Moscow, December 03: After accounting for big guns like Vassily Ivanchuk and Gata Kamksy, Filipino super talent Wesley So found his nemesis in Russian Vladimir Malakhov, who defeated the teenager in the first set of rapid tie-breaker to win the match by a 4-1 margin.
Italian teenager Caruana Fabiano of Italy also went down in the rapid games against second seed Vugar Gashimov.
It was an almost identical loss for both Wesley and Caruana. While Wesley lost the first three of the four tiebreak games, Caruana was out done in two besides the lone draw he could manage against his Azerbaijani opponent.
–PTI