A New Pearl of Indonesian Chess
The national anthem “Indonesia Raya” reverberated in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, when Samantha Edithso, 10, stood at the top of the podium of the World Cadet Chess Championship on Friday, mid-November.
Samantha Edithso, 10, accompanied by Kristianus Liem, head of the performance development section of the Indonesian Chess Association (Percasi), shows her medal and cup after winning the U-10 2018 World Cadet Chess Championship in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on Friday (16/11/2018). Samantha is the second Indonesian chess player to win a world chess champion title in the cadet category. In 1989, Irwin Irnandi was world chess champion in the U-10 open category.
The national anthem “Indonesia Raya” reverberated in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, when Samantha Edithso, 10, stood at the top of the podium of the World Cadet Chess Championship on Friday, mid-November. On that Friday (16/11/2018), the six-grader made the international chess community look at Indonesia again.
Samantha won the world chess champion in the U-10 women’s category. After 29 years, the world chess title for any level has once again gone to an Indonesian player.