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2011 King's Cup Commentary: Round 18

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One of the unexpected challenges of international tournaments is that of deciphering the variety of handwriting used by players and staff. Each country has its own way of writing numerals: to start with there are simple questions such as whether a '1' written with a serif on the top and/or on the bottom, vertically or obliquely. One communication issue I've seen more than once here between the paper game recorder and the person doing game data entry is that there is not a lot of difference in Thai handwriting between the capital letters I and P: they both look like a vertical stroke with a small circle in the vicinity of its top.

Yen Nee Shim (BRN) scores a 610-288 win over Charas Worapojpisut (THA).

Komol Panyasophonlert (THA) loses a second game today, 386-518 in his third match against Charnwit Sukhumrattanaporn (THA). Komol now has 3 losses to Charnwit and 15 wins against everyone else! Charnwit himself is 13-5 +1133, behind Siu Hean Cheah (SGP) +1460. At 12-6 are seven more players: Chollapat Itthi-aree (THA), Jakkrit Klaphajone (THA), Alastair Richards (AUS), Tony Sim (SGP), Nigel Richards (NZL), Thacha Koowirat (THA) and Charnrit Khongthanarat (THA).