Mandaluyung upsets Moscow in World Cities Chess C'ship

Mandaluyung upsets Moscow in World Cities Chess C'ship

JAKARTA (JP): Top seed Moscow surprisingly lost to unfancied
Filipino side Manduluyung in the second round of the World Cities
Chess Championship here yesterday.

Filipino youngster Ronald Bancod scored a sensational win over
former world title candidate Sergei Tiviakov in four hours and
almost 100 moves.

With Bancod's win, Manduluyung beat Moscow 2.5VP-1.5VP.

Oslo missed a chance to take first place when its top player,
Einar Gausel, lost to GM Herman Suradiradja of the Depok Beji
team.

The match between Gausel and Herman created a dispute when an
arbiter stepped in and stopped the players' clock when both
Gausel and Herman had less than 30 seconds to complete the game.

Gausel complained that Herman was moving a pawn as if it was a
powerful queen -- the pawn had reached the eighth rank but had
not been replaced with a queen as the rules required.

Although Gausel was awarded a time penalty, it was
insufficient for him to save the game. Herman checkmated Gausel
with six seconds left.

On the first day of the championship Tuesday, Australian
Grandmaster Ian Rogers lost to an unknown Indonesian.

Rogers, whose elo rating is 2,579 and playing on the first
board, lost to Junaid Jaya Pamungkas from East Kalimantan's
Bontang team in the 32nd move of the Sicilian defense.

Rogers is a member of the Sydney team. Although Rogers lost,
Sydney beat Bontang 2.5VP-1.5VP.

The Australian GM said he was surprised by how well his
opponent played.

"Junaid played well and I accept my defeat," he said.

Twenty-eight cities from 16 countries including Indonesia,
which is represented by 12 cities are competing in the event.

The Indonesian cities are Depok Margonda, Depok Beji, Depok
Kelapa Dua, Bandung, Jakarta A, Jakarta B, Jakarta Enerpac,
Yogyakarta, Medan, Bontang, Ambon and Jakarta-Gunadarma.

The foreign cities are Moscow (Russia), Donetsk (Ukraine),
Tashkent (Uzbekistan), Oslo (Norway), Sydney (Australia), Ho Chi
Minh (Vietnam), Mandaluyung (the Philippines), Yangon and
Mandalay (Myanmar), Kuala Lumpur and Kuching (Malaysia), Sentosa
and Raffles City (Singapore), Hong Kong (China), Victoria
(Seychelles) and Noumea (New Caledonia).

The championship, which ends July 14, features 17
Grandmasters, 15 International Masters and three women
International Masters.

Eston Malau of the Medan team beat GM Sergey Zagrebelny of the
Tashkent team. But Medan eventually lost to Tashkent 1-3 where
Roberto Perangin-angin, Yohannes Simbolon and Sukarnedi lost to
GM Saidali Tuldachev, GM Mihal Sataey and MI Dimitry Kaiumpov.
(lnt)

Second round results:

Oslo vs Depok Beji 2-2, Depok Kelapa vs Jakarta 2.5-1.5, Ho Chih
Minh vs Jakarta A 2.5-1.5, Mandaluyung vs Moscow 2.5-1.5, Donetsk
vs Bandung 2.5-1.5, Tashkent vs Depok Margonda 2-2, Sydney vs
Ambon 3.5-0.5, Bontang vs Jakarta Women 3.5-0.5, Medan vs
Yogyakarta 3.5-0.5, Yangon vs Kuala Lumpur 3.5-0.5, Mandalay vs
Jakarta B 3-1, Raffles City vs Sentosa 3.5-0.5, Hong Kong vs
Kuching 2-2, Victoria vs Noumea 3-1, and Palu vs Bogor 4-0.