Edhi Handoko

Edhi Handoko ( born August 28, 1960 in Surakarta, † February 17, 2009 in Bogor ) was an Indonesian chess player.

The Indonesian Individual Championship he was four times win. , 1978, 1980 ( Jakarta ), 1984 ( Jakarta ) in 1991 He played for Indonesia in eight chess Olympiads: 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1992, 1994 and 2000 with a total score of 53 points from 94 games ( 34, = 38, -22 ). In his first Chess Olympiad, 1980 in Valletta, he played on top board. For Indonesia, he also played in five Asian Team Championships. 1979, 1987, 1991, 1993 and 1995, where he played in 1979 and 1995, each in Singapore, on the first board. In February 1993, he won a tournament in Jakarta in the category 10 chess club, he won in 1997, on board one of Bali Jeff Chess clubs playing the MEREDKA team event in Kuala Lumpur.

Until 1986 he was the strongest chess player in Indonesia. In 1994, he became the fourth chess grandmaster of his country, in 2007 awarded him the World Chess Federation FIDE the title of FIDE Trainer. His last Elo rating was 2429, its highest in 2520 in July 1993. He died of a heart attack in combination with pneumonia and leaves a wife and two sons.