Bangkok Chess Club invites you to 22nd BCC Open 2025
The 22nd Bangkok Chess Club Open will take place in Bangkok, Thailand from 13th to 21st April 2025. The first prize in Open group is 100000 Baht. There are prizes for the top ten and five best players from Thailand Chess Association. The top five in the Challengers (Below 2000) will receive a prize each. That's not all, there is a Blitz event on 16th and 17th April which is played in two stages. Join this tournament where utmost care is given to the playing conditions. 7 GMs, 3 IMs and a WIM have already confirmed their participation. The tournament takes place during Songkran festival. So you can enjoy the fantastic tournament along with experiencing the most special festival of Thailand. FM FT IA Peter Long writes about this event. Photo: Bangkok Chess Club
The Bangkok Open returns!
The Bangkok Chess Club (BCC) Open will be held this year in Bangkok at the Royal Orchid Sheraton Riverside Hotel from 13th to 21st April 2025.
Now in it's 22nd Edition, the BCC Open has now completed it's normalization post Global COVID-19 pandemic with a return to it's traditional dates.
The BCC Open has always had a unique identity in offering the most luxurious event together with the best environment possible that all can play in and accordingly the BCC Open is held as two separate events, the Open, and the Challengers
Seven GMs, three IMs and a WIM immediately registered from the 45 so far in the Open, including two former champions in Nigel Short and Surya Sekhar Ganguly while 17 have so far registered in the Challengers.
| Title | Name | FIDE ID | Fed | ELO | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GM | Short | Nigel D | 400025 | ENG | 2594 |
| 2 | GM | Ganguly | Surya Shekhar | 5002150 | IND | 2578 |
| 3 | GM | Mitrabha | Guha | 5057000 | IND | 2509 |
| 4 | GM | Gordon | Stephen J | 411477 | ENG | 2497 |
| 5 | GM | Lalit Babu M R | 5024595 | IND | 2495 | |
| 6 | GM | Kraus | Tomas | 331708 | CZE | 2444 |
| 7 | GM | Laylo | Darwin | 5201330 | PHI | 2390 |
| 8 | IM | Budhidharma | Nayaka | 7106955 | INA | 2356 |
| 9 | IM | Utsab Chatterjee | 46609148 | IND | 2307 | |
| 10 | WIM | Latifah | Laysa | 7111541 | INA | 2287 |
| 11 | FM | Asik | Josip | 916030 | SRB | 2284 |
| 12 | FM | Rechmann | Peter | 4601165 | GER | 2220 |
| 13 | IM | Damia | Angelo | 812668 | ITA | 2215 |
| 14 | Wei | Yuyang | 8600171 | CHN | 2138 | |
| 15 | Casiguran | Phil Martin | 5239397 | PHI | 2116 | |
As always, the BCC Open is a truly international event and we already have representation from 25 countries.
Participants will be in for the best possible Bangkok experience as not only in the Sheraton one of the very best hotels, but its very location on the banks of the Chao Phraya River is next to River City.
Directly across is Icon Siam and the Sheraton provides a boat shuttle service for guests Icon Siam, one of the world’s greatest shopping malls, and which is part of the Chao Phraya Tourist Boat experience that visits practically all of Bangkok’s major attractions from the Grand Palace and Wat Pho to the Temple of the Dawn, Khaosan Road and Chinatown, and Asiatique.
Google these and also Songkran Water Festival, Thailand’s biggest annual event, which as always the BCC Open coincides with, and be amazed!
Please go to the official website to get all details and make your registration
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You can also download the BCC Open 2024 magazine.
Check out the hotel photos here.
Links
Bangkok Chess Club: Official site, fb page, youtube and tiktok
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