SATRIA Duta Cahaya emerged as the winner of the rapid chess category at the 2024 Japfa Chess Festival held at the Senayan Multipurpose Building, Jakarta, Thursday (22/8). The chess player from DKI Jakarta, the FM title holder, finished at the top of the standings with full points.
In the seven-round competition, Satria Duta won seven points in first place. In the final round he won 1-0 over West Java chess player, M Ariel.
“I’m happy to finish with full points and first place. It was quite tight because until the sixth round there were three people with full points,” said Satria Duta.
“If I don’t win, my position could be thrown away. I just play calmly and attack well,” added the 16-year-old chess player.
For Satria Duta, the victory is a warm-up for the 2024 Chess Olympiad which will be held in Budapest, Hungary, next September.
“I will play in the Olympics, Budapest. I hope I can do my best,” he said.
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The second position in the rapid chess category with 6.5 points was occupied by IM Theolifus Taher Yoseph who the day before became the open category champion. The third position was occupied by NM Sugeng Prasetyo.
In addition to playing offline fast chess matches attended by around 520 chess players from 21 provinces, the 2024 Japfa Chess Festival also held an international online match between young Indonesian chess player GMW Ivana Maria T Lasama who met WIM Janelle Mae Frayna from the Philippines.
The match played three rounds of rapid chess and two rounds of blitz chess. Both were temporarily tied at 2.5-2.5 vp. The international duel provided a prize of US$ 1,000 dollars. (Z-6)
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