The 13th Bangkok Chess Club Open Tournament will be played from 14th to 21st of April in Pattaya, Thailand.
The tournament is organized by the Bangkok Chess Club and the playing venue is 5-star Dusit Thani Pattaya Resort.
Top rated Grandmasters are Nigel Short ENG 2690 (last year winner), Levente Vajda ROM 2632, Jan Gustafsson GER 2621 (winner in 2011), Humpy Koneru IND 2597, Sune Berg Hansen DEN 2566, Jozsef Horvath HUN 2538, Zong-Yuan Zhao AUS 2537, Adam Horvath HUN 2509, M.R. Venkatesh IND 2501 and Attila Czebe HUN 2488.
Dusit Thani Pattaya - the lagoon at sunset
There are two groups of play: Open category for all players, and Challenger category for players rated below 2100 or unrated (ratings based on FIDE or Thai ELO ratings – other national ratings will be validated by the organizer). When registering, players must indicate in which group they wish to play.
Both groups will be played using the Swiss System, with 9 rounds for Open, and 7 rounds for Challenger. For the pairings, a Swiss Manager program will be used.
Nigel Short will be the first seed
Participants – Open category:
| 1 | GM | Short Nigel D | ENG | 2697 |
| 2 | GM | Vajda Levente | ROU | 2632 |
| 3 | GM | Gustafsson Jan | GER | 2621 |
| 4 | GM | Koneru Humpy | IND | 2597 |
| 5 | GM | Barbosa Oliver | PHI | 2563 |
| 6 | GM | Lu Shanglei | CHN | 2562 |
| 7 | GM | Hansen Sune Berg | DEN | 2561 |
| 8 | GM | Paragua Mark | PHI | 2557 |
| 9 | GM | Megaranto Susanto | INA | 2541 |
| 10 | GM | Zhao Zong-Yuan | AUS | 2537 |
| 11 | GM | Horvath Jozsef | HUN | 2534 |
| 12 | GM | Antonio Rogelio Jr | PHI | 2527 |
| 13 | GM | Horvath Adam | HUN | 2509 |
| 14 | GM | Venkatesh M.R. | IND | 2508 |
| 15 | IM | Wan Yunguo | CHN | 2494 |
| 16 | GM | Laylo Darwin | PHI | 2491 |
| 17 | IM | Wang Chen | CHN | 2485 |
| 18 | GM | Czebe Attila | HUN | 2479 |
| 19 | GM | Gao Rui | CHN | 2475 |
| 20 | GM | Varga Zoltan | HUN | 2472 |
| 21 | GM | Akesson Ralf | SWE | 2462 |
| 22 | GM | Torre Eugenio | PHI | 2462 |
| 23 | GM | Schebler Gerhard | GER | 2445 |
| 24 | GM | Toufighi Homayoon | IRI | 2440 |
| 25 | IM | Saptarshi Roy | IND | 2426 |
| 26 | IM | Illingworth Max | AUS | 2423 |
| 27 | GM | Sriram Jha | IND | 2421 |
| 28 | IM | Bijaoui Manuel | FRA | 2416 |
| 29 | IM | Thejkumar M. S. | IND | 2412 |
| 30 | GM | Gonzales Jayson | PHI | 2405 |
| 31 | GM | Bitoon Richard | PHI | 2403 |
| 32 | IM | Lavrov Maxim | RUS | 2403 |
| 33 | IM | Stokke Kjetil | NOR | 2403 |
| 34 | IM | Irwanto Sadikin | INA | 2401 |
| 35 | IM | Wahono Awam | INA | 2397 |
| 36 | IM | Akshat Khamparia | IND | 2393 |
| 37 | WGM | Bulmaga Irina | ROU | 2389 |
| 38 | WGM | Sukandar Irine Kharisma | INA | 2388 |
| 39 | FM | Aguera Naredo Javier | ESP | 2385 |
