Danny Juswanto wins Enerpac Fair Play

Danny Juswanto wins Enerpac Fair Play

JAKARTA (JP): International Master (MI) Danny Juswanto won the
Enerpac Fair Play chess championship after outclassing his
closest rival, MI Salor Sitanggang of West Java in the 40th move
of the Sicilia Paulsen defense.

Danny said after the match on Friday night at the Utut Adianto
chess school in Bekasi that he understood Salor's play because
both players had met many times. The result puts Danny on top
with 7.5 victory points (VP).

Using the Ben Oni opening, Danny immediately blew Salor's
white pawn at d4 in the third move and formed the Sicilia Paulsen
defense, which, according to Danny, was unfamiliar with Salor.

But in the 22nd move, he sacrificed his pawn in b5 to break
through Salor's solid defense. He dropped another pawn in the 27
Bxd7 to enable his black queen to penetrate into the f2 to block
Salor's move.

Danny's castle helped attack from the second row to force
Salor to give up. There was no other choice for Salor except to
surrender in the last 40th move after Danny's castle in b8
demanded Salor to give either his knight or bishop.

Tournament spokesman Kristianus Liem said second place went to
National Master (MN) Suyud Hartoyo, the 1998 national champion
from East Java, who beat MN Arthur Paat in the 51st move of the
Gambit Benko opening. Suyud collected 7 VP.

MI Dede Liu upset MF Awam Wahono in the 34th move by using the
Sicilian defense while MN Sugeng Prayitno beat the 1999 national
champion MI Cerdas Barus in the 39th move with the King Hindu
defense.

Dede and Sugeng earned 6.5 VP each, but Dede bettered Sugeng
in the victory point in each match. Dede won six matches and only
drew once while Sugeng won five and drew three times.

Young player MN Taufik Halay outshone MN Haryadi Sucipto in
the 30th move of the Sicilian defense. He collected 6 VP along
with Cerdas Barus, Salor, Awam and Arthur. (ivy)