Thailand Open Chess Championship 2011

This relatively strong event finished with a tie:

1 GM Gustafsson Jan GER 2647 7.5 55.0 45.00 6
2 GM Short Nigel D ENG 2676 7.5 54.0 42.75 7
3 GM Vallejo Pons Fran ESP 2707 7.5 53.5 43.00 6

Later on we have:

4 FM Voigt Martin GER 2325 7.0 47.5 35.25 5
5 IM Yang Kaiqi CHN 2399 7.0 47.5 34.50 7
6 GM Sriram Jha IND 2442 6.5 52.5 35.50 5
7 GM Hansen Sune Berg DEN 2603 6.5 49.0 34.25 5
8 FM Illingworth Max AUS 2345 6.5 48.5 33.00 5
9 IM Saptarshi Roy IND 2395 6.5 46.0 31.25 6
10 IM Palit Somak IND 2378 6.5 43.0 30.50 6
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Thailand Open Chess Championship 2011

Thailand Open Chess Championship in under way. The event is not very strong although there are few very well known names.

Check out the first 10 rated players:

1 GM Vallejo Pons Fran ESP 2707
2 GM Short Nigel D ENG 2676
3 GM Gustafsson Jan GER 2647
4 GM Hansen Sune Ber DEN 2603
5 GM Bakre Tejas IND 2530
6 GM Kunte Abhijit IND 2526
7 GM Schebler Gerhard GER 2460
8 GM Murshed Niaz BAN 2455
9 GM Sriram Jha IND 2442
10 FM Sklyarov Dmitry V RUS 2415

Short is leading the event with 5.5 out of 6 while 5 players are on 5 points.

More info on the event is here