East vs. West: Battle Of The Rising Stars!

New York pizza or Indonesian nasi goreng? Let's decide on the chess board!

ChessKid and catur.id, an Indonesian site dedicated to sharing sharing chess-related events presents a battle for the ages!

On Saturday June 26th at 9am Eastern U.S./8pm Indonesia, Satria Duta, a talented chess player from Indonesia, will take on 12- year-old National Master Brewington Hardaway of New York in a six-game blitz match on ChessKid! This promises to be a dazzling display of strategy, tactics, and chess wizardry by two talented young men.

The match will also help support Unicef India in light of the recent COVID-19 crisis.

The beginning of the match will be on Chess.com/TV and the entire match will also be on Twitch.tv/ChessKid and Youtube.com/chesskidofficial. 

Hosting the match will be IM Irene Sukandar who gained considerable prominence when she faced off against Dadang Subur, known as Dewa Kipas online, and made history when over 1 million viewers tuned in to watch her compete in what is unofficially the largest live chess match in history. IM Sukandar is the first WGM from Indonesia, a five-time Olympian, and the fifth ranked player in her country of any gender.

Best of all, she's the new ChessKid ambassador to Indonesia and is busy translating and dubbing ChessKid into Bahasa!

 

IM Irene Sukandar, the ChessKid Indonesia Ambassador. Photo courtesy IM Eric Rosen.

Her co-host will be none other than YouTube star, IM Levy Rozman, who is also well known to the Indonesia chess community. He turned what could have been a negative incident into a productive and growth experience with his Indonesian fans.

Rozman just passed 1 million followers on Youtube to become one of the biggest online chess personalities in the world!

 

IM Levy Rozman aka "GothamChess".

13-year old Satria has been known to play offbeat openings like the Nimzo-Larsen Attack as white and the Chigorin Defense as black. 12-year old Brewington generally relies on battle tested e4 and d4 and Sicilian or Indian lines as black. The two contrasting styles should lead to some exciting chess!

Come watch what might be the most-viewed ChessKid event in history! The action kicks off Saturday, June 26 at 6:00am Pacific/9:00am Eastern/3:00pm CET/8:00pm Western Indonesia Time on Chess.com/TV or Twitch.tv/chesskid or Youtube.com/chesskidofficial.