2017 Bangkok Open

[Chris Rice]

Nigel Short won a nice game in Round 4 as Black against a London System to go to 3½/4 in this nine round event. Very popular event http://www.chessdom.com/17th-bangkok-chess-club-open/

[Chris Rice]

Nigel won another great game today to go to 4½/5. At present there are two others on that score Jan Gustafsson (2626) and Anton Shomoev (2543) but round 5 isn't finished yet and its possible that another three players could join them on this score.

[Chris Rice]

Nigel currently playing Black against the Russian, Shomoev (2543) on Board 1 of Round 6. https://www.chessbomb.com/arena/2017-17 ... rt_Nigel_D

[Tim Harding]

Nigel drew today so is in a group of at least six who are half a point behind the sole leader, chess24 media star RadioJan [Gustafsson].
Wang Hao is one of those on the same score.
Probably there are more players on 5/6 as chess24 is not yet showing score updates for players on 4/5 who were not on live boards.

As of 2.15pm BST there are not yet pairings for tomorrow on chess24 but they are probably available on chess-results if anyone cares to search and post the link?

[David Sedgwick]

As of 2.15pm BST there are not yet pairings for tomorrow on chess24 but they are probably available on chess-results if anyone cares to search and post the link?

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr273291.aspx?lan=1

[Chris Rice]

Nigel's rd 7 game against Armenian GM, Karen Grigoryan (2559) now in progress

[LawrenceCooper]

Nigel's rd 7 game against Armenian GM, Karen Grigoryan (2559) now in progress

A nice win from Nigel should ensure that he will be joint leader on 6/7.

[Chris Rice]

Nigel's rd 7 game against Armenian GM, Karen Grigoryan (2559) now in progress

A nice win from Nigel should ensure that he will be joint leader on 6/7.

1-4 Gustafsson, Short, Sengupta, Rozum 6/7

[Mick Norris]

Sengupta - Short & Gustafsson - Rozum in round 8

[Chris Rice]

Sengupta-Short underway

[Tim Harding]

Gustafsson drew; Schebler and Rozum also on 6.5/8.
Nigel looks like he may have bluffed his way to a win from a much worse position thanks to exploiting Sengupta's zeitnot.
Still very complicated, though, as Nigel thinks about move 46. If he can win he will be sole leader.

LATER: now at move 50, Nigel has Q, B+6P v Q,R, 2P. He is just shuffling around making minor improvements to his position and creating sneaky threats while Sengupta is struggling to maintain his blockade and defend on increment. At move 41 he could have just allowed Nigel to take perpetual (unless Black had other ideas in the position.)

Chess24 is showing White's time as zero so he may even have lost on time; it's never clear with these relays whether the clock times shown are accurate.

EVEN LATER: Game is continuing. Deep Sengupta has grabbed a pawn and given a check but Nigel now has a very big pawn on d3. But he has to be a little careful where he puts his king and his own time is running low (spent over 6 minutes on replying to the check). His 52nd move may have been slightly inaccurate.

[LawrenceCooper]

Nigel wins to take the outright lead after a hard fought game

[LawrenceCooper]

Round 9 on 2017/04/16 at 09:00
Bo. No. Name Typ FED Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Typ FED Rtg No.
1 2 GM Short Nigel D ENG 2683 7 6½ GM Rozum Ivan RUS 2600 5
2 28 GM Schebler Gerhard GER 2387 6½ 6½ GM Gustafsson Jan GER 2626 3

[LawrenceCooper]

A last round draw sufficed for Nigel to finish as outright winner on 7.5/9.

1 Short, Nigel D 7½/9
2= Rozum, Gustafsson, Schebler, Shomoev 7/9

[Chris Rice]

Think it would be nice to finish up this thread and look back once gain on that epic round 8 game.

Sengupta, Deep (IND) - Short, Nigel D (ENG)
17th Bangkok Chess Open 2017 round 081. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nxc6 bxc6 6. e5 Qe7 7. Qe2 Nd5 8. c4 Nb6 9. Nc3 a5 10. Qe4 g6 11. Bd3 Bg7 12. O-O O-O 13. f4 Ba6 14. Be3 f5 15. exf6 Qxf6 16. f5 d5 17. Qg4 g5 18. Rad1 Rae8 19. Bc5 Bxc4 20. Bxf8 Kxf8 21. Qg3 Re7 22. b3 Qxc3 23. f6 Bxf6 24. bxc4 Rf7 25. Rf3 Nxc4 26. Bxc4 Qxc4 27. Qf2 Kg7 28. Kh1 Rf8 29. Rf1 Bd4 30. Rf7+ Kh6 31. Qe1 Rxf7 32. Rxf7 Be5 33. Qb1 Bg7 34. h3 d4 35. Qf5 Qe2 36. g4 Qe1+ 37. Kg2 Qe2+ 38. Kg1 Qe1+ 39. Kg2 Qe2+ 40. Kg1 Qe1+ 41. Qf1 Qg3+ 42. Qg2 Qd6 43. Rf3 c5 44. Qe2 Bf6 45. h4 gxh4 46. Qc4 Kg7 47. Kf1 Qc6 48. Kf2 h6 49. a4 Qd6 50. Kf1 c6 51. Rf5 d3 52. Qxc5 Qe6 53. Qa7+ Kg6 54. Qf2 Bg5 55. Qf3 d2 56. Kg2 Qd6 57. Qb3 Qg3+ 58. Qxg3 hxg3 59. Rf1 c5 60. Kf3 c4 61. Ke2 c3 62. Kd3 Bf6 0-1