Utut succumbs to Hickl in local chess tourney<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Utut Adianto stumbled on the 25th move and fell
\nseven steps later to Joerg Hickl, the German grandmaster who
\nknows him inside out, in the Gunadarma International Grandmaster
\nChess Tournament's fourth round here yesterday.<\/p>\n
The Indonesian grandmaster, who tried to offset his
\ndisadvantage of playing with the black pieces with an English
\ndefense, started the game with a series of bold attacks in order
\nto break Hickl's defense.<\/p>\n
Hickl, who shared the BNI International Chess Tournament title
\nwith Utut here in July, soon spotted a weakness in Utut's
\naggressiveness and maneuvered a knight to weaken Utut's king-side
\ndefense.<\/p>\n
To make things worse, Utut blundered on the 25th move. Hickl
\ncapitalized on the error by capturing Utut's f6 knight with a
\nrook and thus destroying Utut's king-side defense.<\/p>\n
It was Utut's first loss, coming after three successive draws.<\/p>\n
In other matches, international master Ruben Gunawan of
\nIndonesia also fell on the 32nd move, to Ivan Sokolov of Bosnia-
\nHerzegovina. Until the 16th move, Ruben was able to hold Sokolov,
\nwhose elo rating of 2,670 is the highest in the tournament.<\/p>\n
A step later Sokolov made an excellent pawn move which paved
\nthe way for him to take control of the open c file.<\/p>\n
But on the 28th move, it became obvious Ruben's days were
\nnumbered. Sokolov, who formed a Queen's Indian defense to
\ncounter Ruben's advantage of playing with the white pieces,
\nimprisoned Ruben's c3 knight with his c8 queen. On the 31st move,
\nSokolov put Ruben between Scylla and Charybdis as he offered his
\nc3 queen to Ruben, who could not capture it because that would
\nresult in a checkmate. On the 32nd move, Ruben raised the white
\nflag.<\/p>\n
The other result of the day was that Michal Krasenkow of
\nPoland drew with Eugenio Torre of the Philippines after 24 moves.
\n(arf)<\/p>",
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