Indonesian SEA Games Chess Team Selection - What We Can Learn

National Selection

Sebelum ini GiLoCatur pernah menulis (di sini) tentang SELEKNAS CATUR SEA Games ke 26 yang telah dianjurkan oleh Persatuan Catur Seluruh Indonesia atau lebih dikenali sebagai PERCASI. SELEKNAS yakni singkatan dari Seleksi Nasional atau dalam bahasa omputihnya, national selection, ini diadakan untuk memilih pemain-pemain catur yang akan mewakili Indonesia bagi acara catur di Sukan SEA yang bakal berlansung bulan November nanti di Palembang.

Top 11 bagi setiap kategori lelaki (PUTRA) dan perempuan (PUTRI) akan terpilih menjalani latihan dan saringan berikutnya bersama-sama GM Susanto Megaranto dan GM Irene Kharisma Sukandar yang telah layak secara otomatik.

It is very important that a proper national selection to be held to represent the country in an international event such SEA Games. If Indonesia which is ranked higher than Malaysia in the latest FIDE Country Ranking, 58th to 69th, and has 6 GMs + 12 IMs compared to Malaysian only 5 IMs uses and conducts the selection process, Malaysia MUST DO the same thing.

Who are making the list?

Siapa yang berjaya "lolos"? Atau dalam perkataan lain, siapa 11 pemain yang berjaya ke peringkat saringan seterusnya? Check out senarai-senarainya seperti di bawah.

Cuba perhatikan gambar-gambar mereka di atas. Yang lelakinya memakai baju merah sementara yang perempuannya memakai baju hitam. Setahu GiLoCatur, baju-baju tersebut diberi percuma. Dan setahu GiLoCatur lagi, transportation dan penginapan sewaktu kejohanan seleksi tersebut juga ditaja dan diberi percuma oleh pihak penganjur kepada kesemua 71 pemain yang telah terpilih.

Another interesting point is that the champion for the women category, Medina Warda Aulia who has about same age and equal strength with Nur Nabila Azman, managed to earn her WIM title from the tournament as per reported by wartaolahraga website. GiLoCatur believes the SELEKNAS tournament is FIDE-rated.

From GiLoCatur's humble observation, the chess prodigies of our neighbouring ASEAN countries keep progressing eventhough our own were and are better or at least equal during the early stage i.e. before 12 years old. Nabila and Medina is one example. Another example is Anas and Le Quang Liem of Vietnam. Anas was the champion while Liem was second in the 4th ASEAN Age Group in Brunei about 8 years ago. Since then Liem has progressed to become a Super GM. GiLoCatur is not sure who won during their encounter in that tournament. Encik Bakri has the answer for that.

The bottomline is why our chess prodigies have slow progress during their teenage and adult stages of life? Why they can not earn the grandmaster title? Or even worse why they are gone from the chess scene? Can we identify the root causes and reasons? Can't we do something?

Sementara pecatur DKI lainnya Medina juga tampil sebagai kampiun di nomor putri dengan meraih nilai tertinggi 8 ½ poin, mengangkangi 26 pecatur putri lainnya. Keberhasilan Medina meraih 8 ½ poin, membawanya meraih gelar WIM, di mana sebelum seleknas Medina menyandang gelar WFM

sumber : wartaolahraga website

Selection Criteria

The above is the selection criteria that is being used by PERCASI for the SELEKNAS. It is published in Catur Indonesia blog.

Deciding the Champion

The above is the tie breaks being used in deciding the champion. What GiLoCatur notices from the above info is that no playoff system used to decide the winner. Another thing that GiLoCatur notices about the selection tournament is that the number of rounds is 11; NOT 9 like we normally have in Malaysia.

Attire and Dress Code

GiLoCatur is very impressed not only proper and appropriate dress code and attire stressed and expected from the players as the following but also from the audience and viewers as well as the officials. It is very obvious also that the audience and viewers are allowed to enter the tournament hall.

Good Campaign and Media Coverage

It is no doubt, to promote chess to higher level, a very good campaign and media coverage is very crucial. The SELEKNAS tournament has excellent campaign and gets lots of coverage as proven below. GiLoCatur believes we can have the same since there are many local chess blogs in Malaysia. Just the hard part is the media coverage both paper and electronic. For sure, press release is where we need to improve. Good rapport with the media needs to be established and maintained.

sources :

http://caturindonesia.blogspot.com

http://olahraga.kompas.com/read/2011/01/24/21595956/Seleknas.Catur.SEA.Games.2011.Dimulai

http://www.wartaolahraga.co.cc/2011/01/tirta-dan-medina-terbaik-seleknas-catur.html

http://www.harianpelita.com/read/15136/3/metropolitan/medina-dan-tirta-lolos-seleknas-catur-seag/

http://www.rri.co.id/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=732:seleknas-catur-sea-games-2011&catid=50:kronika-olahraga&Itemid=242

http://www.tribunnews.com/mobile/index.php/2011/01/24/seleknas-catur-sea-games-diikuti-71-pecatur

Penganjuran SELEKNAS ini bukan perkara baru di Indonesia. Ia telah pun digunapakai dan dilaksanakan semenjak beberapa tahun yang lalu. GiLoCatur kurang pasti semenjak bila, tetapi setidak2nya semenjak tahun 2006 iaitu SELEKNAS Chess Olympiad yang ke 38 seperti yang dilaporkan di sini.

Satu lagi perkara yang GiLoCatur perasan tentang perkembangan catur di Indonesia ialah peranan GM Utut Adianto, GM pertama Indonesia kalau tidak silap, dalam melahirkan pemain2 catur Indonesia berwibawa. Seperti apa yang GiLoCatur tahu, kedua-dua GM Susanto dan WGM Irene adalah produk dari sekolah catur beliau. Begitu juga dengan Medina.

So, banyak yang kita komuniti catur Malaysia boleh pelajari dan apply dari info dan maklumat di atas. Semoga catur atau chess "bisa" berkembang lebih pesat dan maju di Malaysia khususnya dan di ASEAN amnya.

APA BISA KE ENGGAK PAK? he he he ...

[GiLoCatur : salah satu entry yang paling lama ditulis ... hu hu hu .... harap tiada kesilapan fakta]