# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wesley-so
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:24:15.219Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wesley-so"
name: "Wesley So"
slug: "wesley-so"
description: "Wesley Barbossa So is a Filipino-American chess grandmaster, a three-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the first World Fischer Random Chess Champion. He is also a three-time Philippine Chess Champion. On the March 2017 FIDE rating list, he was ranked number two in the world and had an Elo rating of 2822, making him the fifth-highest-rated player in history."
tagline: "Filipino-American chess player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wesley_So_in_2023.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1993-10-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             10
  historical:           21.62530533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "wesleyso"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.wesleyso.com"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump