Filipino Grandmaster (GM) Wesley So placed second overall in the 2016 Grand Chess Tour Leuven held at the Catholic University Leuven, the oldest catholic university in the world located in east of Brussels, Belgium.

So collected a combined score of 20.5 points - 11 points in rapid and 9.5 points in blitz - to pocket the $30,000 runner-up prize.

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