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WSC 2007 Commentary: Round 8

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16:58 Round 8 begins. Suanne Ong (MYS) plays Paul Allan (Sco) at Board 1. They lead four other players at 6-1.

17:35 First result: Geoff Thevenot (USA) beat Teodoro Martus (PHL) 505-372.

18:00 Last result: Allan Simmons (Sco) beat Mohammed Zafar Ali (BHR) 447-388.

That's it for today's games. I'll be posting photos and editing the web site until about midnight local time; games resume tomorrow morning at 8:30.

As the Times predicted, Paul Allan (Sco) is in the lead, at 7-1 ahead of Nigel Richards (NZL) and Charnwit Sukhumrattanaporn (THA). Twelve more players are at 6-2, including past World Champion Joel Wapnick (CAN) and defending Champion Adam Logan (Wsc). In the top 20 are six Americans, two each from Australia, Canada, Malaysia and Thailand, and one each from India, Kenya, Nigeria, New Zealand, Scotland and the U.A.E.