The 18th Bangkok Chess Club Open was held in the Regent Cha-am Beach Resort from 13-21 April 2018. In total almost 350 players took part, with around 240 playing in the main 9-round open.

With a last round draw against GM Nigel Short 19-year-old FM Priasmoro Novendra has won the Bangkok Chess Club Open! He finished ahead of 15 GMs to clinch the title! He finished with 8 points out of 9.
GM Chakkravarthy J.Deepan is second with 7.5 points and four people have made 7 points. Best tie-break and third place is for CM D Gukesh.

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final standings Bangkok Chess Club Open 2018

1 Priasmoro Novendra 8
2 Deepan Chakkravarthy J. 7,5
3 Gukesh D 7
4 Gareyev Timur 7
5 Short Nigel D 7
6 Peng Xiongjian 7
7 Melkumyan Hrant 6,5
8 Flores Diego 6,5
9 Nguyen Anh Khoi 6,5
10 Smirnov Anton 6,5
11 Gustafsson Jan 6,5
12 Tran Tuan Minh 6,5
13 Goh Wei Ming Kevin 6,5
14 Tran Minh Thang 6,5
15 Andyka Pitra 6,5
16 Miciano John Marvin 6,5
17 Vaingorten Yaaqov 6,5
18 Phadke Sohan 6,5
19 Raja Rithvik R 6,5
20 Manish Anto Cristiano F 6,5
21 Krysa Leandro 6
22 Pascua Haridas 6
23 Ly Moulthun 6
24 Wang Shixu B 6
25 Lorparizangeneh Shahin 6
26 Santiago Yago De Moura 6
27 Nitish Belurkar 6
28 Kwon Sehyun 6
29 Duong The Anh 6
30 Shen Shiyan 6
31 Li Zhenyu 6
32 Chua Tze Jay Azel 6
33 Varshini V 6
34 Nie Xinyang 5,5
35 Zhu Yi 5,5
36 Swapnil S. Dhopade 5,5
37 Batchimeg Tuvshintugs 5,5
38 Neelotpal Das 5,5
39 Vatsal Singhania 5,5
40 Gomes Mary Ann 5,5
41 Karthikeyan P. 5,5
42 Chitlange Sakshi 5,5
43 Stokke Kjetil 5,5
44 Williams Justus 5,5
45 Huang Renjie 5,5
46 Low Zhen Yu Cyrus 5,5
47 Panda Sambit 5,5
48 Zhang Lanlin 5,5
49 Kienitz Andre 5,5
50 Zulfic Fedja 5,5
51 Ashid Tsetseg-Ulzii 5,5
52 Duong Thuong Cong 5,5
53 Sauravh Khherdekar 5
54 Raghunandan Kaumandur Srihari 5
55 Kulkarni Bhakti 5
56 Sukandar Irine Kharisma 5
57 Villamayor Buenaventura 5
58 Thakur Akash 5
59 Habla Jony 5
60 Salvador Louie 5
61 Chan Kim Yew 5
62 Moksh Amit Doshi 5
63 Tarini Goyal 5
64 Bai Adelard 5
65 Sergeyeva Mariya 5
66 Nguyen Le Minh Phu 5
67 Makhija Aashna 5
68 Guo Emma 5
69 Shahil Dey 5
70 Winkelman Albert 5
71 Kim Jinsoo 5
72 Sielicki Tomasz 5
73 Lye Lik Zang 5
74 Teerapabpaisit Wisuwat 5
75 Tan Jun Ying 5
76 Sim Jia Ru 5
77 Priyanka K 5
78 Patil Mitali Madhukar 5
79 Attwood James 5
80 Sajjapornthep Jarunpol 5
81 Tarimo Didik Widiarso 5
82 Saksham Rautela 5
83 Eng Jia Qian 5
84 Jeet Jain 5
85 Meenal Gupta 5
86 Chan Yi Meng Ryan 5
87 Nieminen Kari 5
