Partai Catur Jadul Nainggolan vs Ong Yok Hwa 1966

Sebuah cuplikan partai catur di tahun 1966 kembali saya temukan di surat kabar asing, yaitu di The Canberra Times. Tanggalannya adalah 21 Juli 1966. Partai Catur ini mengupas pecatur Nainggolan (Putih) dan pecatur legendaris Indonesia yaitu Ong Yok Hwa (hitam). Di kolom catur tersebut, pecatur Ong Yok Hwa disebut sebagai pemenang "Challenger Tournament 1965", namun tidak dijelaskan lebih detail turnamen apakah gerangan di tahun tersebut. Pecatur Ong Yok Hwa dikenal juga dengan nama Eddy Rusli. Di Partai Catur ini hitam bermain Pembelaan Pirc / Pirc Defence. Silahkan disimak partai catur jadul di bawah ini:

The Canberra Times dated 21 July 1966 put in a chess games between Indonesian player of the 60s. White was Nainggolan and black was Indonesian famous player Ong Yok Hwa aka Eddy Rusli. In this chess column by The Canberra Times, the editor Mautner, comments on the game which played on Pirc Defence. Black successfully penetrated White's centre because of the d-files weaknesses by White. It was reported that Ong Yok Hwa was Challenger Tournament winner of 1965, but not detailed on what "Challenger Tournament" it was.

The Canberra Times Chess Column scan

from The Canberra Times Chess Column 21 July 1966

Partai Catur Jadul Lajos Portisch vs Hamdan - Adelaide 1971

Berikut adalah sebuah temuan kliping surat kabar yang menunjukkan pecatur Indonesia bernama Hamdan beradu catur melawan Grandmaster Lajos Portisch dari Hungaria. Turnamen tersebut kemungkinan adalah Australia Open tahun 1971. Di partai catur jadul tersebut, pecatur Hamdan bermain kurang akurat dan mempermudah sang Grandmaster mencapai pola skak mat di sayap raja. Partai catur dengan pembukaan Gambit Menteri Ditolak tersebut kemudian dipakai oleh penulis kolom catur George Stern untuk artikelnya yang berjudul "Crime and Punishment", sebagai analogi partai caturnya. Kolom catur tersebut dimuat di surat kabar The Canberra Times, 10 Februari 1971. Nama pecatur lainnya adalah Bachtiar, pemenang turnamen adalah Lajos Portisch disusul Walter Browne. Analisa dan langkah-langkah catur tersebut bisa disimak di bawah, dibawakan khusus untuk penggemar catur Indonesia oleh red-white-chess.blogspot.com .

Trace of Indonesian chess player in Australia found in this chess column from The Canberra Times, 10 February 1971. The article titled "Crime and Punishment" wrote by George Stern highlight two chess games for its adventurous theme, the first game was Australian players John Alps vs Baker. Then the second game was Lajos Portisch vs Hamdan, from Indonesia. In this QGD game, Lajos Portisch simply get a nice mating pattern on King's side and the Indonesian player simply did not find the best defensive system against it. See this nice, rather instructive game by the Hungarian grandmaster.

The tournament in context was probably Australia Open 1971 held in Adelaide. The winner was Lajos Portisch by half point ahead Walter Browne. From the article the standing was:

Adelaide - Karlis Lidum Tournament / Australia Open 1971 (?)
Final Standing:
1. Lajos Portisch
2-4 Walter Browne 
Florin Gheorgiu
Lothar Schmidt
5. Alexander Matanovic
Bachtiar (Indonesia)
Barber, Flatow, Fuller, Hay, Hamilton (Australia)

The Canberra Times - Chess column by George Stern

10 February 1971

Alexey Dreev Won 3rd Indonesia Open Chess Champ 2013

He was leading through all rounds of the tournament, Alexey Dreev finally sealed the first place with full point ahead his competitors. Dreev won the 3rd Indonesia Open Chess Championship that held in this week, from 10th October to 17th October 2013, Jakarta. Dreev won the title undefeated.

In the final round (round 11), Dreev force to take a draw result against Gopal, who used a solid Gruenfeld line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bf4 O-O 6.Rc1 dxc4 7.e3, which almost draw in many games. In next board, Nigel Short come back from nowhere and pushed away Moiseenko's chances to win the first title. In the offbeat 1.e4 c5 2.b3! Sicilian, Short just dominated the play until endgame. Hence, Nigel awarded third place right behind Dreev and Moiseenko. This is happening because all other Nigel's competitors did not successful in adding more point, thus letting the ex-world champion challenger jump to the third place. There are about nine players on second place with 7.5/11, Alexander Moiseenko and Nigel Short are the best tie-break recipients.

For Indonesian players, GM Susanto Megaranto again is the only one pull himself as the highest point grabber. Susanto managed to get 7/11 second by GM Ardiansyah while IM Dede Lioe despite a solid middle round performances finished at 6/11. WGM Irene K. Sukandar is the highest score for Indonesian girl at 6/11 and Medina Aulia Warda just half point behind. Good news is most of the Indonesian players added more Elo rating point in this tournament.

