Indonesia Open Chess Championship 2013 - Round 7

We enter the 4th day of the 3rd Indonesia Open Chess Championship (IOCC 2013). The participant are over 50+ foreigner players from all around the world and top local players. Quite prestigious by European standard for its 3rd edition by now, as declared by English-man participant GM Nigel Short in the interview during the tournament.

Of course the chess fans attention are widely divided as there are many others elite chess tournaments, also in progress. Notably the Russian Super Final Male and Female version, the King Tournament, Bilbao Super GM Final Masters, and Chigorin Memorial, oh you named it. If I observed correctly , combining last week's FIDE Grand Prix,  all top 20 Chess Player of this week are busy with their tournament, except for Magnus Carlsen and Vishy Anand, that waiting for the pen ultimate event of the year.

So, with that hectic schedule for the chess spectators, Indonesia Open needed something special to capture the attention. It is easy however, because the broadcast time was about 12 hours earlier than most European events, and especially Indonesia Open was held as two rounds/day (it's not every day, actually) and the watching hours are extended from 9am to 21pm local time. And for this happy hours, the time control for each game also different, and shorter. I noticed there were no 2nd time control. Thus with this in effect, it seems like blunders are hardly to avoid in the last minutes. Meaning, the player almost need to combined the classic time control + blitz skill to win a single game. But for spectators this is actually attractive menu to watch!

There are a lot of blunders, here some of most puzzle-like and decisive:

Alexander Moiseenko vs Darwin Laylo 1-0, Round 7
was the quite dramatic, the player takes turn to give a blunder after 26..Kf6. Moiseenko was unfortunate in round 6 earlier morning. According to arbiter in social network chat, he simply arriving late in the hall to play Alexey Dreev, eventhough the tournament did not use a zero start rule (it will never be used in Indonesia by nature ;p), but there were a 30 minutes grace period, before declared as W.O.

Grigoryan Avetik vs Elizabeth Paethz 0-1, Round 7
after complication post the opening, white make a tactical error. Can you spot the winning move for black? Amazingly Elizabeth did it, and thus she was standing as the highest rank female at the current standing.

Nigel Short vs John Paul Gomez 1-0, Round 7
Nigel Short ended his streak of draw with this miniature win. After the French Opening, black made a mistake, Nigel Short thinks for a moment and landed the blowing move...

Alexander Cherniaev vs Gopal GN 0-1, Round 5
Almost quite elementary blunder, but this was in time trouble as I remember. Simply tactic give black a winning position.

Ivan Sokolov vs Vadim Malakhatko 0.5-0.5, Round 5
Again, this one is a slip victory for Ivan. After a fine intensive game and reach this end game position, white just not having enough time to find the winning move, the game then draw.

Salem AR Saleh vs Tirta Purnama Chandra 0-1, Round 4
The local players are not doing great in their turf home. Only veteran IM Dede Lioe still catching the rope with his 2600 performance. Round 4 was the last to witness local boys defeating GM for this moment. White simply error in the last minute and saw Black easily landed a beautiful attack to end the game.

All game can be viewed below, including GM Alexey Dreev vs GM Susanto Megaranto in round 4, where the highest local player can't refuse the American to take revenge over their 2011 encounter.

Rank after Round 7
Rk.	Seed		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.
1	3	GM	Dreev Aleksey	RUS	2679	6
2	16	GM	Mareco Sandro	ARG	2565	5.5
3	1	GM	Moiseenko Alexander	UKR	2703	5
4	5	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	IND	2639	5
5	7	GM	Ivanisevic Ivan	SRB	2632	5
6	2	GM	Short Nigel D	ENG	2684	5
7	17	GM	Ghaem Maghami Ehsan	IRI	2556	5
8	37	IM	Paehtz Elisabeth	GER	2440	5
9	31	IM	Nguyen Duc Hoa	VIE	2486	5
10	22	GM	Vaibhav Suri	IND	2527	4.5
11	30	GM	Hoang Thanh Trang	HUN	2495	4.5
12	4	GM	Iturrizaga Eduardo	VEN	2658	4.5
13	23	GM	Malakhatko Vadim	BEL	2519	4.5
14	9	GM	Vazquez Igarza Renier	ESP	2602	4.5
15	55	IM	Lioe Dede	INA	2375	4.5

total result HERE  - Indonesia Open at Chessdom 

Game Viewer - selected games Indonesia Open Chess Championship 2013
Salem AR Saleh vs Tirta Purnama Chandra
Alexey Dreev vs Susanto Megaranto

