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During 2000-2006 Denny Juswanto had been reaching the peak of his chess career. He practically won the tournament after edging out his nearest contender Susanto Megaranto in round 9th. Along with Japfa Open, Telkom Open is an open chess tournament with the highest prize and number of participants in Indonesia.

The newly wed Judit Polgar wrapped the tournament neatly to give herself a memorable present and another pinnacle in her career. The event produced one strange game when Ruben Gunawan agreed to draw in much better position against his fellow Indonesian Utut Adianto Wahyuwidayat.

Many talented young players participated in this U20 event. Some of them soon developed to be the best in their respective age groups. Surya Wahyudi became U20 national champion. Kaisar Hakiki also held U18 national champion title. Urbanus Gokok and Aris Hariyanto had the same titles under their belts. The event was won by Sandy Kurniawan.

Edhi Handoko successfully defended his National Champion title from two years ago but it was not easy by all means. He had to suffer defeats in the hands of Iskandar Arif and Ronny Gunawan. This event also served as selection of Indonesian team’s members for Chess Olympiad 1980 at Malta.

This is a rather unique event with two engines amongst 16 participants, Fritz 6 by the duo programmer Frans Mörsch and Mathias Feist, and Rebel by Ed Schröder. Nathanael Situru won the event. Situru started with loss to Fritz 6 but he recovered immediately winning all the rest of games.