| 40 | IM | Ponomarev Dmitry | RUS | 2382 |
| 41 | Ma Zhonghan | CHN | 2372 | |
| 42 | IM | Yang Kaiqi | CHN | 2371 |
| 43 | FM | Menkinoski Riste | MKD | 2370 |
| 44 | IM | Contin Daniel | ITA | 2366 |
| 45 | FM | Voigt Martin | GER | 2364 |
| 46 | IM | Abu Sufian Shakil | BAN | 2362 |
| 47 | GM | Ziatdinov Raset | USA | 2356 |
| 48 | GM | Ghane Shojaat | IRI | 2341 |
| 49 | IM | Mas Hafizulhelmi | MAS | 2341 |
| 50 | GM | Rantanen Yrjo A. | FIN | 2339 |
| 51 | FM | Novita Anjas | INA | 2335 |
| 52 | FM | Juhasz Kristof | HUN | 2330 |
| 53 | IM | Farid Firman Syah | INA | 2327 |
| 54 | FM | Andreasen Per Naesby | DEN | 2304 |
| 55 | FM | Jayakumar Adarsh | USA | 2294 |
| 56 | Purushothaman T | IND | 2293 | |
| 57 | FM | Pitra Andika | INA | 2292 |
| 58 | FM | Bisby Daniel L | ENG | 2288 |
| 59 | IM | Nay Oo Kyaw Tun | MYA | 2286 |
| 60 | Musaev Rasul | RUS | 2286 | |
| 61 | FM | Teerapabpaisit Wisuwat | THA | 2284 |
| 62 | FM | Pitirotjirathon Jirapak | THA | 2283 |
| 63 | Kozelov Roman | UKR | 2281 | |
| 64 | FM | Aschenbrenner Robert | AUT | 2276 |
| 65 | Mu Ke | CHN | 2274 | |
| 66 | Causo Deniel | PHI | 2271 | |
| 67 | Yeoh Li Tian | MAS | 2266 | |
| 68 | FM | Frosch Erich | AUT | 2264 |
| 69 | Villanueva Nelson | PHI | 2261 | |
| 70 | Tuomala Timo | FIN | 2253 | |
| 71 | FM | Soozankar A.M. | IRI | 2250 |
| 72 | FM | Thompson Ian D | ENG | 2250 |
| 73 | FM | Reilly Tim | AUS | 2243 |
| 74 | Rishi Sardana | IND | 2232 | |
| 75 | WGM | Kulkarni Bhakti | IND | 2231 |
| 76 | Frosch Ronald | AUT | 2220 | |
| 77 | FM | Zhao Zhouqiao Chn | CHN | 2219 |
| 78 | Steinbrecht Ralf | GER | 2214 | |
| 79 | WIM | Abdumalik Zhansaya | KAZ | 2209 |
| 80 | FM | Sauravh Khherdekar | IND | 2206 |
| 81 | Imocha Laishram | IND | 2204 | |
| 82 | Portugalera Ric | PHI | 2204 | |
| 83 | Pranav Vijay | IND | 2204 | |
| 84 | CM | Marie Maxime | FRA | 2200 |
| 85 | Amini Amer | IRI | 2200 | |
| 86 | Kivimaki Jaakko | FIN | 2197 | |
| 87 | Shukin Andrey | RUS | 2185 | |
| 88 | CM | Puranik Abhimanyu | IND | 2183 |
| 89 | Bykov Mikhail | RUS | 2182 | |
| 90 | Chubukin Alexander | RUS | 2181 | |
| 91 | Hj Sulaiman Amir Fakhry | BRU | 2180 | |
| 92 | Rom Jasper B | PHI | 2176 | |
| 93 | Vospernik Andrej | SLO | 2170 | |
| 94 | Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh | IND | 2166 | |
| 95 | Zulfic Fedja | AUS | 2166 | |
| 96 | Wang Doudou | CHN | 2165 | |
| 97 | Bao Qilin | CHN | 2163 | |
| 98 | Suharto Moh Wahyu Repelita | INA | 2162 | |
| 99 | Romsdal Trond | NOR | 2159 | |
| 100 | Peng Xiongjian | CHN | 2156 | |
| 101 | Barretto Franz | PHI | 2153 | |
| 102 | Liu Yan | CHN | 2149 | |
| 103 | WFM | Xiao Yiyi | CHN | 2148 |
| 104 | Stepanov Andrey | RUS | 2148 | |
| 105 | Bitoon Jimson | PHI | 2145 | |
