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Gara leads Medina 3-2 in women's chess match
Ticia Gara of Hungary took a 3-2 lead over Indonesiaâs young chess star, Medina Warda Aulia, after winning the fifth round in the Womenâs Chess Match at the Japfa Chess Festival on Thursday
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icia Gara of Hungary took a 3-2 lead over Indonesia's young chess star, Medina Warda Aulia, after winning the fifth round in the Women's Chess Match at the Japfa Chess Festival on Thursday.
Gara will need half a pawn from the last of their six-round match on Friday, but the 29-year-old grandmaster refused to be drawn into a safe-match plan.
'I can't say anything about it yet. Let's see the position,' she told The Jakarta Post after their match, which lasted 53 moves in a Sicilian game.
Like in previous matches, the two players battled it out and the visiting opponent built a better position in the endgame.
'I improved my position and had better endgame. I was two pawns up, which made it easy for me to bring it round to my victory,' Gara said.
Medina looked disappointed with the result, blaming her loss on her poor decision in a string of moves.
'It was on move 10, 22 and 27,' she pointed out how she had made weak moves.
She said she would try to win the last game to level the score.
Her fellow teammate, Chelsie Monica Sihite, who is playing in the Open category, continued her winning form by defeating Arif Abdul Hafiz in the seventh round.
Chelsie now has 5.5 points to share third position with other ten players. Anjas Novita and Kasmiran are tied at the top of the standings at 6.5 points while five players, including Indonesia's number one Susanto Megaranto, share second place with 6 points.
In the grandmaster tournament, which features five foreign and five domestic players, GM Sergey Tiviakov of the Netherlands is half a point clear at the top of the standings.
He overcame Farid Firmansyah in the eighth round to amass 6.5 points. He is followed by Nguyen Huynh Minh Huy of Vietnam with 6 points and GM Suat Atalik of Turkey in third with 5 points.
Despite the loss, Farid, who is a member of the national team of Chess Olympiad in Norway in August, has proved to be the best among local players.
He has collected 4.5 points compared to Tirta Chandra Purnama (4), Danny Juswanto (3.5), Muhammad Luthfi Ali (3) and Cerdas Barus (2).
