Salor leads selection for European tour team<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): International Master Salor Sitanggang has taken
\nthe lead in the selection tournament for the Bali Jeff Indonesia
\nteam for its European tour starting next month.<\/p>\n
Salor's score is 2.5 Victory Points following his victory
\nagainst Ruby Tamono in the third round of the competition
\nWednesday.<\/p>\n
Salor defeated Ruby on the 75th move after the Peti opening.<\/p>\n
Fide Master Hamdani Rudin, IM Nasib Ginting and IM Ivan Situru
\nare all on 2 VPs following victories against their most recent
\nopponents.<\/p>\n
Hamdani won against IM Dede Liu on the 48th move after a
\nKing's Indian opening, while Nasib beat National Master Erwin
\nYulianto on the 67th move and Ivan ousted NM Novian Siregar in 43
\nmoves.<\/p>\n
The fourth round will be held today where Salor will meet
\nHamdani, Nasib plays against Dede and Ivan meets Erwin.<\/p>\n
The Bali Jeff Indonesia tournament features 12 players. The
\nbest two will be chosen for the team. They will tour a number of
\nEuropean countries for three months together with the other three
\nplayers already chosen for the tour starting January next year.<\/p>\n
The three other players are Grandmasters Utut Adianto, Ruben
\nGunawan and Edhie Handoko.<\/p>\n
It was expected that from the three-month tour, Utut, Ruben
\nand Edhie's elo ratings will increase. For the two other players,
\nit is hoped that they could move to higher positions, and
\nhopefully become grandmasters. (lnt)<\/p>",
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