Partai Catur Indonesia Open 2011 Tigran Kotanjian vs Tirta Chandra Purnama

IM Tirta Chandra get a nice win against visiting GM from Armenia Tigran Kotanjian. Here the game preview and copied analysis (in Bahasa Indonesia) for our Indonesian reader. The game done in a Classic Queen Indian defence.



After eight rounds, Indian Surya Ganguly position himself as sole leader with 6.5/8. He will be challenge by another five players with half point behind : GM Barbosa Oliver, GM Wang Yue, GM Li Chao b , Aleksey Dreev Aleksey and  GM Mareco Sandro. Then Wesley So, Megaranto and Tkachiev are among the 5/8 points next.

Round 9 will be follow today, and pairing that will affected final position as followed:

1 1 GM Wang Yue 2716 6 6½  -  GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar 2631 5

2 2 GM Dreev Aleksey 2711 6 6 - GM Barbosa Oliver 2538 14
3 3 GM Li Chao b 2710 6 6 - GM Mareco Sandro 2597 7
4 4 GM So Wesley 2655 5½ 5½ - IM Bitoon Richard 2504 22
5 6 GM Tkachiev Vladislav 2631 5½ 5½ - GM Dao Thien Hai 2493 23
6 9 GM Zhao Jun 2587 5½ 5½ - GM Megaranto Susanto 2530 17