From Barbies to Chess Pieces
Medina Warda Aulia spends more time in online chess trainings due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Medina, who is Indonesia’s youngest Woman Grandmaster, has been playing chess since she was nine years old.
Gabriel Wahyu Titiyoga
July 14, 2020
MEDINA Warda Aulia remains committed to her chess training amid the Covid-19 pandemic that has been sweeping across Indonesia since March. The 22-year-old chess player now spends more time devising chess strategies through computer at her house in Bekasi, West Java. She attends online practice matches because the government’s social restrictions prevent her from directly seeing other chess players. “My coach from Russia cancelled his
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