Merab G., Gaem M.E.
2008	Japfa Match vs Susanto Megaranto	1st	Wesley So won 4-2
2008	Battle of Grandmaster Phillipines	1st
2008	World Junior Gaziantep	9th	Won by Abhijet Gupta
2008	World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad	3rd	Phillipines won bronze, Wesley So board 1
2008	1st Dragon Capital Vietnam Open	3rd	Won by Le Quang Liem
2008	3rd PGMA Cup Intl. Open	7th	Won by Murtas Kazhgaleyev
2008	Chess Olympiad Dresden	46th	Wesley So Board 2 at 7/10
2008	4th Pichay Cup Intl Open	5th	Won by Li Shilong
2008	1st Asian Club Cup  at UAE	4th	Wesley So at 5.5/7
2007	7th Asian Individual Chess	23rd	Won by Zhang Pengxiang,  Wesley So still an IM
2007	World Junior U20 at Armenia	20th	Won by Ahmed Adly

Dozen of minor tournament, team, rapid and blitz were excluded as I have little infos on that.