Irene Kharisma Sukandar Won Asian Continental 2012

The time has come for the best Asian woman in chess now coming from Indonesia. In last round of Asian Continental Chess Championship 2012, WGM Irene K. Sukandar literally given the first prize in dramatic situation. This is happen in the women section, in round nine playing the white side, Irene played against IM Karavade Eesha. The situation is Irene need to win this game for catching up to her closest rival WGM Mary Ann Gomes, while Mary Ann need only a draw to win the tournament. Yesterday, Mary Ann Gomes defeated Irene in round eight and enter the last round with half point advantage. Despite the situation, Mary Ann Gomes can't handle the pressure from her round nine opponent WGM Tan Zhongyi. She surrendered in 48 moves games of a sharp Benoni game.

Irene played an aggresive game against IM Karavade Eesha. Karavade then blundered a big tactical shoot in move 27..Ne4?? and surrender immediately few moves ahead. For this win Irene now at 7/9, Mary Ann Gomes at 6.5/9 together with Tan Zhongyi and three other China female players. Irene started her campaign winning 4/4 earlier.

With this achievement Irene become the first Indonesian female player to reach Chess World Cup. Previously GM Megaranto Susanto and GM Utut Adianto were the only two who manage this achievement. Irene, born 20 years ago in Jakarta from a Christian faith family, received her WGM title four years ago. She spend few weeks playing in Australia before entering Asian Continental. Congratulations for this achievement.

Final top 10 Standing Asian Continental 2012 Women
1 WGM Sukandar Irine Kharisma INA 2288 7.0
2 WGM Tan Zhongyi CHN 2430 6.5
3 WGM Gomes Mary Ann IND 2378 6.5
4 Wang Jue CHN 2364 6.5
5 WGM Ding Yixin CHN 2353 6.5
6 GM Zhao Xue CHN 2549 6.0
7 WGM Le Thanh Tu VIE 2313 5.5
8 IM Karavade Eesha IND 2353 5.5
9 WGM Padmini Rout IND 2345 5.5
10 WGM Guo Qi CHN 2360 5.5

Games from round nine:

[Event "Asian Women 2012"]
[Site "Ho Chi Minh"]
[Date "2012.05.13"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Tan Zhongyi"]
[Black "Mary Ann Gomes"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2430"]
[BlackElo "2378"]
[EventCountry "VIE"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. Nf3 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 g6 6. g3 Bg7 7. Bg2 O-O 8. O-O Nxd4 9. Qxd4 d6 10. Qd3 Bf5 11. e4 Be6 12. Bd2 Qd7 13. Rfe1 Rfc8 14. b3 Bh3 15. Bh1 Ng4 16. Rac1 Ne5 17. Qe2 h5 18. Nd5 Qd8 19. Bg5 f6 20. Bf4 Bg4 21. f3 Bd7 22. Bg2 Rab8 23. Be3 b6 24. h3 e6 25. Nc3 a6 26. f4 Nf7 27. a4 Qe8 28. Qf2 Qd8 29. Red1 Qc7 30. Bf3 Rf8 31. Kg2 Qd8 32. Ne2 f5 33. exf5 gxf5 34. Bxh5 Bc6+ 35. Bf3 Bxf3+ 36. Qxf3 Qf6 37. Nd4 Rbe8 38. Rf1 Qg6 39. Nc6 e5 40. Nb4 exf4 41. Bxf4 Re4 42. Rce1 Bd4 43. Nd5 Rfe8 44. Rxe4 fxe4 45. Qg4 Qxg4 46. hxg4 Kg7 47. Rd1 Bc5 48. b4 1-0

[Event "Asian Women 2012"]
[Site "Ho Chi Minh"]
[Date "2012.05.13"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Sukandar, Irene K."]
[Black "Karavade Eesha"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2288"]
[BlackElo "2353"]
[EventCountry "VIE"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 e5 7. Nb3 Be6 8. h3 Nbd7 9. Qf3 Rc8 10. g4 h6 11. O-O-O Qc7 12. Bd3 Nb6 13. Bxb6 Qxb6 14. Nd5 Bxd5 15. exd5 Be7 16. h4 Qb4 17. g5 Qg4 18. Qf5 g6 19. Qxg4 Nxg4 20. Rdf1 hxg5 21. Be2 Nf6 22. hxg5 Nh7 23. Rh3 O-O 24. Na5 Bxg5+ 25. Kb1 Rc7 26. Rfh1 Nf6 27. Nc4 Ne4 28. Rh8+ Kg7 29. R1h7+ Kf6 30. Rxf8 1-0

Irene K. Sukandar - Karavade Eesha 1-0
Asian Continental 2012, Ho Chi Minh City
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In the Open section, GM Yu Yangyi emerged as the two players that reach 7/9 together with GM Parimarjan Negi. This will be announced later as the winner as we wait chess-result updating the table. In contrast, two Asian rising star GM Le Quang Liem and Wesley So played a moderate tournament and both finished 5/9.

Indonesian GM Megaranto Susanto finished the tournament 5/9, suffered two losses to Oliver Barbosa and Parimarjan Negi. He will drop 1.4 elo point. In contrast Irene will harvest 50+ elo rating, catapulted her into 2300+ player again.

Final Top Ten Asian Continental 2012 Open
1 GM Negi Parimarjan IND 2640 7.0
2 GM Yu Yangyi CHN 2626 7.0
3 GM Salem A R Saleh UAE 2528 6.5
4 IM Liu Qingnan CHN 2483 6.0
5 GM Barbosa Oliver PHI 2550 6.0
6 GM Ding Liren CHN 2679 6.0
7 GM Ni Hua CHN 2673 6.0
8 GM So Wesley PHI 2653 6.0
9 GM Wen Yang CHN 2550 6.0
10 GM Lu Shanglei CHN 2522 6.0


The top five (5) from the 2012 Asian (Open) Championship shall qualify for the 2013 World Cup.
The 2012 Asian Women’s champions shall qualify for the 2014 Women’s World Championship.

Bahasa Indonesia, Irene Cetak Sejarah menjuarai Asian Continental, report found here and http://potretcatur.blogspot.com/