Arovah Bachtiar

From the early 1950s to the second half of the 1970s, Arovah Bachtiar was one of Indonesia's leading chess players. He four time won the Indonesian Chess Championship: in 1953, 1962, 1967, and 1971. In September 1963, Arovah Bachtiar participated in World Chess Championship South-East Asian Zonal Tournament in Jakarta, where shared 1st–2nd place with Béla Berger but lost the additional match.[2] Arovah Bachtiar participated twice more in World Chess Championship Zonal Tournaments (1972, 1975) but no longer repeated this success.[3]

Arovah Bachtiar played for Indonesia in the Chess Olympiads:[4]

• In 1960, at second board in the 14th Chess Olympiad in Leipzig (+12, =2, -6),
• In 1966, at first board in the 17th Chess Olympiad in Havana (+3, =8, -7),
• In 1970, at fourth board in the 19th Chess Olympiad in Siegen (+10, =6, -2),
• In 1972, at third board in the 20th Chess Olympiad in Skopje (+5, =4, -8),
• In 1978, at third board in the 23rd Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires (+3, =4, -1).

Arovah Bachtiar played for Indonesia in the Men's Asian Team Chess Championships:[5]

• In 1974, at first board in the 1st Asian Team Chess Championship in Penang (+3, =2, -1) and won team and individual bronze medals,
• In 1979, at reserve board in the 3rd Asian Team Chess Championship in Singapore (+3, =1, -0) and won team bronze and individual gold medals.

In 1978, Arovah Bachtiar awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title.

• Arovah Bachtiar player profile and games at Chessgames.com
• Arovah Bachtiar chess games at 365Chess.com