3rd Indonesia Open was played 11 rounds on 7 days without rest day, it used a two rounds per day arrangement.

Final result 3rd Indonesia Open Chess Championship:

1	3	GM	Dreev Aleksey	RUS	2679	8.5	69	63
2	1	GM	Moiseenko Alexander	UKR	2703	7.5	72.5	66
3	2	GM	Short Nigel D	ENG	2684	7.5	71	65
4	5	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	IND	2639	7.5	68	62
5	23	GM	Malakhatko Vadim	BEL	2519	7.5	66.5	61.5
6	10	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	IND	2593	7.5	66	60.5
7	22	GM	Vaibhav Suri	IND	2527	7.5	65	60.5
8	21	GM	Gopal G N	IND	2527	7.5	65	59
9	18	GM	Shyam Sundar M	IND	2536	7.5	63.5	58
10	26	GM	Dao Thien Hai	VIE	2500	7.5	60	55.5
18	20	GM	Megaranto Susanto	INA	2528	7	61	56.5
21	56	GM	Ardiansyah	INA	2368	7	55.5	52
23	29	GM	Stefanova Antoaneta	BUL	2496	6.5	67.0	61.5
26	30	GM	Hoang Thanh Trang	HUN	2495	6.5	65.5	59.5
29	37	IM	Paehtz Elisabeth	GER	2440	6.5	61.5	57
34	55	IM	Lioe Dede	INA	2375	6	64.5	59.5
37	49	IM	Farid Firman Syah	INA	2392	6	61	57.5
39	85		Mohamad Ervan	INA	2260	6	60.5	56
45	57	WGM	Sukandar Irine Kharisma	INA	2363	6	58	53.5

see chess-result for complete results  - report by CHESSBASE  -  CHESSDOM - CHESSVIBES
PGN and Bulletin 

Best Indonesian Players 3rd Indonesia Open Chess Championship 2013:
1. GM Susanto Megaranto
2. GM H Ardiansyah
3. IM Dede Lioe
4. FM Syarif Mahmud
5. FM Novita Anjas

Best Woman Players 3rd Indonesia Open Chess Championship 2013 :
1. GM Antoaneta Stefanova
2. GM Hoang Thanh Trang
3. IM Elisabeth Paehtz
4. WGM Irine Kharisma Sukandar
5. WIM Medina Warda Aulia

Best U20  3rd Indonesia Open Chess Championship 2013:
1. IM Farid Firmansyah
2. GM Saleh AR Saleh
3. FM Anton Smirnov
4. FM Le Tuan Minh
5. WGM Saduakassova Dinara

International title norms were achieved by:
IM
1. Anjas Novitas, 2. Masruri Rahman. 3. Mohamad Ervan and 4. Anton Smirnoff, 5. Pradeep Kumar RA

WIM
1. Citra AA Dewi

Aleksey Dreev sebagai unggulan ketiga akhirnya tampil sebagai jawara di turnamen Catur Indonesia Terbuka atau 3rd Indonesia Open Chess Championship. Tak terkalahkan Aleksey Dreev mengumpulkan nilai 8.5 atas 11 ronde. Di babak terakhir, Dreev dipaksa hasil remis oleh pecatur Gopal yang bermain buah hitam. Gopal menggunakan pembelaan Gruenfeld dengan line yang solid, di mana sequen  1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bf4 O-O 6.Rc1 dxc4 7.e3 hampir selalu menghasilkan hasil remis.

Juara dua dan tiga adalah unggulan 1 dan 2, yaitu Alexander Moiseenko dan mantan penantang Juara Dunia grandmaster Nigel Short dari Inggris. Nigel Short sebenarnya sudah terlempar di luar tiga besar, tapi dia mengalahkan GM Alexander Moiseenko dengan jawaban off-beat  1.e4 c5 2.b3!  untuk pembelaan Sisilia. Ajaibnya semua pecatur saingannya juga tidak bisa menambah nilai di babak terakhir tersebut. Alhasil dari urutan 2 sampai 10 semua shared nilai 7.5. Alexander Moiseenko dan Nigel Short adalah yang memiliki tie-break paling top, sehingga di hasil chess-result.com ada di urutan ke-2 dan ke-3.

Pecatur Indonesia paling tinggi nilainya di catur Indonesia Terbuka masih GM Susanto Megaranto dengan nilai 7/11 disusul oleh GM H Ardiansyah dengan score yang sama. Yang ketiga adalah pecatur IM Dede Lioe yang bermain cukup solid di pertengahan turnamen namun di babak 9 dan 10 menderita kekalahan.

WGM Irene K. Sukandar memimpin perolehan nilai pecatur wanita Indonesia disusul calon WGM Medina Warda. Mereka akan mendapat hadiah tambahan nilai Elo rating. (lihat link di atas untuk performance rating tiap pemain).

Turnamen catur Indonesia Terbuka yang ketiga ini digelar di Hotel Sahid Jaya, Jakarta. Selang seling dua babak per hari. 

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