| 106 | Tobor Detlef | GER | 2143 | |
| 107 | Fang Yuxiang | CHN | 2141 | |
| 108 | CM | Kananub Warot | THA | 2139 |
| 109 | Chen Yang | CHN | 2139 | |
| 110 | Kalugampitiya R S | SRI | 2137 | |
| 111 | Doostkam P | IRI | 2134 | |
| 112 | Nayan Ahmad Fadzil | MAS | 2128 | |
| 113 | WIM | Xu Huahua | CHN | 2124 |
| 114 | FM | Gholami Aryan | IRI | 2123 |
| 115 | Tuorila Kai | FIN | 2123 | |
| 116 | Dubina Pavel | CZE | 2122 | |
| 117 | Manaog Stewart | PHI | 2121 | |
| 118 | Sewambar Ashwin | TPE | 2121 | |
| 119 | Gonzalez Gonzalez Alfonso | ESP | 2117 | |
| 120 | Wang Xinyue | CHN | 2117 | |
| 121 | Kulpruethanon Thanadon | THA | 2114 | |
| 122 | Langer Christian | GER | 2110 | |
| 123 | Ilmoni Tommy | FIN | 2109 | |
| 124 | Thanatipanonda Thotsaporn | THA | 2109 | |
| 125 | Karthik V. Ap | IND | 2093 | |
| 126 | WFM | Qiu Mengjie | CHN | 2088 |
| 127 | Hj Azahari Md Aliuddin | BRU | 2087 | |
| 128 | Galindo Joseph | PHI | 2081 | |
| 129 | Wong Jianwen | MAS | 2076 | |
| 130 | Gurevich Alexander Y. | RUS | 2074 | |
| 131 | Noguchi Koji | JPN | 2072 | |
| 132 | Hoffman Ron | NED | 2060 | |
| 133 | Ismail Ahmad | MAS | 2059 | |
| 134 | Alahakoon Isuru | SRI | 2057 | |
| 135 | Freuler Roman | SUI | 2055 | |
| 136 | Liu Hongyan | CHN | 2047 | |
| 137 | Wiwatanadate Poompong | THA | 2044 | |
| 138 | Chong Chor Yuen | HKG | 2042 | |
| 139 | Samaganova Alexandra | KGZ | 2040 | |
| 140 | Sollid Stein | NOR | 2039 | |
| 141 | Hj Azahari Siti Nur Fatimah | BRU | 2037 | |
| 142 | Rohan Ahuja | IND | 2031 | |
| 143 | Zulkifli Muhd Syazwan | MAS | 2028 | |
| 144 | Xu Ruoying | CHN | 2027 | |
| 145 | Soh Zee Wee | MAS | 2025 | |
| 146 | Fong Yit San | MAS | 2024 | |
| 147 | Xiao Junyuan | CHN | 2019 | |
| 148 | Brunner Karl | SUI | 2012 | |
| 149 | Sellmair Reinhard | GER | 2010 | |
| 150 | Ferdiman Tersiman | INA | 2009 | |
| 151 | Grebstad Kjell Borre | NOR | 2009 | |
| 152 | Fong Yit Ho | MAS | 2006 | |
| 153 | Harstad Christian | NOR | 1995 | |
| 154 | Sivara Poompat | THA | 1994 | |
| 155 | Klemm Alexander | SUI | 1987 | |
| 156 | Xu Fei | CHN | 1982 | |
| 157 | Katajainen Kimmo | FIN | 1976 | |
| 158 | Zhang Lanlin | CHN | 1974 | |
| 159 | Borigas Edgardo | HKG | 1972 | |
| 160 | Alidani Leonardo | PHI | 1969 | |
| 161 | Frederiksen Erik | DEN | 1968 | |
| 162 | Tuamsang Sawapop | THA | 1967 | |
| 163 | Nolly Cabilas | PHI | 1964 | |
| 164 | Yutithamnon Surapole | THA | 1956 | |
| 165 | Laurain Dominique | FRA | 1953 | |
| 166 | Bondarenko Dmitry | RUS | 1952 | |
| 167 | Akharaboollasez Akharin | THA | 1938 | |
| 168 | Wattanarat Pasawon | THA | 1935 | |
| 169 | Yothinnorratham Tepparit | THA | 1934 | |
| 170 | CM | Nitish Belurkar | IND | 1931 |
