GM Wesley So will play GM Arkadij Naiditsch of Germany in the first round of the Corus B Tournament in Wijk Aan Zee, Holland.
The 24 year old Naiditsch (ELO 2687) is originally from Latvia and became a grandmaster in 2001. The 16 year old So won the Corus Group C last year.
Another Filipino GM Bong Villamayor has been tapped to do live commentary by the website chessdom.com.
Corus Group B participants are all GMs. They include Ni Hua of China,; Emil Sutovsky of Israel, Pentala Harikrishna of India, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu of Romania, Varuzhan Akobian of the USA, David Howell of England, Parimarjan Negi of India, Tomi Nyback of Finland, Anna Muzychuk of Slovenia, and Erwin l?Ami, Dimitri Reinderman and Anish Giri of the Netherlands
