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Indonesian hopeful young player, a high school student Darmayanti D Tamin, failed to win the event. She had to satisfy with runner up position to the champion Imasniti with 1.5 points cushion. The failure didn’t stop Darmayanti winning Women National Championship 1980 at Salatiga two months later.

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 status as Indonesian Chess Queen would be untouchable for many years to come since she was only fourteen years old at that time.

Sopiko Guramishvili entered the event as runner up of Girl World Youth Chess Championship U12 2003 at Halkidiki, Greece. Sukandar placed herself at 6-9 in the same event. The gap of class between these two was arguably noticeable as Guramishvili showed her domination throughout.

This event was a battle between two young players, 13 years old Irene Sukandar and 15 years old Anya Corke. Despite the age difference Sukandar showed to Corke that she was more than worthy opponent. Corke levelled the score lines after a hard fought victory in the last round.

Jana Krivec and Nana Alexandria came out on top. Indonesia hopeful young talent Irene Kharisma Sukandar respectfully claimed third place. An experienced Sri Vidawati was supposed to be less than happy to find her self at tenth place out of 12 players. This was her last appearance in an international event to date.