Regent of Kolaka Open Chess Tournament

Regent Kolaka, H Buhari Matta (BM) opens a chess tournament Sultra followed by 12 district and city. Each District / City of participants sent five members of the participant.

Kolaka himself as host, followed by 10 participants.
On this occasion, also attended Kadis Estates, Kasim Madaria, Kadis Dikmudora Sofian Rindi, Chairman of the DPC Hanura Sukma Kutana and Secretary of KONI, Percasi Kolaka and all the participants and other invitees.

Chairman of the Committee, Andi Rijam, which was confirmed in the building KONI Kolaka Upeks yesterday, said the activity was carried out by NGOs in cooperation with Percasi Gaki, PPAK and PPHK with the grand prize amounting to Rp2, 5 million.
Chairman Percasi Kolaka, Kasim Madaria, explains, this tournament as a motivation to compete at the national level. "We hope there is a national cadre of master emerged from Kolaka," said Kasim.
Kasim also hope that this tournament has always been to uphold sportsmanship event in our sport. "We also hope that the sport of chess can be presenting any name Kolaka national level," he hoped.
Meanwhile, the Regent Kolaka, Matta H Buhari in his direction, revealing the sport of chess is a sport that requires intelligence. "Chess is a sport that requires balance of the brain," Buhari said. He said chess is expected to have sustainable development. Recognition of achievements in the field of chess Sultra still very low. "For this Kolaka chess players should have a target to the front, and it needs to be determined continuously in a professional manner," Buhari said.

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JAPFA Chess Festival 2012

Indonesia Minister of Youth and Sports Andi Mallarangeng assess regeneration chess Indonesia runs great athletes after seeing the enthusiasm of the participants who follow the chess championship 7th JAPFA Chess Festival 2012. He was also impressed by the coaching done Percasi PB. "Excellent, lots of small children who participated. This suggests that the regeneration of chess we are very good indeed," said Andi Mallarangeng Affairs after the opening JAPFA Chess Festival 2012 in Jakarta, Monday (16/4).

The championship was attended by 500 participants from all over Indonesia who will compete in a number less than 10 years junior to veteran number (followed by the participants over the age of 55 years). "Other sports Branch should be able to follow Percasi steps taken to foster youth," said Andi.

According Affairs, the future of Indonesia come from sports coaching, especially coaching for young people. "All the sports in the future of our children. If necessary, accompany them and give good nutrition," says Affairs.

On the same occasion, Vice Chairman of GM Utut Adianto PB Percasi come to appreciate JAPFA Chess Festival as the talent show and a pilot for the chess Indonesia. "This festival is an event of great trial for my friends in the area. Hopefully with this many powerful chess player born who will defend the national arena," said Utut Adiyanto.

The championship also presents a number of international women's tournament, followed by three national chess player, Medina Warda Aulia WFM, WIM Sihite Chelsea Monica, and Jelsen Yemi, who against three international chess, WGM Gutsko Anastasia (Ukraine), Burtasova WGM Anna (Russia), and Doluhanova WGM Evgeniya (Armenia). "Medina has played twice. We hope he will be six points from eight rounds remaining," said Utut.

Number of international women's tournament has been running for two rounds. For a while WGM Gutsko Anastasia leads the points standings with two points after a win of Jelsen Burtasova Yemi and Anna, while chess player WFM Medina Warda Aulia Indonesia was close behind in second place with 1.5 points.

Medina, who was 14 years old, had pocketed the norm GMW (grand master for Women). He can be reached if the norm GMW both able to collect 7.5 points victory in the tournament.

JAPFA 7th championship chess Chess Festival 2012 held by PB Percasi cooperation with Indonesia Tbk PT JAPFA Comfeed Multipurpose Building in Senayan, Jakarta, 16-20 April.

Menpora hopes of three female chess players competing mainstay of Indonesia that could be closer to the title of grand master of this championship.

Commissioner Indonesia Tbk PT JAPFA Comfeed Syamsir Siregar said the championship was a JAPFA commitment in support of our sport in Indonesia. "It's been 12 years JAPFA support our sport in Indonesia. It is an honor for us to remain consistent in supporting the Indonesia arena," said Syamsir Siregar.

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Judit Polgár

Judit Polgár (born July 23, 1976) is a Hungarian chess player. Easily the strongest female chessplayer in history, she was ranked number fourteen in the world in the January 2006 FIDE rating list with an ELO rating of 2711, the only woman on FIDE's Top 100 Players list. She achieved the title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1991 at the age of 15 years and 4 months, beating the previous record for youngest Grandmaster, set by Robert James "Bobby" Fischer in 1958.
Judit Polgár comes from a Jewish family background in Budapest, Hungary. (A number of her family members were killed in the Holocaust, and her grandmother was a survivor of Auschwitz). She and her two older sisters (Zsuzsa (GM) and Zsófia (IM)) were part of an educational experiment carried out by their father László Polgár, in an attempt to prove that children could make exceptional achievements if trained in a specialist subject from a very early age. "Geniuses are made, not born," was László's thesis. László and his wife Klara educated their three daughters at home, with chess as the specialist subject.

The rest of Judit's family eventually emigrated (Zsófia and her parents to Israel, Zsuzsa to New York), but Judit remained in Hungary and married Gustav Fonts, a veterinary surgeon from Budapest.

