Ruben wins selection tourney

Ruben wins selection tourney

JAKARTA (JP): Grand Master (GM) Ruben Gunawan won the 34th
Chess Olympic Games national selection tournament here on
Thursday after defeating International Master (IM) Danny Juswanto
in sudden death.

Danny, who lost to Ruben on Wednesday in the first match of
the final, won the second match of the final in the 44th move to
force a play-off. In the ensuing 25-minute rapid chess matches,
Danny won the first match and Ruben was victorious in the second.

This forced the players into sudden death, where the person
playing the white pieces gets five minutes to plan his moves,
while the person playing black is given four minutes to respond.
If the match ends in a draw, the person playing the black pieces
is declared the winner.

Danny played the black pieces during the sudden-death match
and only needed a tie to bring home the Rp 1.5 million (US$175)
championship prize. But Ruben triumphed and took home the title.

Both players, along with GM Edhi Handoko and FIDE Master
Hamdani Rudin, will join GM Utut Adianto and IM Cerdas Barus at
the Chess Olympic Games in Istanbul from Oct. 28 to Nov. 14.
(ivy)