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As the Sasin event took place on our regular Friday night blitz, the Royal Oak was freed up for the ongoing long game tournament. Note that FM Poompong is not blind, despite him using a braille scoresheet!
Sasin Chess Club has invited Bangkok Chess Club members to a special event involving a “fireside chat” with Thailand’s first International Master IM Prin Laohawirapop, and FM Riste Menkinowski, a stalwart of chess education in Thailand. It will be followed by simuls with the two masters, and then a blitz tournament with BCC and Sasin members.
In the above photo, IM Prin held GM Nigel Short to a draw in the 22nd BCC Open.
This is taking place instead of our regular chess night at The Royal Oak on March 6. There may be some players going to the normal club, especially for long games, but there will be no organised tournament.
The event takes place at Sasin School of Management (TK Hall) not far from the National Stadium BTS, starting at 5:30. The event is free to join, and should be a lot of fun. Scan the QR code in the poster to register.
At the time of publishing, we have 84 players registered for the 23rd BCC Open. It is a truly international tournament as already 33 countries are represented, including from as far afield as Brazil and New Zealand.
So far 11 Grandmasters have confirmed, including the defending champion Evgeny Romanov, and two former champions, Nigel D. Short and Surya Shekhar Ganguly.
We are expecting up to 350 players from 50 different countries to join us in Hua Hin.
Player lists have been published at the chess-results server, and will be updated weekly:
Add your name to the list to join Asia’s best open chess tournament.
