Asian Continental Chess Championship: Irene Sukandar Wins Women’s Crown with one Round to Go
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Sharjah: Indonesian Irene Sukandar clinched the Asian Women’s chess crown with one round to spare at Sharjah Chess Club on Friday.
Meanwhile in the Open Section, Chinese GM Yu Yangyi beat Bu Xiangzhi to take sole lead with 6.5 points after the penultimate eighth round of the Asian Continental Chess Championship.
Sukandar drew in 37 moves of a Trompovsky Attack by Gong Qianyun of Singapore to tally seven points, an unreachable 1.5 ahead of second-place Iranian WGMs Sarasadat Khademalsharieh and Atousa Pourkashiyan. The Indonesian matched her victory in the same event two years ago in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. She now advances to the Women’s World Cup next year.
In the race for silver and bronze medals in the Women’s division, tied at five points each in fourth to seventh slots are Gong Qianyun, Tan Zhongyi of China, Hoang Thi Bao Tram of Vietnam and IM Eesha Karavade of India.
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Indonesia Chess Open Round 7: Alexey Dreev Keeps Lead
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013
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Today was a double round at one of the top open championships of the year Indonesia Open 2013. GM Alexey Dreev (interview here) kept the sole lead achieved in R5 after a gift and a hard fought draw. He is eager to achieve a good score before his important participation at the European Club Cup 2013.
Among the women, WGM Elisabeth Paehtz (interview here) is now on 5,0/7, while GM Antoaneta Stefanova and GM Hoang Thanh Trang are close behind on 4.5/7.
Live games with analysis here
Round 6, the morning round
The tournament leader in GM Alexey Dreev was expected to have a tough encounter against first seeded GM Alexander Moiseenko in a top board match-up of the morning round, but it was not to be as somehow Moiseenko did not manage to make the game on time. With this gift Dreev consolidated his lead to 5.5/6, a result which left the chasing pack with everything to do. On second board GM Sandro Mareco drew quickly against GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly by allowing repetition of an opening variation already played earlier by Black and leaving both with 4.5/6.
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Indonesia Chess: Medina Warda Aulia becomes Indonesia's Second WGM
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013
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Indonesia chess has just got its second women’s grandmaster (WGM)! Medina Warda Aulia defeated FM (FIDE master) Lanita Stetsko of Belarus at the World Junior Chess Championship in Kocaeli, Turkey, on Monday to fetch the honor for her country.
The Indonesian chess player scores seven points from 10 of 13 rounds for her her third WGM norm after she recorded her first and second norms in Singapore in 2011 and Russia in 2012.
A chess player has to book a set of three WGM norms for a full WGM title, as required by the international chess authority FIDE.
“She has played opponents with a ratings average of 2266. On the Direct Titles table issued by FIDE on July 1, a player scoring seven points is entitled to WGM norm if their opponents have a rating average between 2251 and 2289,” team manager Kristianus Liem said in a press release on Tuesday.
“Medina has met the other requirements that at least four opponents hold a WGM title, six are titled and eight are rated,” he said.
Kristianus said that Medina would also augment her rating by 24 points next month from her current rating of 2301.
Stetsko was the sixth player Medina defeated in the tournament. The five others were Ani Krumova, Ivana Maria Furtado, Maria Bezgodova, Aleksandra Goryachkina and Alina Kashlinskaya.
She lost to Irina Bulmaga and Rout Padminia while her two draws came against Wang Jue and Sabina Ibrahimova. Monday’s win came on the back of two consecutive losses and a draw. In the game Medina was typically aggressive despite playing black. She was two pawns ahead early with control of the game. She needed only 23 moves to force Stetsko to concede after her opponent failed to make amends for the loss of a piece.
Medina is now ranked fifth on the provisional standings, along with three other players. Bulmaga leads with eight points followed by Deysi Cori T and Goryachkina, each with 7.5 points. Medina’s win, however, failed to inspire her three teammates.
WIM Chelsie Monica Sihite lost to WIM Khademalsharieh Sarasadat of Iran in the girls’ division while Muhammad Luthfi Ali and Farid Firman Syah in the boys’ division bowed to IM Marcel Kanarek of Poland and Javier Benitez Lozano of Mexico respectively.
Medina becomes Indonesia’s youngest player to attain a WGM title. She has done so at the age of 16 years, two months and 16 days.
Irene Kharisma Sukandar, the only other active Indonesian WGM player achieved the title at the age of 16 years, seven months and 18 days at the Chess Olympiad in Dresden, Germany, in 2008
Medina’s achievement was applauded with enthusiasm back home.
“Praise be to God. Congratulations!” GM Utut Adianto, the country’s chess icon since turned lawmaker, said.
Hashim S. Djojohadikusumo, chairman of the Indonesian Chess Association (Percasi) promised to hold a thanksgiving ceremony.
Eka Putra Wirya, a member of Percasi’s advisory board, said the association and chess lovers deserved to be congratulated on Medina’s achievement.
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MAKITA Women's Chess Match: Indonesia extends lead over France
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The latest chess tournament news is that after two rounds of classical chess games at the MAKITA Women Chess Match being played between Indonesia and France at the Sekolah Catur Utut Adianto in Jakarta. The Indonesians lead 5.5 to 2.5 lead, according to a press release. The Indonesian team won both the first and second rounds 3-1 and 2.5-1.5. Mathilda Congiu beat Chelsie Monica Shite of Indonesia, but Medina Warda Aulia equalised the score by beating Natacha Benmesbad. Another win came from Irine Kharisma Sukandar force and Dewi AA Citra drew with Sophie Millet.
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