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FM Awam Wahono lost to FM Anjas Novita in the ultimate round. This loss made the two players plus IM Nathanael Situru to have same VP, 8.5. Based on PS Wahono and Situru ranked first and second respectively. To decide the eventual winner Wahono and Situru played playoff of two 5-minute blitz games which was won by Wahono.

Irene Sukandar marked her era in Indonesian women chess by winning the event in convincing fashion. This was her first national champion title. Many pundits predicted that her reign as Indonesian Chess Queen would be untouchable for many years to come since she was only fourteen years old at that time.

18 years old Susanto Megaranto took home the cup with 12 VP, one and half points ahead his seniors Nasib Ginting and Awam Wahono. Arif Yanuar became the winner of the shortest game. His opponent got disqualified before even moved the pieces because his cell phone rang.

Alexander Alekhine played Prof Willem Wertheim in an unknown event at Surabaya. At that time Alekhine was world champion while Wertheim was amongst the best players in Netherlands Indies (now Indonesia). Alekhine won rather easily. Wertheim lost his queen at move 29 but he still refused to resign until 8 moves later.

Edhi Handoko rekindled the memory of 1978 National Championship when he won the event as a teenager. New kid in town Nasib Ginting caught everyone off guard by taking runner up position only half points shy from Handoko. Amongst his victims are Ardiansyah and Ronny Gunawan.