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222 players registered so far for the King's Bangkok Chess Championship! The late registration deadline which was today, will be extended to January 20th. The maximum number of players that we can accept is 250. The registrations will be closed when we reach this number.

Red Knight Chess Club will organize this tournament on February 11th. The host is King's College International School Bangkok.

You can find the updated list of players at this link: https://chess-results.com/tnr875905.aspx?lan=1&zeilen=99999

Hurry up to secure a seat for this big inter-school chess competition!

Our training methods and system has made Red Knight Chess Club a home of chess champions. Our MASTER CLASS training sessions are important part of our system, especially for those young players who aim to play chess for more than just fun.

What are the MASTER CLASS training sessions?

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♞Going deeper in the secrets of competitive chess
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Time to announce our January tournaments. We will host the Age Group tournaments on January 21st, while our FIDE Rated Rapid and Blitz tournaments are scheduled for January 28th.

AGE GROUP TOURNAMENTS:
As usual, we will have one mixed U10 age group, with awards for top 3 players in the U7, U8, U9 and U10 categories. Separately, we will have the U16 age group, in which we will award the top 3 players with trophies. Please note that we made a small change from last year and we expand the U15 group to U16 for this year.

Our monthly tournaments are open to all players, members or non-members, but there is a limit to 40 players due to the capacity of our club.

You can register for the age group tournament here: https://redknightchess.com/age-group-tournament-registration

FIDE RATED RAPID AND BLITZ TOURNAMENTS:
Our next FIDE Rated Rapid and Blitz Tournaments are coming up on January 28th. The prize fund will be 10,000 THB. Players must have a FIDE Id number in order to join the FIDE Rated tournaments. If you don't have a FIDE Id number and you want to join, please contact us as soon as possible so that we can assist you.

One important change is that we will start at 12:30, instead of 13:00h. In case we have a full house event for the Rapid, we want to make sure that the Rapid tournament will finish on time and the Blitz will not be delayed.

Arrival time is 12:00h.

You can find all the information about the tournament fees, payment, and registration, on this link: https://redknightchess.com/fide-rated-rapid-registration/

Looking forward to seeing you at Red Knight!

The Christmas edition of our Rapid and Blitz Monthly FIDE rated tournaments finished today. In a very competitive mix of experienced and junior players, here are the winners of both events:

RAPID
Winner: Arsens Batashevs (2170)
2nd Place: Mohamad Sacar (2014)
3rd Place: FM Ko Ko Ohn (2141)
Best Junior: Ian Hong (1680)

BLITZ
Winner: FM Ko Ko Ohn (2096)
2nd Place: Arsens Batashevs (2132)
3rd Place: Mohamad Sacar (2128)

You can find photos of the players and the awarding ceremony in this post.

This concludes the last tournament event that we organized this year. In January 2024, we will organize:

👉Jan 21st, Age Group Tournament
👉Jan 28th, FIDE Rated rapid & Blitz

Big thanks to all who joined us today and also to our staff who did a great job organizing the tournaments today.

Wishing you wonderful holidays and see you next year!

Congratulations to Ian on winning the 3rd place in the strong Kasetsart 2023 Open Tournament, that welcomed 61 players, among which 4 FIDE Masters.

Well done, Ian!

Congratulations to Warm on winning the 1st Runner-up trophy in the U10 category of the Eastern Thailand Rapid Chess Championship!

Well done, Warm!

Our final Monthly Age Group tournament for 2023 finished yesterday. Thanks to all who took time to join the event. Here is the list of award winners:

U15
Winner: Anda
1st Runner-up: Tea
2nd Runner-up: Proud

U10
Winner: Prime
1st Runner-up: Sea
2nd Runner-up: Mes

U09
Winner: Achi
1st Runner-up: Bheem
2nd Runner-up: Yamato

U08
Winner: KhaoJao
1st Runner-up: Eason
2nd Runner-up: Kavish

U07
Winner: Levy
1st Runner-up: KhaoKar
2nd Runner-up: Nopp

We will add the remaining photos from the awarding later today. Big congratulations to all the winners!

Our next age group tournament after the holidays is scheduled for January 21st. You can register here: https://redknightchess.com/age-group-tournament-registration/

IMPORTANT: Today is the last day for the EARLY BIRD registrations for the big KING'S BANGKOK CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP. In cooperation with the school, we expanded the capacity to 250 players. At the moment, we have 220 registered players, and 30 seats remaining.