Game Viewer - selected games Indonesia Open Chess Championship 2013
Nigel Short vs John Paul Gomez
Alexander Moiseenko vs Darwin Laylo
Grigoryan Avetik vs Elisabeth Paehtz
Game Viewer - selected games Indonesia Open Chess Championship 2013
Ivan Sokolov vs Vadim Malakhatko

Olympiad 2010 R2 - Tirta Purnama Beats Smirin

Dalam setiap event catur, memiliki "moment indah" adalah hal  penting. Masuk ke ronde dua,  paling tidak moment tersebut telah dimiliki tim Merah Putih. Hari ini Tirta Chandra Purnama men-secure moment tersebut dengan mengalahkan GM Illya Smirin dalam pertahanan Queen Indian yang seru di partai Israel vs Indonesia babak kedua Olimpiade 2010 Khanty Mansisyk. Sementara Anjas Novita musti rela di checkmate oleh GM Maxim Rodhstein. Di partai papan pertama GM Megaranto Susanto berada pada posisi cukup seimbang tetapi dalam keadaan time-crisis melawan GM Emil Sutovsky dan akhirnya draw setelah tukaran Queen. Agak mendingan adalah posisi IM Irwanto Sadikin melawan GM Victor Mikhalevski yang tinggal endgame Kuda dan malahan putih (Irwanto) punya bidak extra.

Di partai puteri, perjuangan babak kedua sudah cukup berat karena pairingnya melalui website online terlihat Indonesia ketemu India. Papan pertama WGM Irene K. Sukandar melawan Harika Dronavali di mana Putih musti defend di endgame Rook dalam posisi deficit 1 pion. Partai Monica C. Sihite vs Eesha Karavade juga putih musti defend melawan pion-pion bebas hitam. Medina draw melawan Nisha Mohote.

Match 4. Israel Indonesia - Round 2

Sutovsky, Emil vs Megaranto, Susanto  1/2-1/2
Smirin, Ilia vs Purnama, Tirta Chandra 0-1
Rodshtein, Maxim vs Novita, Anjas 1-0
Mikhalevski, Victor vs Irwanto, Sadikin 1/2-1/2

Women:
Match 7. Indonesia India

Sukandar, Irine Kharisma - Harika, Dronavalli 0-1
Dewi, AA Citra - Tania, Sachdev 0-1
Sihite, Chelsie Monica - Karavade, Eesha 0-1
Medina, Warda Aulia - Mohota, Nisha 1/2-1/2

Sementara itu berita trivia lainnya adalah:
Babak 1 pecatur berating 1700 Jason menang checkmate melawan GM Emre Can.
Babak 2 GM Hikaru Nakamura, hitam, melawan pecatur Mongolia Gundaava cukup unik dan jadi perhatian karena si Mongol tidak mampu memenangkan posisi unggul dan malah kalah mengenaskan karena time crisis.
Babak 2 Tim Vietnam is doing good melawan tim super kuat Azerbaijan di mana tiga board remis dan tinggal Rauf Mamedov yang masih bertahan melawan pecatur Vietnam, dari analisa Rybka di Chessdom si Vietnam dah ada nilai minus 1, dia hitam dan menang.

Untuk babak 3, Indonesia akan pairing melawan Slovenia di mana GM gaek Alexander Beliavsky ada di papan pertama sedangkan di papan kedua adalah GM muda Lenic Luka. Di papan berikutnya adalah GM Dusko Pavasovic yang lihai di pembukaan Sicilian Alapin dan Scotch. Berikutnya GM Borisek Jure.

Sedangkan yang puteri akan ketemu tim Sri Lanka di babak tiga.

Lihat juga blog dari ground zero oleh manager puteri di http:://potretcatur.blogspot.com

Asian Team Championship-Round 6

India A won the Tata Steel Asian Team Chess Championship 2009 Men's section. India A get 12 match points after finishing Singapore 3.5-0.5 in round 6, while nearest rivals like Vietnam and Iran still at 9 match points. In round 6 Indonesian's men join the misery company, suffering a 4-0 lost to Vietnam.

GM Megaranto face a well known GM Le Quang Liem, the game went in classical battle of Nimzo India Defence with bishop pair vs knight+bishop. Black slowly outplayed in this positional game.

