Edhi Handoko

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Edhi Handoko (born August 28, 1960 in Surakarta , † February 17, 2009 in Bogor ) was an Indonesian chess player .

He won the Indonesian individual championship four times: 1978 (in Jakarta ), 1979/80 (in Jakarta), 1984 (in Jakarta) and 1991 (in Ujung Padang ). He played for Indonesia in eight Chess Olympiads : 1980 , 1982 , 1984 , 1986 , 1988 , 1992 , 1994 and 2000 with a total of 53 points from 94 games (+34 = 38 −22). At his first Chess Olympiad in Valletta in 1980 , he played on the top board. For Indonesia he also played in six Asian team championships: 1979, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993 and 1995. Here he played in 1979 and 1995, both in Singapore , on the first board. In February 1993 he won a category 10 tournament in Jakarta . In club chess , he won the MEREDKA team event in Kuala Lumpur in 1997, playing on the first board of the Bali Jeff Chess Club .

In 1983 he received the title of International Master . Until 1986 he was the strongest chess player in Indonesia. In 1994 he became the fourth chess grandmaster in his country, and in 2007 the World Chess Federation FIDE awarded him the title of FIDE Trainer . His last rating was 2429 and his highest rating was 2520 in July 1993. He died of a heart attack combined with pneumonia , leaving behind a wife and two sons.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of Indonesian championships 1953 to 2015 ( Memento from July 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on indonesiabase.com (English)
  2. ↑ Edhi Handoko's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Edhi Handoko's results at the Asian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ^ Obituary in the Jakarta Globe of February 17, 2009 ( Memento of February 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  5. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 82
  6. ↑ Edhi Handokos trainer card on fide.com ( Memento from December 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
personal data
SURNAME Handoko, Edhi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indonesian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Surakarta
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 2009
Place of death Bogor