Our juniors had a blast at the Thailand Youth Rapid Chess Championship that took place in Bangkok in the past three days. Five of our boys and girls became Thailand CHAMPIONS. Huge congratulations to:

- Pine, U16 CHAMPION
- Nina, G14 CHAMPION
- Kate, U12 CHAMPION
- Proud, G10 CHAMPION
- Chin, U08 CHAMPION.

What a remarkable achievement!

Another three trophies went to:

- Gavin, U12 1st Runner-up
- Tada, U16 2nd Runner-up
- Jiajia, U14 2nd Runner-up

Our youngest ones, Panerai, Evie and Plus, won medals.

The success is even bigger since we missed many of our best players at the tournament, such as Ian, Dhi, Pac, Anda, Daisy, JJ, and others. We are proud of all our players who went through three days of very competitive chess and emerged victorious.

*Pine dominated the U16 & U18 combined age groups*

Even though he would often remind us that the rapid time control is not his cup of tea, Pine did a brilliant job at the tournament. With 11 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats, he never gave his opponents a chance to catch up, winning with full 2 points ahead of the competitors. A well deserved champion title for Pine! In the same group we saw a very unexpected comeback from Tada, who joined after a long absence from the 64 squares and still grabbed the 2nd Runner-up trophy! Well done, boys!

*Nina has no competition in G14 age group*

And the same thing can be said for the two Chiang Mai girls, Sirin in G16 and Araya in G18. In a combined G12+G14+G16+G18 group, each of the 3 girls won one and lost one game against each other, and then they won all the other games, finishing the tournament with 12 points from 13 rounds and 3.5 points ahead of the competition. In the end it was only a confirmation of what we already knew: Nina is G14 rapid chess champion of Thailand.

*The attack on the U12 age group*

What happened in the U12 age group can only be described as EPIC! Missing our Anda, who was suppose to fight for the title in this group but he was not able to join, we did not expect to have players in this group, until two of them decided to take a new challenge. Kate, who decided that there is not much to do in the G12 group and wanted to try her skills against the boys, and Gavin, who stepped out of the U10 group in search for battles with older opponents.

After 13 rounds, Kate showed everyone that girls can be tough in chess too! She won the tournament with 11.5/13 points. Gavin did not start the tournament well, but he showed a fantastic fighting spirit: he climbed back to the top, winning most of the leading players and breaking through to the 1st Runner-up position.

*Proud wins the G10 age group*

Proud did not miss to win yet another champion title in her category. She played very well against her main opponents, but she lost stamina during the long tournament. Still, she was always ahead on the table and her title was never in jeopardy.

*Chin winning U08 is not a surprise*

A tremendous progress in one year for Chin, who proved what you can do with dedication and passion for the game. After winning several school tournaments, he finally shined on the main stage, becoming a rapid chess champion of Thailand in the U08 age group.

You can find the whole post here: https://redknightchess.com/thailand-youth-rapid-championship-2023/

The Thailand Youth Rapid Chess Championship is over and we come back with 5 new Thailand CHAMPIONS, and a total of 8 trophies and 3 medals won at the competition! A huge congratulations to our juniors for this massive success!

We will publish a detailed report tomorrow.

A few more seats remaining for our December Chess Camp. You can send us your inquiries: https://redknightchess.com/camps/

We will organize our December Holiday Chess Camp in a festive atmosphere, during the last two weeks of the year. You can join us for one or two weeks:

- Week 1: December 18-22
- Week 2: December 25-29

We accept weekly registrations only (no daily drop-in). The seats are limited. For more information, please fill in the form on this page: https://redknightchess.com/camps/ and our staff will contact you back within 24 hours.

Looking forward to seeing you at Red Knight!

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Please find in this post our Tournament Calendar for January, February, March and April 2024. Please note that this is a calendar that we planned and we will try to organize our tournaments on the given dates. Some changes are possible depending on the circumstances.

Thank you for joining our tournaments!

Our next Monthly Age Group Tournaments will take place on December 17th at our chess club. As usual, we will have one mixed U10 age group, with awards for top 3 players in the U7, U8, U9 and U10 categories. Separately, we will have the U15 age group, in which we will award the top 3 players with trophies.

Our monthly tournaments are open to all players, members or non-members, but there is a limit to 40 players due to the capacity of our club.

You can register here: https://redknightchess.com/age-group-tournament.../

Looking forward to seeing many of you soon!

Congratulations to our juniors who collected their awards at the 4th Ekkamai International Chess Tournament that took place at Gateway Ekkamai yesterday.

