Salor leads selection for European tour team

Salor leads selection for European tour team

JAKARTA (JP): International Master Salor Sitanggang has taken the lead in the selection tournament for the Bali Jeff Indonesia team for its European tour starting next month.

Salor's score is 2.5 Victory Points following his victory against Ruby Tamono in the third round of the competition Wednesday.

Salor defeated Ruby on the 75th move after the Peti opening.

Fide Master Hamdani Rudin, IM Nasib Ginting and IM Ivan Situru are all on 2 VPs following victories against their most recent opponents.

Hamdani won against IM Dede Liu on the 48th move after a King's Indian opening, while Nasib beat National Master Erwin Yulianto on the 67th move and Ivan ousted NM Novian Siregar in 43 moves.

The fourth round will be held today where Salor will meet Hamdani, Nasib plays against Dede and Ivan meets Erwin.

The Bali Jeff Indonesia tournament features 12 players. The best two will be chosen for the team. They will tour a number of European countries for three months together with the other three players already chosen for the tour starting January next year.

The three other players are Grandmasters Utut Adianto, Ruben Gunawan and Edhie Handoko.

It was expected that from the three-month tour, Utut, Ruben and Edhie's elo ratings will increase. For the two other players, it is hoped that they could move to higher positions, and hopefully become grandmasters. (lnt)