Tag Archives: 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 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