Chin won yet another U8 competition, and in the same group, Pordee won the 2nd Runner-up trophy and Panerai won the 3rd Runner-up medal and the Best Girl trophy.

10 year old Gavin went in the open section to try his skills against adult opponents, and came out with +95 FIDE Rating points!

Great job everyone, keep it up!

Information for all Red Knight Juniors: The Thailand Junior Rapid Championship will take place from December 8-10. It is organized by the Thailand Chess Association. You can find the registration form here: https://forms.gle/LF4L4YBved7KrETk8

Please note that our members can pay the lesser member fee which is 1,000 baht (just note Club: Red Knight Chess Club, in the registration form). Expats who need some help with the most important tournament details can contact our staff for translation.

Our next FIDE Rated Rapid and Blitz Tournaments are coming up on December 24th. We will make sure that for our last tournament this year, our club will be in a festive atmosphere. The prize fund will be 10,000 THB. Players must have a FIDE Id number in order to join. If you don't have a FIDE Id number and you want to join, please contact us as soon as possible so that we can assist you.

One important change is that we will start at 12:30, instead of 13:00h. In case we have a full house event like last month, we want to make sure that the Rapid tournament will finish on time and the Blitz will not be delayed.

Arrival time is 12:00h.

You can find all the information about the tournament fees, payment, and registration, on this link: https://redknightchess.com/fide-rated-rapid-registration/

Looking forward to seeing you at Red Knight!

A huge shout out to the Red Knight Juniors who dominated the Bangkok Patana Chess Championship, winning 25 out of 40 individual awards! An amazing result that makes us all proud.

The very competitive U18 age group in which out of 19 players, 14 were FIDE Rated, was almost entirely won by our players who took home 4 out of 5 awards. In a surprising turn of events, Nina snatched the first place in the last round by winning the big favorite Ian. The result left Ian at the second place, tied with Arush who got the third place trophy. The only player who disturbed the Red Knight players at the top was Valiliia from Phuket, who had achieved great progress lately. She got the 3rd Runner-up gold medal, while our Pine took the silver.

In the U14, Pac lifted the winners trophy, Jiajia got the 1st Runner-up trophy and Kate got the 3rd Runner-up gold medal.

The U12 age group was dominated by our young star Gavin, who moved up from the U10 age group in a search for challenge and won against higher rated and older opponents with a perfect 6/6 score! What a statement! In the same group, Leah got the 2nd Runner-up trophy.

The U10 age group almost saw the same scenario, as Proud moved from the U9 group to find out if she can win against older opponents. She came super close, getting tied with the equally amazing Dariya with 5.5/6 points. The tie-break did not favor Proud and she lifted the 1st Runner-up trophy. Keith got the 2nd Runner-up trophy, while Lilih took the 3rd Runner-up gold.

In the U9 category Ava did not hold on until the end, having started with a perfect 4/4 score. The pressure in the last two rounds cost her a trophy, but she still did very well to win the 4th Runner-up silver medal.

Another rising star, Chin, won his third consecutive big tournament in the U8 age group, and again with a perfect 6/6 score! Panerai did very well to win the 3rd Runner-up gold medal.

In the U7 age group, Hero won the 2nd Runner-up trophy and Newyear won the 3rd Runner-up gold medal.

Finally, in the U6 age group, Ko and Gabriel won the gold and silver medals.

Congratulations to all! Hopefully this tournament will be an extra motivation to work even harder and to achieve even better results.

Congratulations also to all our other juniors who did not climbed the stage on Sunday, but they did their best as always. In big tournaments such as this one it is not enough to play good, sometimes a little luck is needed too. Keep it up, and fight hard in the next tournament.

See you all very soon.

Photos: Batch No.3, from the Secondary Division (U14 and U18 age groups).

We are happy to announce our first big inter-school competition for 2024. It will take place at King’s College International School Bangkok on February 11th 2024. The competition will be open for players from all schools in Thailand who are born between 2006 and 2019. We plan to accept 200 players and we anticipate another full-house event.

Please note that we opened the registrations yesterday during the BPS Chess Championship and at the moment the number of registered players is 70.

You can register here: https://redknightchess.com/kings/

We strongly advise to read the regulations carefully before joining. You can download the PDF file on the link above, or the screenshots posted here. The Early bird registration ends on December 15th, or earlier if we reach the maximum number of entries.

Looking forward to seeing you at King's Bangkok in February next year!

Photos: Batch No.2, from the Primary Division (U6, U7, U8, U9, U10 and U12 age groups).

