Filipino Grandmaster (GM) Wesley So blasted GM Sergey Karjakin of Russia in the sixth round to occupy the second spot in the ongoing 2017 Shamkir Chess-Gashimov Memorial Chess Championship at the Heydar Aliyev Center in Shamkir, Azerbaijan.

The 23-year-old So scored his second victory in the nine-round tournament after 64 moves of an English showdown.

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