Most exciting game is IM Tirta Chandra Purnama vs GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son. Black played an intrique bishop sacrifice 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.a4 Bf5 6.Ne5 e6 7.f3 Bb4 8.e4 Bxe4!? and force White's king to flee his comfortable square in the next moves. White again gains much promising attack in kingside but a weak 36.b5? spoiled everything.

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GM Bui Vinh played an aggresive early Trompowsky's Bishop vs FM Anjas Novita and wins. While Farid Firmansyah get out of a promising Ruy Lopez opening but soon went into lost position and jumped into a mate pattern by GM Nguyen Anh Dung who played the Black side. This concluded a 4-0 victory by Vietnam but the result is very much reflected to their respective rating, as condolence words...

The Indonesian Women team also lost 3.5-0.5 with only WGM Irene manage to secured half point over WGM Le Thanh Tu whom several points above Irene. Live and replay games http://www.asianteamchess09.com/livegames.asp

Men's Standing after round 6:
1.INDIA A ............. 12 118,0 75,0
2.VIETNAM ......... 9 108,0 76,0
3.IRAN.................. 8,0 66,5
4.INDIA B .............8 43,0 58,5
5.INDONESIA...... 6 48,0 71,5
6. BANGLADESH 6 38,0 60,5
7. SINGAPORE.... 4 35,0 74,0
8. SRILANKA....... 3 10,0 62,0
9. YEMEN............ 2 14,0 60,5
10. NEPAL ...........1 10,5 56,5

Women's Standing after round 6:
1. VIETNAM...... 11 97,5 73,5
2. INDIA.............. 9 82,5 70,5
3. INDIA B ..........9 71,5 63,5
4. IRAN................ 7 75,5 53,0
5. SINGAPORE.... 6 51,5 60,0
6. INDONESIA.... 4 39,5 60,5
7. BANGLADESH . 4 27,0 57,5
8. SRILANKA ........ 3 6,0 61,0
9. NEPAL............... 1 0,0 55,0
Annotation:
Tie Break1: Matchpoints (2 for wins, 1 for Draws, 0 for Losses)
Tie Break2: Olympiad-Sonneborn-Berger-Tie-Break
Tie Break3: Buchholz Tie-Breaks (variabel with parameter)

Full result see here.


Final Round 7 pairing:
MEN 1
SRILANKA (3) vs INDIA A (12)
2 IRAN (9) vs INDIA B (8)
3 VIETNAM (9) vs NEPAL (1)
4 BANGLADESH (6) vs SINGAPORE (4)
5 YEMEN (2) vs INDONESIA (6)

Women
1 NEPAL (1) vs VIETNAM (11)
2 IRAN (7) vs INDIA B (9)
3 INDONESIA (4) vs SINGAPORE (6)
4 SRILANKA (3) vs BANGLADESH (4)
5 INDIA A (9) Bye

Perebutan juara pertama di Kejuaraan Beregu Asia Kolkatta musti diakhiri setelah India A berhasil mencapai 12 match point. India A mengalahkan Singapore di babak 6, sementara Iran dan Vietnam masih bertahan di nilai 9. Vietnam yang menjadi lawan Indonesia di babak 6 gagal dibendung dan mempertahankan tradisi 4-0 di tiap babak. Partai pertama Megaranto berlangsung ketat dan positional tapi Megaranto yang bermain hitam dengan Nimzo indian defence pelan-pelan kehilangan kontrol dan kalah.

Partai paling seru ada di papan IM Tirta Chandra lawan pecatur muda Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son. Si Nguyen bermain tajam korban Gajah di pembelaan mirip-mirip Slavia tapi juga mirip Gambit Menteri di terima ini. Sementara siaran langsung lainnya GM Bui Vinh juga main tajam melawan Anjas Novita. Sedangkan Firmansyah pelan-pelan juga gagal membendung lawan GMnya. Hasil ini kurang lebih tercermin dari rating lawan Indonesia yang semuanya jauh di atas pemain Indonesia. Hal yang sama juga tercermin di regu puteri yang juga kalah 3.5-0.5, hasil seri dipetik WGM Irene.

Partai terakhir adalah Indonesia vs Yemen, yang kemungkinan besar bisa jadi ajang balas dendam atas hasil kemarin, dan di bagian puteri Indonesia melawan tetangga terdekat Singapora. Yang jauh lebih penting dari mengejar ketertinggalan dari Vietnam adalah sekarang bagaimana agar tidak terkejar oleh Singapore.

Selamat Hari Natal dan Tahun Baru 2010.