The biggest chess tournament for this year is over. 250 registered players for the Bangkok Patana Chess Championship is a good sign that chess in Thailand is growing. We want to thank all the children and their families who joined yesterday. We also like to express our gratitude to the president of the Thailand Chess Association, Mr. Sahapol Nakvanich, for taking time to visit the competition and to give the awards to the winners.

Big thanks to Bangkok Patana School for providing wonderful facilities for the event.

You can find the final standings on the links below:

U06: https://chess-results.com/tnr846220.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=6
U07: https://chess-results.com/tnr846221.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=6
U08: https://chess-results.com/tnr846222.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=6
U09: https://chess-results.com/tnr846223.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=6
U10: https://chess-results.com/tnr846224.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=6
U12: https://chess-results.com/tnr846225.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=6
U14: https://chess-results.com/tnr846226.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=6
U18: https://chess-results.com/tnr846227.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=6

Congratulations to all!

We will be posting a few more batches of photos today and tomorrow. If you are in a search of a tournament photo of your child, please also visit the Thailand Chess Association page where you will find hundreds of photos. Credit to Khun Suchart.

As we announced yesterday, our next tournament will take place at King's College International School Bangkok on February 11th. Registrations are already open. We will post the tournament later today.

Our November Monthly Tournament took place today at Red Knight Chess Club. It was another full house event with many exciting games and some surprising results.

Here is the list of award winners:

U15
Winner: Maksim Smirnov
1st Runner-up: Anda Leksukhum
2nd Runner-up: Gavin Siridanupath

U10
Winner: Dari Amar
1st Runner-up: Mes Vongviriyatham
2nd Runner-up: Sea Rujiravanich

U09
Winner: Proud Suthiponpaisarn
1st Runner-up: Leo Le Louer
2nd Runner-up: Wit Punmongkol

U08
Winner: Pordee Kijkamjai
1st Runner-up: Evie Choi
2nd Runner-up: Panerai Chaembang

U07
Winner: SunSun Ongsri
1st Runner-up: Nile Wattanasiri
2nd Runner-up: Gabriel Sun

Youngest participant: Plus Suthiponpaisarn (born 2019!)

Congratulations to all! Our next monthly Age Group tournament is scheduled for December 17th.

Important information for all who registered for the tournament that we are organizing at Bangkok Patana School on November 19th: emails with very important details are sent to your email addresses. If you did not receive any emails from us, please check your spam folders, as it might happen some of the emails not to reach your inboxes.

A record number of 250 players signed up for the tournament. The registrations are closed as we cannot accommodate anymore entries.

Thanks to everyone who joined and good luck in the tournament!

Congratulations to Anda and Kate on their amazing performances in the recently concluded Thailand Demonstration Schools Competition (Satit Samakkee), that took place in Chiang Mai in the past few days. They both came back with individual gold medals.

I the team competition, Anda's school team won the gold, while Kate's school won the silver. On top of all, Anda won the MVP trophy in the Junior High School division.

Congratulations also to JiaJia who won the team gold together with Anda.

Well done everyone!

We will organize our December Holiday Chess Camp in a festive atmosphere, during the last two weeks of the year. You can join us for one or two weeks:

- Week 1: December 18-22
- Week 2: December 25-29

We accept weekly registrations only (no daily drop-in). The seats are limited. For more information, please fill in the form on this page: https://redknightchess.com/camps/ and our staff will contact you back within 24 hours.

Looking forward to seeing you at Red Knight!

Congratulations to our junior Warm on winning the U10 category in the Double Bishop tournament yesterday. Well done!

The titled players dominated the field in the strongest chess tournament that we hosted at Red Knight Chess Club since January this year.

31 players, among which one IM and 4 FM's joined the Rapid tournament. The winner was IM Oleg Badmatsyrenov with 5.5 points, a half point ahead of FM Danil Najdin and FM Masahiro Baba, who won 2nd and 3rd place awards respectively. The Best Junior award went to Thailand's most promising player, FM Prin Laohawirapap, who probably has not won this type of award in a while :)

IM Oleg Badmatsyrenov dominated the Blitz tournament as well, with 8 points out of 9 games. Half point behind him was Louie Salvador, while FM Prin Laohawirapap got the third award with 7 points. 26 players joined the Blitz tournament.

Our next FIDE Rated Rapid & Blitz tournaments will be in a festive atmosphere on December 24. We plan to start the tournament earlier than usual, and aside the regular awards we will have gifts for all players.

Some photos from the blitz tournament and the awarding are added in the photo gallery.