Suvich Tachaplalert got an amazing 7/7 in Malaysian Open rapid chess event in under-14 category last Sunday. He is the first ever Thai to win any kind of open international chess event outside Thailand. There were 34 players in his category.
A very well organised tournament, featuring 67 Thai and international children aged 10-17, concluded successfully on Sunday. Grandmaster Gerhard Schebler was on hand to award the prizes.
The largest group was the under-12s (36 players), showing immense powers of concentration and generally good discipline. This bodes very well for chess in Thailand.
Although there were typically few girls competing, Worasuda Atthaworadej was outstanding in the under-12 group finishing second with an unbeaten 4.5/5.
In the under-18s, Thanadon Kulpruethanon produced some excellent chess, winning all his games. Also playing well was the 17 year old Thai girl, Ruja Pichayarom, finishing in third place with 3.5/5.
Congratulations to FM Jirapak, the tournament organiser, Thai-Nichi College for providing the venue, and Chess4thai for sponsorship.
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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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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