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By Peter, August 11, 2010 3:17 pm

Chess at a surfer's paradise

Fancy Christmas on Australia’s famous Gold Coast? There is a chess tournament running from the 26th-30th December, with 90 min +30 sec time control, 9 rounds. More details at goldcoastchessfestival.com. Download their poster here

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By Henry, July 28, 2010 2:14 pm

After the 3rd day and sixth exciting rounds of the 8th BCC FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Thai junior chess player who went to Philippines to commpete and represent Thailand in CHESS Asian age group tournament was leading and needs only to draw his final round against 13 years Thai boy ( Suvich Tachaplalert; who is also performing very well) to win the championship trophy.  Poompong Witanadate who landed 2nd place of last year 7th BCC Rating Tournament had 5 points out of possible 6 points with 4 wins and 2 draws. He is still unbeaten and looks so strong going to the final round.

Suvich Tacaplalert with his age of 13 is showing a real and great talent in chess.  Among of the 8 participants in this round robin tournament, he was the only one who won over the two highest rated in this tournament. We still need to see on Friday if he can defeat the unbeaten player on this tournament.

The standings after 6th rounds

1. Poompong Witanadate    4 wins    2 draws 0 loses  with a total points of 5

2. Thotsaporn                           4 wins   1 draws  1 loses  with a total points of 4.5

3. Michael Culasing                 3 wins   1 draw    2 loses  with a total of 3.5

4. Suvich Tachaplalert           3 wins   1 draw    2 loses with a total of 3.5

5. Eric Calacday                        2 wins  1 draw     3 loses with a total of 2.5

6. Alex Klemm                           2 wins  0 draw   4 loses   with atotal of 2

7. Benoni Wabe                          2 wins  0 draw   4 loses with a total of 2

8. Pricha                                       1 win     0 draw    5 loses  with atotal of 1

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By Kai, July 22, 2010 8:39 am

Seen here with the Thai Airways Cabaret are Khun Smarn (TCA), GM Karpov, Khun Sahapol (TCA), Richard Conn Jr., and BCC President Kai Tuorila.

Seven-time World Chess Champion GM Anatoly Karpov and Richard A. Conn Jr., FIDE candidates for President and Deputy, dropped by briefly to Bangkok to meet TCA and BCC officials. Bangkok Chess Club wishes good luck for their election campaign, and is looking forward for “chessful” cooperation in the future.

More details on Karpov’s campaign can be found at www.karpov2010.org.

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By Ekasith, November 6, 2009 1:10 am

TCA has planned for FIDE Rating Tournament in November 2009 . Two weekends of Nov. 2009 , Swiss System 8 rounds ( 7-9 rounds ) ; Place ; a Hotel / Ratchaprarop Road ; Bangkok , not far from BTS station. Time control for each player = 90 Min + 30 Sec./ move ; Organizer ; TCA / Khun Sahapol with his supporting teams . Tentative name , Thailand Championship, we will finalize date and place as well as other details within / before 15 Oct. 2009

* * * * * * * * * UPDATE * * * * * * * * *

Dates:  18, 19, 21, 22 November

Venue: Arnoma Hotel, Rajprarob Road, Bangkok (opposite Central World)

This is not an open tournament – Thai nationals and foreign chess players who are resident in Thailand are invited.

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By lordnigel, September 15, 2009 11:59 am

BCC woodpushers dominated the Tamasart Chess Cup 2009 held at Tamasart University Campus Rangsit.

Top seeded Henry “The Destroyer” Calacday flashed his old deadly form, led a 1-2-3 finish via tie break of 5.5 points against fellow BCC members Paul “The Bullet” Elauria and Manolo “ The Silent Assassin” Salamida. The 38 year old Henry Elo 2046 led the rest of the field on the first day with a perfect score of four after four rounds stumbled to Urs Hasler of Switzerland on the first game of the second day but was able to bounce back quickly after a convincing win against his compatriot Manolo then drew his last round with Paul, enough to claim the championship trophy with the highest tie break. Also an impressive display of performance was Paul who had a shocking defeat against fellow Filipino Dean Binoya on the first round then won his next five assignments and drew the last to claim the second place. Manolo kept hanging around with his position since the first few rounds and gave his final blow by trouncing Sawapop on the last round and went home as the third best player of the tournament.

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By Peter, August 27, 2009 9:36 pm

Sorry about the down time. Sakab seems to be an Iranian malcontent with nothing better to do than pointlessly hack non-commercial websites. Hopefully he won’t be back.

He has, however, made me aware of the security issues with WordPress, so I suppose that is useful.