1ST ASIAN GRANDMASTERS CIRCUIT- 3RD ROUND RESULTS ~-~AY~R s I & I 7 · .. 1 (PHIL) GM ½I½ 2 (ARG) A-sia·n _ ascendancy· 3 MERSHAD SHAR CHESS IN Indonesia is very were taken to a sports sta• popular, and not only at dium, one floor of which is AROUAH BACTIAR (IND) IM international levels. Indonesia · permanently reserved for 6 LUIS CHIONG (PHIL) has an advantage over other chess. There, were 400-500 . 7 O'KELLY DE GALWAY (BEL) GM countries because the game is people present, but also at 8 CRAIG LAIRD (NZ) indigenous to the people and least- as many cheering 9 KAMRAN SHIRAZ! (IRAN) has not been artificially "in-: school pupils outsiqe_ which traduced": · gave the . place q1}1te an 10 MURRAY CHANDLER (NZ)/. atmosphere. 11 ARDIANSYAH (IND) /M That was strikingly illus• trated during the third leg of After the ceremony a band· 12 JACOBUS SAMPOUW (IND) the 1st Asian 's · struck - up while snacks and 13 CHRISTIE HON (MALAYSIA) Circuit when all the partici-: drinks were handed out. 14 HERMAN SURADIRADJA(IND) /, pants were invited to attend a Then, amid further cheering prizegiving of the teams and whistling, the reluctant IM NORM =8½ GM NORM=10 CATEGORY 5 championship in Jakarta. We participants _from the circuit.

were called on stage to be in• 19. d4 c4 This timely advance puts 28. Nd5 good guys .. troduced, and Wt' were pre• 20. d5! Chiong in serious dif iculties. Planning to answer 28 . 33. Kh1 Ra? sented with pieces of the \;MIONG The way . Black plays now Ne5 with 29.Ne7 ch followed 34. RXf5 axe? Traditional Indonesian batik White gets a passed d-pawn, by 30.Qd4. - Taking anything with either cloth. but the alternative of capturing 28. . . . Bc6 rook gets Black mated in one. During the grandmaster on d5 is unappetising owing to 29. h5 QXd6 30. Rbd1 Ne5 ._ 35. RXf8 ch QXf8 tournament at the hotel Kar• Black's hanging pawn on d6. ! 36. QXe5 ch Kg8 tika Chandra, 'crowds again Or Chiong can choose 20. e5 30. . . . QXd5 31.QX.d5 Black has no moves; on 36 turned up to watch, often 21. fXe5 8Xe5 BXd5 32. RXd5 Nj7 33. . . . . Rg7 . 37.h6 wins the erupting into applause after a 22. 8Xa7 Ra8 RXb5 with a big advantage for rook, and if the queen blocks good game. They also showed 23. Bd4 RXa2 White. · . on g7 then 37.Rd8 ch is finis. their appreciation of Filipino 24. Nb4 Ra4 As it stands 'Moscarinas picks · Rico Mascarinas who gained · 25. 8Xe5 dXe5 31. Qg5 ch Kh8 26. d6 32. Ne? Qc5 ch up a bishop. . his second norm during the 37. Qe6 ch Resigns event, and qualified for the Winning and winning . If 32 ..... Qf6 33.RXf5! 26. Ng6 and again the forthcoming title of international master MURRAY CHANDLER of FIDE. For Mascarinas it 27. h4! e4 endgame is winning for the was a sweet reward for his ef• forts on the circuit this year., In Baguio he missed out only through an unlucky penulti• mate ·round loss to grand• master Rosando Balinas; in New Zealand at the Bur• roughs GM, he was the high- . est placed untitled player, but still missed out. It was only in Jakarta, where he had also gained his first norm in, 1976, (hat he played with unmis• takable consistency and he never looked like missing out. In- the end he scored 9 points, half more· than the required ,8½. 1st Asian GM Circuit Indonesia 1978 R. Ma11carina11 L. Chiong (Phillippines) (Philippines) 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. g3 Mascarinas is playing the closed variation - a shrewd decision ·versus Luis Chiong who is a sharp, tactical player.. 3. 96 4. 892 897 5. Nge2 e6 6. d3 Nge7 7. 0-0. 0-0 8. Be3 Nd4 9. f4 d6 10. Qd2 Rb8 In Kopilov-Petrosian, USSR 1949, Black continued immedi• ately 10 .... f5 II.Rael Rb8 12.Ndl b5 J 3.c3 NXe2 /4.QXe2 b4 with equality, but IO ... Rb8 as Chiong plays cannot be bad. 11. Rab1 . Bd7 ·, Both sides play slightlv in• accurately; 11.Rael makes more sense for White, while Chiong in response to 11.Rabl could have begun his queenside counterplay immediately with ll ... b5. 12. Bf2 Nec6? Mascarinas's gamble on Chiong not understanding the opening pays off 12 . . . NXe2 ch is better, since White's previous move was de-• signed to capture on d4 with his knight. 13. NXd4 NXd4 14. Nd1 f5 15. c3 Nc6 16. Ne3 b5 White's position is very fine. His minor pieces are ideally posted · 10 discourage Black's queenside play, while with his next move' he threatens to ad• vance in the centre. 17. Nc2 Ne? 18. eXf5 gXf5