Cerdas Barus (born 1 January 1961 in

Karo Karo may refer to: Ethnic groups * Karo people (East Africa), a group of tribes in East Africa * Karo people (Ethiopia), an ethnic group from Ethiopia * Karo people (Indonesia), the indigenous people of the Karo Plateau in North Sumatra Language ...

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) is an Indonesian deaf chess grandmaster (2004). He has won the Indonesian Chess Championship three times. In 2002, he came second at

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. In 2011 he won the Telin Chess International Tournament in Jakarta. In December 2015 he participated at the ''

Penang Penang ( ms, Pulau Pinang, is a Malaysian state located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia, by the Malacca Strait. It has two parts: Penang Island, where the capital city, George Town, is located, and Seberang Perai on the Ma ...

Open'' tournament in

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with 119 players; he became shared 11th with 6 points out of 9 rounds. He played for Indonesia in the

Chess Olympiad The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad in 2020 and ...

s of 1984, 1988, 1990, 1994, 1996,

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

and

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains independence from Indonesia and ...

(individual gold medal at third board).

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* * 1961 births Living people Chess Grandmasters Chess Olympiad competitors Indonesian chess players People of Batak descent 20th-century Indonesian people 21st-century Indonesian people People from Karo Regency {{Indonesia-chess-bio-stub Indonesian deaf people Deaf sportspeople