Judit Polgár is considered the strongest female chessplayer of all time. Trained in her early years by her sister Zsuzsa (who ultimately became Women's World Champion herself, and is still the second strongest female player in the world), Judit has always preferred men's events, making it clear from the beginning that she wants to become the true World Champion of Chess. Polgár has defeated almost all the world's top players, including former world champion Garry Kasparov, considered by many to be the strongest chessplayer of all time.

On the April 2003 FIDE ratings list, Judit Polgár 2715 rating made her the number 10 ranked player in the world, the first woman ever to enter the world's Top Ten. That same year, Judit scored her greatest victory: an undefeated clear 2nd place in the Category 19 Corus chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, just a half-point behind Indian star Viswanathan Anand, and a full point ahead of world champion Vladimir Kramnik.

In 2004, Polgár took some time off from chess to give birth to her son, Olivér. She was consequently considered inactive and not listed on the January 2005 FIDE rating list. Her sister Zsuzsa, now known as Susan, reactivated her playing status during this period and temporarily became ranked the world's number one woman player again.

Judit Polgár returned to chess at the prestigious Corus chess tournament on January 15, 2005, scoring 7/13. She was therefore relisted in the April 2005 FIDE rating list, gaining a few rating points for her better-than-par performance at Corus. In May she also had a better-than-par performance at a strong tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria, finishing third. She also gained points in the July 2005 FIDE rating list. This enabled her to retain her spot as the 8th ranked player in the world.

In September 2005, Polgár became the first woman to play for the World Chess Championship title, see FIDE World Chess Championship 2005.

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Viswanathan Anand

Viswanathan Anand (pronounced Vis'wah'nəh'thən Ah'nənd) (born December 11, 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster. In the January 2006 FIDE Elo rating list, Anand has a rating of 2792, making him the number three in the world (after the retired Garry Kasparov and Veselin Topalov). Anand has been one of the strongest non-Soviet players since Bobby Fischer, along with the Hungarian Péter Lékó and the Bulgarian Topalov.

Anand's rise in the Indian chess world was meteoric. National level success came early for him when he won the National Sub-Junior Chess Championship with a score of 9/9 in 1983 at the age of fourteen. He became the youngest Indian to win the International Master's Title at the age of fifteen, in 1984. In 1987, he became the first Indian to win the World Junior Chess Championship. "Vishy", as he is sometimes called, burst upon the upper echelons of the chess scene in the early 1990s, winning such tournaments as Reggio Emilia 1991 (ahead of Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov). Playing at such a high level did not slow him down either, and he continued to play games at blitz speed. In 1991, he lost in a tie-breaker to Anatoly Karpov in the quarter finals of the FIDE Knockout World Chess Championship.

Viswanathan Anand qualified for the Professional Chess Association World Chess Championship final by winning the candidates matches against Michael Adams and Gata Kamsky. In 1995, he played a title match against Kasparov in New York City's World Trade Center. After an opening run of eight draws (a record for the opening of a world championship match), Anand won game nine using a splendid sacrifice on the queen side, but then lost four of the next five. He lost the match 10.5 - 7.5.

Anand won three consecutive Advanced Chess tournaments in Leon, Spain after Garry Kasparov introduced this form of chess in 1998, and is widely recognized as the world's best Advanced Chess player, where humans may consult a computer to aid in their calculation of variations.

Viswanathan Anand's recent tournament successes include the prestigious Corus chess tournament in years 2003 and 2004 and Dortmund in 2004. He has won the annually held Monaco Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess Championships in years 1994, 1997, 2003 and 2005.

Anand has won the Chess Oscar in 1997, 1998, 2003, and 2004. The Chess Oscar is awarded to the year's best player according to a world-wide poll of leading chess critics, writers, and journalists conducted by the Russian chess magazine 64.

Viswanathan Anand's game collection, My Best Games of Chess, was published in the year 1998 and was updated in 2001.

After several near misses, Anand finally won the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2000 after defeating Alexei Shirov 3.5 - 0.5 in the final match held at Teheran, thereby becoming the first Indian to win that title. He lost the title to Ruslan Ponomariov in 2002.

He became shared second in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 (together with Peter Svidler) with 8.5 points out of 14 games, lagging 1.5 points behind the winner, Veselin Topalov.

In October 2003, the governing body of chess, FIDE, organized a rapid time control tournament in Cap d'Agde and billed it as the World Rapid Chess Championship. Anand won this event ahead of ten of the other top twelve players in the world with Kasparov being the only missing player. Anand is still deservedly considered to be the world's finest Rapid Chess player.He has consistently won almost all rapid events defeating many top players and his main achievements in this Category are at : Corsica , Leon , Amber events where he dominated almost all elite players .

Chess titles
1983 National Sub-Junior Chess Champion - age 14
1984 International Master - age 15
1985 Indian National Champion - age 16
1987 World Junior Chess Champion, Grandmaster
2000 FIDE World Chess Champion
2003 FIDE World Rapid Chess Champion
Awards
Anand has received many awards.
Arjuna award for Outstanding Indian Sportsman in Chess in 1985
Padma Shri, National Citizens Award and Soviet Land Nehru Award in 1987
The inaugural Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, India's highest sporting honour in the year 1991-1992.
British Chess Federation 'Book of the Year' Award in 1998 for his book My Best Games of Chess
Chess Oscar (1997, 1998, 2003 and 2004)

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