Juniors win first round

Juniors win first round

JAKARTA (JP): Three Indonesian junior chess players had a good
start in the World Youth Chess Championship in Oropesa del Mar,
Spain, by beating their opponents.

"Percasi Master (MP) Andrean Susilodinata, 10, beat Alex
Cuevas of Argentina at the 31st move of Caro-Kann defense. He
controlled the game from the 16th move," a spokesman of the
Indonesian Chess Association (Percasi) Kristianus Liem said in a
fax sent to The Jakarta Post Thursday.

"MP Taufik Halay, 13, also beat his opponent, Himanshu Kumar,
of India using the King Hindu defense at the 30th move."

Another victory was achieved by MP Ferry Ferdiansah, 11, who
beat Wang Hao from China using the French defense. Wang's king
was check-mated at the 45th move.

Unfortunately, MP Susanto Megaranto, 13, had to kneel at the
27th move before his opponent Eduardo Garcia Pichon of Colombia
who used Marshall Gambit variation of the Spanish defense.

MP Tirta Chandra, 14, was beaten by Dmytry Maximov of Ukraine
at the 52nd move of Spanish defense.

In the second round, Andrean meets Daulet Duskujanov of
Kazakhstan, Ferry faces Laszlo Gonda of Hungary, and Taufik meets
Sahar Chen of Israel.

Meanwhile, Susanto faces Belgian Luk Vanstreels and Chandra
meets Canadian Samuel Lipnowski. (nvn)