3rd Thailand Pattaya Open starts

by Peter Long - 10/10/2024

The third edition of Thailand Pattaya Open 2024 has started. Seniors and Youth events have already concluded. GM Lalit Rohit is the top seed in the Open section. IM Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh is the third seeded player. The top three prizes are THB 80000, 50000 and 30000. The nine-round Rating Open tournament is taking place at Pacific Park Sriracha Shopping Mall in Sriracha, Thailand from 9th to 18th October 2024. There is only one round per day. Rest day is on 12th October. Round 2 starts today at 1 p.m. local time, 11:30 a.m. IST. Photos: FM FT IA Peter Long

The tournament now in full swing at the Pacific Hall, Sriracha Pacific Park Mall

Actually, it is all a bit confusing to some as is it the Thailand Pattaya Open or the Pattaya Open or even the Pattaya Chess Club Open, perhaps all of these, but it is also not held in Pattaya but in Sriracha, some 30 km away?

Start of the play in the Open

Well, it does not matter, not even if it is really a chess festival the Seniors and Youth Championships was held from 5-9 October 2024 and the Open and Amateur is being held from 9-18 October 2024.

Seniors Winners

The Seniors saw a total of nine players, and so it was changed into a round-robin event with each player getting a bye.

It was always going to be a two-horse race, and top seeded John Langreck from the USA emerged the winner on tie-breaks over Malaysian - FM Ismail Ahmad, after both pulled away from the rest with 7/9. In sole third place was Geoffrey Brown from England with 5.5/9.

Final standings in Seniors

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	1		Langreck, John	USA	2035	7	1	6	24,00
2	4	FM	Ismail, Ahmad	MAS	1835	7	0	7	22,00
3	5		Brown, Geoffrey M	ENG	1814	5,5	0	4	15,50
4	7		Lim, Kian Hwa	MAS	1693	4,5	1	3	14,25
5	2		Zaw, Win	MYA	1977	4,5	0	4	10,25
6	6		Sakdavisarak, Komgrib	THA	1709	3	0	3	7,00
7	9		Osterhus, Omar Torbjorn	DEN	1588	2	1	2	2,50
8	3		Silalikhit, Jakkapan	THA	1836	2	0	1	5,50
9	8		Zamahari, Abang Draup	MAS	1590	0,5	0	0	1,00

Details

Shiny trophies

The Youth was had separate category prizes for U-8, U-10, U-12, U-14, and U-16, meaning that with 20 participants, everyone took home a trophy!

Murali Aurik (CYP) was both the overall winner with 8/9 as well as the U-12 Champion, and Thailand’s Limpetcharakul Nutnapon in third overall with 6.5/9 was the U-16 Champion while Tapanakulsak Peramin in fourth place overall with 5.5/9 was the U-14 Champion.

3rd Limpetcharakul Nutnapon 6.5/9

Final standings in Youth

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	2		Murali, Aurik	U12	CYP	1629	8	0	47	35,5
2	5		Vishesh, Srikant	U12	IND	1613	7	0	48,5	36,5
3	7	AFM	Limpetcharakul, Nutnapon	U16	THA	1545	6,5	0	46	36
4	1		Tapanakulsak, Peramin	U14	THA	1669	5,5	1	48,5	36,5
5	8		Punyanitya, Prempipath	U14	THA	1532	5,5	0	38,5	30,5

Details

The Open is now underway with 58 players from 21 countries, and has 9 titled players including the top two seeds, GMs Lalit Babu M R from India and Samy Shoker from Egypt.

GM Lalit Rohit

IM Arfan Aditya Bagus (INA)

Round 2 pairings

Bo.	No.		White	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Black	Rtg	No.
1	20		Zaw, Ye Htut	1933	1		1	GM	Lalit, Babu M R	2496	1
2	2	GM	Shoker, Samy	2456	1		1		Xu, Ziyuan	1966	17
3	22		Sivara, Poompat	1894	1		1	IM	Mohammad, Nubairshah Shaikh	2418	3
4	4	IM	Arfan, Aditya Bagus	2405	1		1		Tamhankar, Siddhant	1951	19
5	6	FM	Chernyavsky, Alexander	2339	1		1		Wang, Justin Zhide	1871	25
6	24		Wongsawan, Thoetsak	1886	1		1	WGM	Enkhtuul, Altan-Ulzii	2196	7
7	8	FM	Sai, Han Thiha	2194	1		1		He, Chenglu	1857	27
8	26		Krishay, Jain	1863	1		1	CM	Nay, Lin Tun	2058	9
9	10		Bruun, Henrik Emil	2031	1		1		Lum, Zhun Hoong	1795	33
10	12		Skiotis, Pano	1998	1		1		Pian, Junyao	1715	42

Details

The Amateur has 13 participants.

Kamaluddin Yusof (MAS)

The organiser is Golden Cat, seen hard at work with Chief Arbiter Maung Maung Lwin, with registrations and pairing handled by Bowtie.

Golden Cat and Maung Maung Lwin

Links

Tournament details

Pattaya Chess Club fb page

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