Filipino Grandmaster (GM) Wesley So scored a pair of draws and a win in the first three rounds to share the second spot with four other players in the 2017 Tata Steel Masters Chess Tournament being held in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands.

So, currently ranked fourth in the world, split the point with defending champion GM Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the opening round and GM Anish Giri of the Netherlands in the second round then outclass GM Richard Rapport of Hungary in the third round.

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