Friday, July 26, 2013

Biel Master 2013 - Medina Victory and Utut Adianto Return

Indonesian chess players celebrated their first outstanding individual result by witnessing WIM Medina Warda Aulia (2286) knock downed GM Alexander Cherniaev (2447) in English Opening, round 4 Biel Master 2013. Notes that this is the 'senior' Alexander Cherniaev born 1969, not to be confused by other.

[Event "MTO Biel"]
[Site "Biel"]
[Date "2013.07.24"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Cherniaev, Alexander"]
[Black "Medina, Warda Aulia"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A23"]
[WhiteElo "2447"]
[BlackElo "2286"]
1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. g3 c6 4. Nf3 e4 5. Nd4 d5 6. cxd5 cxd5 7. d3 exd3 8.
Qxd3 Nc6 9. Bg2 Be7 10. O-O O-O 11. Be3 Ne5 12. Qb5 a6 13. Qb3 Nc4 14. Bf4 Na5
15. Qc2 Be6 16. Rad1 Rc8 17. e4 Bg4 18. Nde2 b5 19. e5 Nd7 20. h3 Be6 21. Qb1
Nb6 22. Nd4 b4 23. Nce2 Nac4 24. b3 Na3 25. Qd3 a5 26. Bc1 Bc5 27. Bb2 Qe7 28.
Kh2 Bd7 29. f4 Qe8 30. Rfe1 Nb5 31. f5 Qxe5 32. Nf4 Qf6 33. Nh5 Qh6 34. Bc1
Qxh5 35. Bf3 Bxf5 36. Nxf5 Qg6 37. Be3 Qf6 38. Qxb5 Qxf5 39. Bxc5 Qc2+ 40. Re2
Qxc5 41. Qd3 Rfe8 42. Rxe8+ Rxe8 43. Bxd5 Nxd5 44. Qxd5 Re2+ 45. Kh1 Re1+ 46.
Kg2 Qg1+ 47. Kf3 Re3+ 0-1


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Indonesia sent chess players to participated in 2013 Biel Master event happening from 20th June to 2nd August in Biel, Switzerland. Included in the group is GM Utut Adianto, Indonesian most popular grandmaster who active decade ago before switch career as a politician.  Players that travel to Swiss and playing in Biel 2013, Master section:

Adianto,Utut GM 2548 INA 1965 (born)
Megaranto,Susanto GM 2524 INA 1987
Farid,Firman Syah IM 2396 INA 1993
Sukandar,Irene Khari WGM 2365 INA 1992
Medina,Warda Aulia WIM 2286 INA 1997
Sihite,Chelsie Monic WIM 2285 INA 1995
Muhammad,Lufti Ali CM 2279 INA 1997
Sean,Winshand Cuhen 2259 INA 1997
Masruri,Rahman 2174 INA 1996
Dewi,Aa Citra WFM 2138 INA 1994
Nadia,Anggraeni M 1947
Karenza,Dita 1915

After round 5, GM Utut Adianto is on 3.5/5, along his strong opponents was GM Jan Smeets (lost) and GM Igor Kurnosov (draw). Now, Utut is the highest standing Indonesian player with 3.5/5 points as per round 5, followed by Medina Aulia 3/5, Rahman Masruri 3/5 and GM Megaranto Susanto 3/5.

LIVE Broadcast for Biel Master in HERE
Official Result and Standing from Biel Master 2013

[Event "MTO Biel"]
[Site "Biel"]
[Date "2013.07.26"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Adianto, Utut"]
[Black "Kurnosov, Igor"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2548"]
[BlackElo "2657"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. g3 c5 4. Bg2 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Bg7 6. c4 O-O 7. Nc3 Nc6 8.
O-O Qa5 9. e3 d6 10. Bd2 Qa6 11. b3 Bd7 12. a4 Rac8 13. h3 Rfd8 14. Ndb5 b6 15.
Qe2 Qb7 16. Rfd1 Qb8 17. Be1 a6 18. Nd4 e6 19. Ra2 Na5 20. Rb2 Be8 21. Rbb1 Qa7
22. Ne4 Nxe4 23. Bxe4 Qe7 24. Bg2 Nb7 25. Qa2 Rc7 1/2-1/2


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Penggemar catur Indonesia patut berbangga menyambut kemenangan Master Internasional Wanita Medina Aulia Warda yang berhasil mengalahkan Grand Master Alexander Cherniaev. GM Alexander Cherniaev, lahir 1969 (karena ada Cherniaev lainnya), ditantang Aulia yg memegang buah hitam melalui pembukaan Inggris, permainan mengarah ke situasi liar dan penuh taktik. Aulia berhasil menjawab problem permainan tengah dengan langkah yang lebih tepat dan putih menyerah di pertarungan Ratu + Benteng di langkah ke 47. Tampilan papan catur interaktif bisa dilihat di atas. Analisis partai catur Alexander Cherniaev vs Aulia Warda berbahasa Indonesia dapat disimak di blog Potret Catur.

Sementara itu Grand Master paling popular Indonesia, Utut Adianto menyusul rekan-rekan junior mereka dan terjun juga di turnamen Biel Master 2013. Indonesia menerbangkan beberapa pecatur ke ajang Biel di Swiss sebagai ajang pemanasan menjelang SEA Games mendatang di Myanmar. Patut diketahui di cabang catur, saingan Indonesia di SEA Games yaitu Philipines dan Vietnam telah jauh memiliki formasi tim catur yang kelas dunia, semoga pecatur Indonesia yang warming up di 'hanya sekelas' Biel Master bisa memetik kesempatan ini sebaik mungkin. Sekilas info di Biel juga menampilkan turnamen kelas papan atas mereka yaitu kelas Grandmaster, dengan rating 2690+ ke atas.

