13th Bangkok Open

The tournament enters its eight round today. After seven rounds there are three leaders with six points, Danish GM Hansen Sune Berg, Australian GM Zhao Zong-Yuan and German GM Schebler Gerhard who is a long time resident in Thailand.

There is a video of one of the rounds and you can view the tournament hall here.

GM Nigel Short lost early in round three to IM Roy Saptarshi. A short interview with Saptarshi on his win can be seen here. Saptarshi was lucky against Australian GM Zhao Zong-Yuan. The former was quite lost but somehow the Australian GM messed up.

Saptarshi is still undefeated with 5.5 points and heading for a GM norm. He plays Indonesian GM Megaranto in round eight.

The best Malaysian is IM Mas with 5 points followed by Yeoh Li Tian with 4.5 points.