JAPFA wins chess tourney

JAPFA wins chess tourney

JAKARTA (JP): JAPFA chess team of Surabaya beat Bali Jeff team
of Bali 3-1 to claim the 2000 Indonesian chess league title at
Novotel Surabaya on Wednesday. JAPFA pocketed Rp 8 million and
Bali Jeff Rp 6 million.

JAPFA's win came after Grand Master (GM) Darryl Johansen
(Australia) and GM Edhi Handoko overcome International Master
(IM) Salor Sitanggang and National Master (NM) Sebastian
Simanjuntak, while top players GM Utut Adianto (Indonesia) and GM
Alex Wojkiewicz (Poland) tied with Bali Jeff's foreign payers GM
Eugene Torre and GM Rogelio Antonio Jr., both from the
Philippines.

Jakarta-based BNI'46 team finished third, defeating BTPN team
of Bandung 2.5-1.5. BTPN's FIDE Master (FM) Awam Wahono beat IM
Nathanael Situru on the second board to earn the first point for
his team, but BNI'46 managed to equalize through FM Syarif
Mahmud, who outclassed NM Deni Sonjaya on the fourth board.

BNI sealed the victory with veteran player GM Ardiansyah
beating FM Hamdani Rudin on the third board. On the first board,
IM Danny Juswanto was forced to draw with NM Cecep Kosasih, said
tournament spokesman Kristianus Liem in a media release on
Wednesday.

In the closing ceremony, chief of the organizing committee
Jeffrie Geovanie said the league would be held again next year in
Bali, with two bottom finishers to face relegation.(ivy)