| 171 | WCM | Tejaswini Sagar | IND | 1917 |
| 172 | WCM | Savant Riya | IND | 1913 |
| 173 | Darby Peter | ENG | 1900 | |
| 174 | Hehenberger Adolf | AUT | 1900 | |
| 175 | Limono Handjojo | INA | 1897 | |
| 176 | Hilbenz Guntram Dr. | GER | 1888 | |
| 177 | Sriphutkiat Yannapol | THA | 1881 | |
| 178 | Thanarotrung Ratchaphon | THA | 1877 | |
| 179 | Trinkl Andreas | GER | 1863 | |
| 180 | Bianchi Simone | SUI | 1859 | |
| 181 | Nakvanich Sahapol | THA | 1857 | |
| 182 | Wettasinha Vasanta | SRI | 1847 | |
| 183 | Koivumaki Marko | FIN | 1844 | |
| 184 | Le Bris Louis | FRA | 1842 | |
| 185 | Culasing Michael | PHI | 1837 | |
| 186 | Maneeratanasak Chanavuth | THA | 1837 | |
| 187 | Balasubramanian Akshaj | IND | 1833 | |
| 188 | Sharmin Samiha Shimmi | BAN | 1833 | |
| 189 | Raja Harshit | IND | 1831 | |
| 190 | Karami Mohammad | IRI | 1828 | |
| 191 | Zhou Jiangnan | CHN | 1827 | |
| 192 | Wongsawan Thoetsak | THA | 1824 | |
| 193 | McCready Mark | ENG | 1809 | |
| 194 | Tachaplalert Suvich | THA | 1804 | |
| 195 | Bijaoui Denis | FRA | 1791 | |
| 196 | Campi William | USA | 1788 | |
| 197 | Sakdavisarak Komgrib | THA | 1788 | |
| 198 | Karasmaki Seppo | FIN | 1782 | |
| 199 | Petchrongrusamee Pornpong | THA | 1759 | |
| 200 | Tan Jun Ying | MAS | 1740 | |
| 201 | Srivatanakul Pricha | THA | 1726 | |
| 202 | Atthaworadej Woradej | THA | 1720 | |
| 203 | Chan Yi Meng Ryan | MAS | 1689 | |
| 204 | Mamyrbay Assad | KAZ | 1686 | |
| 205 | WCM | Atthaworadej Worasuda | THA | 1678 |
| 206 | Low Zhen Yu Cyrus | SIN | 1670 | |
| 207 | Kumar Sri Shiva | MAS | 1654 | |
| 208 | Tan Tze Lin Tommy | SIN | 1653 | |
| 209 | Lie Terje | NOR | 1610 | |
| 210 | Aryan Haribhau Kawade | IND | 1543 | |
| 211 | Sonowal Aryan | IND | 1437 | |
| 212 | Savarkar Narendra | IND | 1250 | |
| 213 | Sugeng Mulijanto | INA | 2033 | |
| 214 | Gutierrez Jaymarc | PHI | 2017 | |
| 215 | Llantada Kyz | PHI | 1969 | |
| 216 | Peligros Rhenell | PHI | 1903 | |
| 217 | Cabusora Rosulo Jr. | PHI | 1880 | |
| 218 | Parrott Laurence | ENG | 1796 | |
| 219 | Abaigar Michael | PHI | 1770 | |
| 220 | Jotee Ashvin | MRI | 1711 | |
| 221 | Tan Kok Liang | MAS | 1675 | |
| 222 | Oganesyan Nikolay | RUS | 1647 | |
| 223 | Apanasevich Ivan | RUS | 0 | |
| 224 | Asuela Ellan | PHI | 0 | |
| 225 | Celhay Olivier | FRA | 0 | |
| 226 | Lavega Carlito | PHI | 0 | |
| 227 | Lawson Dominic Ralph | ENG | 0 | |
| 228 | Marpaung Roy Charles | INA | 0 | |
| 229 | Meniano Kathleen Joy | PHI | 0 | |
| 230 | Mir Sultan Khan Jr | PAK | 0 | |
| 231 | Muhd Ahsanuddien Bin Badarudin | BRU | 0 | |
| 232 | Pheephacharakan Pinatpong | THA | 0 | |
| 233 | Shevtcov Boris | RUS | 0 | |
| 234 | Umanova Sofia | RUS | 0 | |
| 235 | Wijaya Bima Triardi | INA | 0 | |
