| Indonesia-France Women Match, Jakarta/Bekasi 2012 |
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| Indonesia-France Women Match Classical, Bekasi 2012 |
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| Indonesia-France Women Match Blitz, Jakarta 2012 |
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| Indonesia-France Women Match Rapid, Bekasi 2012 |
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2012.12.16-22. Team match. 2 teams 4 players each.
Jakarta. Blitz. Match 1 round.
Bekasi. Rapid. Scheveningen 4 rounds.
Bekasi. Classical. Scheveningen 4 rounds.
France mysteriously didn’t field their best players in the showdown between the two countries. Their best players IM Almira Skripchenko and IM Maria Sebag weren’t on the roster. Neither was their top scorer on the latest Olympiad, Istanbul 2012, IM Silvia Collas. France belonged to the élite in women chess. The country ranked as high as 7th on the Olympiad.Indonesia was not shy to have their best players in the team. The team was even stronger than that of 2012 Olympiad with WGM Irene Kharisma Sukandar now playing and kept the lower rated players, WFM Ummi Fisabilillah and WFM Aay Aisyah Anisah, at bay. Still France had an Elo rating advantage over Indonesia. The French players were averaging 2304 compared to Indonesian’s 2278.
France confirmed their favorite status by winning the blitz match, 3-1, on the first day. WIM Chelsie Monica Sihite saved the host from the clean sweep by scoring the only points against WIM Natacha Benmesbah. But the French delights ended up here. On the following days the Indonesian team stunned the French, 10-6 in the rapid match. The French team couldn’t do any better in the classical match. France succumbed to defeat by about the same margin, 6.5-9.5. Altogether Indonesia beat France 20.5-15.5.
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Indonesian team’s victory was largely attributed to the ‘Aulia’ factor. Sihite and WFM Dewi Citra performed ok as their ratings suggested but Sukandar was a little off. The performance of 15-year-old WIM Medina Warda Aulia was simply mind blowing. She scored 7.5 VP in 8 games of rapid and classical.
The French side was unlucky to have ‘passengers’ in the forms of WIM Mathilde Congiu, WGM Nino Maisuradze, and Natacha Benmesbah. The players hit the bottom alternately. Congiu couldn’t even score at all in the rapid match. IM Sophie Milliet played admirably but not enough to save her team from the devastating defeat.
Selected Games (viewer © ChessTempo)
  Nino Maisuradze 13601717  wg 2315 |   Medina Warda Aulia 7101570  wm 2313 |
Indonesia-France Women Match
Bekasi
2012.12.19 Round 1.20-1 D30 Queen’s Gambit Declined: Systems without Nc3
 Chelsie Monica Ignesias Sihite 7101198 wm 2277 |  Natacha Benmesbah 642002 wm 2273 |
Indonesia-France Women Match
Bekasi
2012.12.19 Round 1.31-0 B76 Sicilian Dragon: Yugoslav Attack 9.0-0-0
Sources
- 40th Olympiad Istanbul 2012 Women tournament
- File:Medina Warda Aulia 2012.jpg
- MAKITA Women Chess Match concluded – Indonesia defeats France
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