Suchart Chaivichit

Thai chess player

Suchart Chaivichit
Suchart Chaivichit in 2012
Country	Thailand
Born	(1956-07-08) 8 July 1956 (age 68)
Title	FIDE Master
FIDE rating	2270 (January 2010)^[1]
Peak rating	2420 (July 1983)

Suchart Chaivichit (Thai: สุชาติ ชัยวิชิต; born 8 July 1956) is a makruk and chess player from Thailand. He is a five-time makruk champion of Thailand (1983, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991). In chess he is a FIDE Master and three-time Chess Olympiad individual medalist (1982, 1988, 1996).

Biography

Suchart Chaivichit has been a leading makruk player in Thailand.^[2]^[3] He won the national makruk championship five times, and also won a national makruk festival in 2004.^[4]

Suchart Chaivichit also plays western chess. He represented Thailand in the Chess Olympiad five times:^[5]

in 1980, at the first board in the 24th Chess Olympiad in La Valletta (+5, =6, -3),
in 1982, at the third board in the 25th Chess Olympiad in Lucerne (+9, =0, -3), winning an individual silver medal,
in 1984, at the first board in the 26th Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki (+5, =3, -5),
in 1988, at the fourth board in the 28th Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki (+8, =0, -1), winning an individual gold medal,
in 1996, at the third board in the 32nd Chess Olympiad in Yerevan (+7, =0, -2), winning an individual silver medal.

Suchart Chaivichit played for Thailand three times in the Men's Asian Team Chess Championship:^[6]

in 1979, at the fourth board in the 3rd Asian Team Chess Championship in Singapore (+3, =1, -4),
in 1981, at the first board in the 4th Asian Team Chess Championship in Hangzhou (+3, =0, -5),
in 1989, at the second board in the 8th Asian Team Chess Championship in Genting Highlands (+5, =1, -2), winning an individual bronze medal.

References

^ "Rating Progress Chart: Chaivichit, Suchart". ratings.fide.com. FIDE. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
^ "เซียนป่อง สุชาติ ชัยวิชิต ปรมาจารย์หมากรุกไทย-สากลผู้ยิ่งยง" [Sianpong Suchartchaiwichit, Thai-International Chess Master] (in Thai). 23 October 2006. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
^ "12 ยอดนักหมากรุกไทย" [12 great makruk players]. ChessSiam (in Thai). Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
^ "Suchat Chaivichit, THE 2004 TOP THAI CHESS WIZARD, TOOK HOME A THB100,000 CASH PRIZE". 24 May 2004. Archived from the original on 30 June 2013. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
^ "Men's Chess Olympiads :: Suchart Chaivichit". OlimpBase.org. Archived from the original on 25 September 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
^ "Men's Asian Team Chess Championship :: Suchart Chaivichit". OlimpBase.org. Archived from the original on 25 September 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2019.