Maria ties in 2nd chess duel

Mon, 17 Jun 1996, 00:00 WIB | Source: JP

JAKARTA (JP): Smarting from her first-match loss, Maria Lucia,
Indonesia's 1991 Asian Junior Chess Champion, forced Georgian
grandmaster Nana Alexandria to a stalemate in their second battle
in Surabaya on Saturday.

The standoff occurred at the 62nd move when Maria moved her
knight to d2, which forced Nana's only free pawn into a deadlock
position.

International judge Mukmin Panggabean announced that the game
could not be continued as Nana could no longer move her free pawn
and declared the game a draw. With this result, Nana was leading
1.5 - 0.5. Maria played her third match against Nana yesterday.
Her fourth and final match takes place today. (arf)

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