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2011 King's Cup Commentary: Round 10

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Maneeda Tanasanvimol (THA) scores the lowest win of the event so far, 316-302 over Mihoko Terasaki (JPN).

At Board 1 this round, the undefeated Komol Panyasophonlert (THA) faced World Champion Pakorn Nemitrmansuk (THA). Pakorn scored with three of the four big tiles: AIZLE# (28), AXENIC (42), ADJIGO# (30, an Australian yam pluralising# only in -S) and triple-tripled EnROLLEE (122) through an L. He lost 441-389 and Komol remains undefeated.

Behind him are three players at 8-2: Charnrit Khongthanarat (THA), Alastair Richards (AUS) and Odette Carmina Rio (PHL), all of whom had to win their last games to avoid falling any further back.

I make an announcement reminding players to check tile distributions before each game, we've been averaging one stray or broken tile found per round today. All equipment is provided by the tournament; the tiles in use are made of two transparent plastic pieces with a paper insert; they occasionally separate or break, and there's a fishing tackle box full of replacement pieces at the director's table.