The annual Japfa Chess Festival is happening now in Jakarta. The highlight of this chess festival is on the GRANDMASTER Tournament. This year, 12 titled players have been invited, they are top seeded by Sergey Tiviakov, followed by G.N. Gopal and Antonio Rogelio. There are a balance of six foreign players and six locals. The tournament sponsor indicated that the tournament invited non-GM local players only in the hope that these players will get GM -norm.
As for round 1, the highlight is Sean Winshand Cuhendi victory over G.N. Gopal. Sean is International Master and strongest Indonesian player in the field. The game followed a wild Taimanov Sicilian that just being played in Tblisi 2015 between Mamedyarov and Anish Giri. In this wild middle game, black gained promising queen side attack to white long castled king. In the end Gopal made terrible blunder that allowed Sean Winshand to easily crushing the attack on the exposed king.
As for round 2, Vietnam representative GM Nguyen Anh Dung extended his early lead by defeating another Indonesian player, IM Tirta Chandra Purnama. Nguyen defeated Irine Kharisma Sukandar in round 1, so now he is on perfect 2/2 point.
The event being played in Hotel Kartika Jakarta from 14-23rd April 2015. It is a round robin of 11 rounds out of 12 players. With the upcoming rumor of super chess league where Jakarta is mentioned as one of the host, this Japfa chess tournament will worth international attention.
Games can be viewed at chessbomb.com, but currently only aired round 1. The rumoured official live stream page is still not smoothly working. The site can be visit HERE.
LIVE GAMES ALSO AVAILABLE HERE, only active when the games being played.
The tournament include IM Alina L'Ami who tweet this and became quite viral among Indonesian chess communities . See Alina L'Ami excellent photography report
Happy to be back in the country that loves and respects chess so much: Indonesia! On a walk on Jakarta's streets... pic.twitter.com/RcEjx0mflO
— Alina l'Ami (@alinalami) April 13, 2015
Round 2 Standings - Japfa Grandmaster Tournament 20151. GM Nguyen Anh Dung 2
2. GM Tiviakov Sergei 1.5
3. IM Sean Winshand Cuhendi 1.5
4, WGM Aulia Medina Warda 1.5
5, IM L'Ami Alina 1
6, IM Farid Firman Syah 1
7, IM Milliet Sophie 1
8. GM Antonio Rogelio Jr 1
9. GM Gopal G.N 0.5
10. FM Ali Muhammad Lutfi 0.5
11. IM Sukandar Irine Kharisma 0.5
12 IM Purnama Tirta Chandra 0
UPDATED ROUND 3 RESULTS:
GM Nguyen Anh Dung ½ - ½ WGM Aulia Medina Warda
IM Milliet Sophie ½ - ½ IM Purnama Tirta Chandra
GM Antonio Rogelio Jr 0 - 1 IM Sukandar Irine Kharisma
GM Tiviakov Sergei ½ - ½ IM Farid Firman Syah
IM Sean Winshand Cuhendi ½ - ½ FM Ali Muhammad Lutfi
gM Gopal G.N 1 - 0 IM L'Ami Alina
UPDATE : SEAN WINSHAND WON JAPFA GM TOURNAMENT 2015
2015 Japfa Chess Grandmaster Tournament Participants
photo from PBPercasi
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Turnamen grandmaster di Festival Catur Japfa 2015 telah berlangsung 2 babak hingga hari Kamis ini. Kejutan di babak pertama adalah kemenangan International Master Sean Winshand Cuhendi atas unggulan ke dua, yaitu pecatur India G.N. Gopal. Di partai dengan pembelaan Sisilia ini, G.N.Gopal punya bangunan yang menjanjikan sebagai hitam, blunder-blunder mewarnai partai catur ini. Di akhir, Gopal adalah yang terakhir blunder dengan menjauhkan menterinya ke tepi dan tidak mengawal petak d7 yang berbahaya. Sean adalah pecatur Indonesia dengan rating tertinggi di tournament ini. Kabarnya sponsor turnamen catur Japfa ini berharap bisa lahir grandmaster-grandmaster baru karena terlihat undangan dan kesempatan hanya diberikan pada pemain dengan gelar non-GM tahun ini.
Hingga ronde dua pecatur Vietnam Nguyen Anh Dung memenangkan 2 partai, melawan Irine di babak 1 dan Tirta Purnama di babak 2. Nguyen menduduki klasemen, disusul sang "suhu" GM Sergei Tiviakov. Turnamen ini akan berlangsung hingga tanggal 23 dengan 11 ronde sistem "Round-Robin" alias semua peserta akan ketemuan. Posisi klasemen sementara bisa dilihat di atas.
Turnamen catur Japfa 2015 ini bisa disaksikan di chessbomb.com dan juga, beberapa sumber mengatakan bisa diakses di PB Percasi, namun masih macet-macet. Semoga di ronde berikutnya sudah lancar untuk diikuti penggemar catur secara online. Mengingat adanya rumor bahwa Jakarta akan menjadi salah satu tuan rumah LIGA Catur Emas bergengsi dunia, maka profesionalisme melangsungkan ajang turnamen catur harusnya segera di"asah" juga di turnamen Japfa ini.
Partai Catur
Sean Winshand Cuhendi vs G.N. Gopal 1-0, Japfa Jakarta 2015
B48 Sicilian Taimanov
UPDATE: SEAN WINSHAND MENANGKAN TURNAMEN GRANDMASTER JAPFA 2015
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