Irine Kharisma Sukandar

Irene Kharisma Sukandar was born in Jakarta in 1992. She earned individual silver on board three at the 2004 Women's Olympiad while still twelve. Her youth successes included ASEAN girls' titles at under-sixteen in 2005 and under-eighteen in 2006. She became Indonesia's first woman grandmaster, with FIDE recording the title in 2009. In 2012 she won the Asian Women's Championship, qualifying for the women's world-championship knockout. She won two individual gold medals, in rapid and blitz, at the 2013 Southeast Asian Games. A second Asian women's title followed in 2014. That year she also became the first Indonesian woman to hold the international master title. She won the female students' section of the 2015 Moscow Open by two points. Her later tournament victories included the 2016 North Carolina Open with a perfect score and the 2018 Hjorth Open. In 2022 she earned a grandmaster norm at the Abu Dhabi festival. Away from competition, she graduated from Gunadarma University.