RI chess teams do their best

Tue, 27 Dec 1994, 00:00 WIB | Source: JP

JAKARTA (JP): Chairman of the Indonesian Chess Association
(Percasi) Akbar Tanjung, believes Indonesia's chess teams did
their best at the 31st Chess Olympics concluded on Dec. 17 in
Moscow.

Compared to Indonesia's performance at the previous Chess
Olympics in Manila two years ago, the men's team, finishing 28th
in Moscow, was 12 places better, though it failed to meet
Percasi's target of reaching the top 10. The women's team
standing, however, dropped from 18 to 24.

Akbar believed this was the best they could do given that
this time they had to compete with powerful national teams from
the former Soviet republics, the sudden death of the father of
women's ace player Lisa Karlina Lumongdong in the midst of the
Olympics and the fact that Percasi did not prepare the teams for
the Olympics, Antara reported on Sunday. (arf)

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