The Kartika Chandra four-star Hotel which hosts the participants of the tournament and
will be used as a playing venue for Asian Cities Chess Championship (21-29 of April 2011)
Partcipants, officials and spectators on the opening ceremony
A special musical program, where the dancer symbolises the white pieces
Girls from the Indonesian Chess Federation sing and perform on the opening ceremony. The girls
learnt a special song which motivates players before the games, in a camp for athletes of Indonesia
Indonesian chess-players during the opening ceremony
The President of the Indonesian Chess Federation, Hashim Djojohadikusumo and
the Minister of Youth and Sport Andi Mallarangeng make the first symbolic moves
The officials watch an exhibition blitz game (three minutes time control) between Indonesian WFM Medina Warda Aulia and me. My opponent played better, but I played faster and won on time. The spectators seemed satisfied.
The playing venue
The highest rated Indonesian player, GM Megaranto Susanto, vs Andreas Susanto
Elo favourite GM Merab Gagunashvili from Georgia
Indonesian IM Denny Juswanto
GM Eugenio Torre from the Philippines
GM Cerdar Barus from Indonesia, who won his first five games, played in the
national team at the 2002 Olympiad in Bled, winning the gold medal on board three
Zhang Zhong, Chinese GM who lives in Singapore
Irina is a WGM and has a rating of 2354. She is the current Indonesian women's champion, a member of Indonesian women's team and the winner of the Asian Youth Championships. Beside of chess she also studies English literature at the University.
19-year-old chess star Irene Kharisma Sukandar
15-years-old WFM Chelsie Monica Ignesias Sihite from Indonesia is Asean champion U16 (2010)
and repeated champion of Indonesia in different age groups. She also enjoys taking photos.
Indonesian WFM Dewi Anastasia Ardhiani was a silver medallist
in the world school championship U-15 (Greece, 2009)
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