88 Enkhtuul Altan-Ulzii 4,5
89 Parmet Daniel Edward 4,5
90 Portugalera Ric 4,5
91 Lin Peisen 4,5
92 Naumov Maxim 4,5
93 Diez Allan 4,5
94 Laine Panu 4,5
95 Jaeel Atharva 4,5
96 Welsh Michael 4,5
97 Armstrong Malcolm J 4,5
98 Vishwa Vasnawala 4,5
99 Wiwatanadate Poompong 4,5
100 Kondrak Christof 4,5
101 Singgih Diajeng Theresa 4,5
102 Prasitsoonthorn Teerachoti 4,5
103 Siddharth Jagadeesh 4,5
104 Tantipura Noppakorn 4,5
105 Willnecker Olaf 4,5
106 Song Jinwoo 4,5
107 Fendel Harald 4,5
108 Bidhar Rutumbara 4,5
109 Kollmann Robert 4,5
110 Hng Mei-En Emmanuelle 4
111 Tobor Mick 4
112 Gokhale Anupama 4
113 Silva Winston Joseph R 4
114 Ashutosh Kumar 4
115 Muzzaffar Ahmad 4
116 Dr Hitesh Vasanwala 4
117 Norris Damian C 4
118 Khumnorkaew Tupfah 4
119 Streiter Gerhard 4
120 Lam Ross 4
121 Savitha Shri B 4
122 Ahn Sungmin 4
123 Hng Mei-Xian Eunice 4
124 Chan Jacob Joseph 4
125 He Yichen 4
126 Hiebert Kenji 4
127 Mueller Jens 4
128 Mottonen Ari 4
129 Tuorila Kai 4
130 Rodriguez Juan Talavera 4
131 Sandhiratne Akkarawut 4
132 Zhu Ying 4
133 Kim Inguh 4
134 Sivara Poompat 4
135 Lim Bernard Carleton 4
136 Atia Ben 4
137 Sadbhav Rautela 4
138 Tanmay Jain 3,5
139 Piasetski Leon 3,5
140 Nouri Alekhine 3,5
141 Haraldsson Oskar 3,5
142 Kim Changhoon 3,5
143 Ashwin Hariharan 3,5
144 Abe Yuta 3,5
145 Rindhiya V 3,5
146 Liu Cheng 3,5
147 Asavasaetakul Chawit 3,5
148 Kim Doyun 3,5
149 Frederiksen Erik 3,5
150 Liew Mark 3,5
151 Frost Peter 3,5
152 Toh Joseph 3,5
153 Larsen Hans Haagen 3,5
154 Noel Nicolas 3,5
155 Runarsson Gunnar 3,5
156 Aayush Bhattacherjee 3,5
157 Matzies Alexander 3
158 Laohawirapap Prin 3
159 Ramirez Leyva Freddy 3
160 Wongsawan Thoetsak 3
161 Ang Jing Xuan 3
162 Ilyes Peter 3
163 Brunner Karl 3
164 Tianopart Ruengyot 3
165 Saelee Suppakrit 3
166 Kong Jian Yuan Stephen 3
167 Hutzheimer Alfred 3
168 Asavayutphol Pattarapong 3
169 Jackson John Marvin 3
170 Chia Yu Zhe Ashton 3
171 Chan Jordan 3
172 Chongstitwattana Cholapat 3
173 Lie Terje 3
174 Umayan Gabriel John 3
175 Umayan Samantha Babol 3
176 Janset Pakpoom 2,5
177 Atthaworadej Worasuda 2,5
178 Ferrie Peter 2,5
179 Mahi Amit Doshi 2,5
180 You Garam 2,5
181 Karasmaki Seppo 2,5
182 Petchrongrusamee Pornpong 2,5
183 Jagadeesh Balakrishnan 2,5
184 Shashank V S 2,5
185 Samatthanan Jirath 2
186 Chulasereekul Kwanchanok 2
187 Frei Gustav 2
188 Rangkaew Katunchalee 2
189 Ristoja Aulikki 1,5
190 Ahn Juyong 1,5
191 Atia Raphael 1,5
192 Venter Nicholas Wilhelm 1
193 Samatthanan Theerath 0,5
194 Peng Hongchi 0