Tayangan LIVE catur Biel Master dapat disimak di link > http://live.bielchessfestival.ch/pgn/dgt_chesstheatre.htm

Monday, July 1, 2013

Chess Played at 4th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games 2013

If you haven't got enough of Olympic, here another multi sports event. The Asian countries have organized a new set of specific sports and put it together as Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games (AIMAG). Basically there are indoor sports with something more Asian cultured games rather than Western's (think basketball or golf...). So we are able to see something like Kickboxing, Muay or Kabaddi . Then we have Oriental games such as Go, and of course along that Chess. In an eyebrow rising event, there also exists electronic games, included are FIFA 2013, Starcraft, Tekken 3, Need For Speed and so on. There also dance sports. So, by far the categories are still vogue, but I bet the Asian going to work this way out in the future.

This year is Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games go to their 4th cycle, the host is Incheon, South Korea. Our main interest in chess event. According to Wikipedia, there going to be four medals in chess:

Men's individual classical  
Gold - Yu Yangyi
Silver - Salem Abdurahman
Bronze - Ding Liren

Women's individual classical 
Gold - Hou Yifan
Silver - Zhao Xue
Bronze - Bhakti Pradip Kulkarni

Rapid mixed team
Gold - China
Silver - Independent OC
Bronze - Vietnam

Blitz mixed team
Gold - Vietname
Silver - China
Bronze - Indonesia

Official website for overall event, for Chess , LIVE GAMES

This format are popular in Asia, mimic the format on badminton, and table tennis for that mixed team category. In Men's, we have Le Quang Liem and Ding Liren , two above 2700+ FIDE Rated, so no kidding on this one. After three rounds seems like the turmoil of warming up still there for Le.


4th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games 2013, Incheon South Korea
Top 10 Final Result  round 7


1GMYu YangyiCHN26756.5
2GMSalem Abdulrahman Mohamed SalehUAE25315.5
3GMDing LirenCHN27025.0
4GMSethuraman Panayappan SethuramAOI25605.0
5GMDzhumaev MaratUZB25535.0
6GMJumabayev RinatKAZ25485.0
7GMAl Medaihki Mohd Ahmed A JQAT25464.5
8GMSengupta DeepAOI25484.5
9IMSyah Farid FirmanINA23964.5
10GMTsegmed BatchuluunMGL25174.5
more result on chess-result.com 


While Viswanathan Anand obviously would go to Asian Indoor Games, two former FIDE Female Chess Champion, Hou Yifan and Zhu Chen duly present China and Qatar federation. In fact, chess in AIMAG lack of Indian players, (notes: AOI federation is present). This would make China federation without much countering power, except for Vietnam maybe. 

4th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games 2013, Incheon South Korea
Top 10 Result Final round 7 - Women's

1GMHou YifanCHN25956.5
2GMZhao XueCHN25656.0
3WGMKulkarni Bhakti PradipAOI22465.5
4WGMNakhbayeva GuliskhanKAZ23395.0
5GMZhu ChenQAT24945.0
6WGMSukandar Irine KharismaINA23644.5
7Frayna Janelle MaePHI20964.5
8WIMHejazipour MitraIRI22504.5
9WGMMuminova NafisaUZB23214.5
10WIMKhademalsharieh SarasadatIRI23154.5

more result on chess-result.com

Hou Yifan had no problem along her three games. Her strongest opponent by far was Indonesia's WGM Irine K. Sukandar. Playing in Closed Sicilian defence, Irine never cracked the opening. At move 12...Nxf3 she follow aggresive Knight manuever but risk open up a files for rook for a compensation of two isolated and double up pawns on white side. The challenge was never too much for white, but successful in forcing the game into Knight vs Bishop endgames. In a difficult endgame, Irine failed to defence and let white's stronger pawn in the King's side to advance.

Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games 2013
Hou Yifan vs Irine K. Sukandar 1-0, B23



Partai catur Hou Yifan vs Irine Kharisma Sukandar , Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games 2013. Dengan pembelaan Sisilia tertutup Irine membalaskan langkah 1.e4 sang mantan juara dunia wanita Hou Yifan. Sepanjang pembukaan tampak di komputer bahwa Irine tidak terlalu mampu memberi jawaban yang berbahaya untuk putih. Pembukaan berlanjut dengan manuver agresif Irine hingga di langkah 12... hitam memaksa putih untuk bermain dengan struktur bidak yang lebih jelek, yaitu bidak tumpuk dan ter-isolasi. Tetapi tantangan ini tidak membahayakan putih, walaupun mampu menahan permainan hingga ke posisi permainan akhir dengan pola Kuda vs Gajah. Di permainan akhir yang lebih rumit ini Irine gagal menemukan pertahanan terbaik dan membiarkan bidak putih di sayap raja untuk lebih sukses mencapai garis promosi. Di posisi akhir, hitam tidak mampu menjawab ancaman kuda putih di 43. Nf6 (Kf6, notasi Indonesia) dan harus menyerah.


Hou Yifan vs Irine K. Sukandar, 4th Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games 2013
(foto dishare dari FB pak Kristianus Liem, SCUA Indonesia)



South Korean female chess player in action against Bangladeshi opponent
(photo from official site)



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