Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Don haka an ba shi kyautar Samford Fellowship a watan Maris na 2016, wanda ya ba shi damar tabbatar da Vladimir Tukmakov a matsayin kocinsa. A watan Agusta 2016, So ya gama na farko a gasar cin kofin Sinquefield ta 2016, a gaban tsoffin zakarun duniya Viswanathan Anand da Veselin Topalov, Fabiano Caruana wanda ya lashe gasar 2014, da kuma Levon Aronian wanda ya lashe gasar 2015. Ya lashe wasanni 2 kuma ya buga wasanni 7. A watan Disamba na 2016, So kuma ya gama na farko a London Chess Classic na 2016, a gaban tsoffin zakarun duniya Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik da Veselin Topalov. Ya ci wasanni 3 kuma ya buga wasanni 6 (+3−0=6). Ta hanyar lashe gasar cin kofin Sinquefield, da London Chess Classic, da kuma kammala na biyu a gasar Your Next Move Leuven mai sauri da walƙiya, ya lashe gasar Grand Chess Tour ta 2016. So ta farko bayyanar ga Amurka bayar da mutum zinariya lambar yabo ga jirgin 3 da kuma tawagar zinariya a
An gudanar da gasar Olympics ta Chess a Baku.