Irine Kharisma Sukandar

Irine Kharisma Sukandar

Irine Kharisma Sukandar at the Asian Indoor Games in July 2013
Country Indonesia
Born (1992-04-07) 7 April 1992
Jakarta, Indonesia
Title International Master (2014)
Woman Grandmaster (2009)
FIDE rating 2427 (April 2016)
Peak rating 2427 (May 2015)

Irine Kharisma Sukandar (born 7 April 1992 in Jakarta) is an Indonesian chess player and twice Asian women's champion. She is Indonesia's first player to achieve the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and the first female one to receive the International Master (IM) title.

Career

Sukandar won the Indonesian Women's Chess Championship four times in a row from 2006 to 2010. She has represented Indonesia in five Women's Chess Olympiads, in 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2014. Her best result was at the 36th Chess Olympiad in Calviá 2004, where she scored 10/12 and won the silver medal on board 3.[1]

Sukandar was joint winner, with Vietnamese player Pham Bich Ngoc, of the under 16 girls' section of the 6th ASEAN Age Group Chess Championships in Pattaya, Thailand in June 2005.[2] Later that year came third in the Jababeka Women's International tournament, behind Jana Krivec and Nana Alexandria.[3] In the 2006 ASEAN Age Group Championships, which took place in Jakarta, Sukandar finished clear first in the under 18 girls' division.[4]

In June 2007, she tied for second place, with Jana Krivec, in the Jakarta EWS Cup, behind Regina Pokorna.[5]

Sukandar jointly won the 10th Rector Cup women's event in Kharkiv, Ukraine in March 2008.[6] The following month she came third in the 2008 Japfa Chess Festival WGM event in Jakarta, behind Li Ruofan and Regina Pokorna.[7]

In July 2010, Sukandar scored 7/9 and came equal first in the Brunei Invitational IM Tournament, earning an International Master (IM) norm result.[8]

She won the 2012 Asian Women's Chess Championship in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and has thus qualified to play in the Women's World Chess Championship 2015.[9][10][11]

In May 2013, Sukandar won the 5th Alexander The Great Open, in Halkidiki, Greece ahead of Turkish IM Mert Erdoğdu.[12] In December 2013 she won two individual gold medals, for Rapid and Blitz chess, at the 2013 Southeast Asian Games held in Naypyidaw, Myanmar.[13]

In 2014, Sukandar won for the second time the Asian Women's Chess Championship, which was held that year in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.[14]

She won the G section (a female students' ten-player round-robin tournament) of the 2015 Moscow Open with a score of 7.5/9, two points ahead of the runner-up, Alina Kashlinskaya.[15]

References

  1. ↑ Women's Ches Olympiads: Irine Kharisma Sukandar. OlimpBase.
  2. ↑ 6th ASEAN Age-Group Chess Championships. Vietnamchess.
  3. ↑ Jababeka Women International FIDE Tournament Report
  4. ↑ 7th ASEAN Age Group Chess Championships. Vietnamchess.
  5. ↑ Anastasiya Karlovich. "Electric Woman Stars Brainy Beauties". ChessBase.
  6. ↑ Anastasiya Karlovich. "Kharkiv: Rebellion of the Youngsters". ChessBase.
  7. ↑ Japfa Chess Festival 2008 - WGM Section FIDE Tournament Report
  8. ↑ Brunei Invitational IM Tournament. Chessdom.
  9. ↑ 11th Asian Women's Chess Championships FIDE Tournament Report
  10. ↑ Indonesian wins Asian chess tournament. The Jakarta Post. 2012-05-13
  11. ↑ Irene to make history after Asian victory The Jakarta Post. 2012-05-16
  12. ↑ Irene Kharisma Sukandar wins Alexander The Great Open. FIDE.
  13. ↑ The 27th SEA Games - Results. FIDE.
  14. ↑ Sagar Shah. "Irine Sukandar Asian Women's Champion". ChessBase.
  15. ↑ Albert Silver. "Moscow Open won by Inarkiev and Tingjie". ChessBase.

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