Utut Adianto

Utut Adianto
Election portrait, 2023
Deputy Speaker of the People's Representative Council
In office 20 March 2018 – 1 October 2019 Serving with Fadli Zon, Agus Hermanto, Taufik Kurniawan, Fahri Hamzah
Speaker	Bambang Soesatyo
Member of the People's Representative Council
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 October 2009
Constituency	Central Java VII
Majority	89,902 (2019)
Personal details
Born	Utut Adianto Wahyuwidayat (1965-03-16) 16 March 1965 Jakarta, Indonesia
Political party	PDI-P
Spouse	Tri Hatmanti
Alma mater	Padjadjaran University
Occupation	Chess player
Chess biography
Country	Indonesia
Title	Grandmaster (1985)
Years active	1980–2016
FIDE rating	2566 (December 2024)
Peak rating	2615 (January 1997)
Peak ranking	No. 49 (January 1997)

Utut Adianto Wahyuwidayat (born 16 March 1965), commonly known as Utut Adianto is an Indonesian politician and chess player, who is serving as a member of the People's Representative Council since 2009. A member of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, he served as Deputy Speaker of the People's Representative Council from 2018 until 2019. Prior to his entry in politics, he was a chess player, attaining the title of Grandmaster from FIDE in 1986.

Early life and education

Utut Adianto Wahyuwidayat was born in Jakarta on 16 March 1965. He is the fourth child of five children. He spent his childhood in Damai alley, near Cipete Market, South Jakarta. Utut studied at Padjadjaran University. He finished his studies in 1989, and worked in a in development company.

Chess career

He was first interested in chess through his brother. In 1973, when he was 8 years old, he took lessons at the Kencana Chess Club. He won the Jakarta Junior Championship in 1978, at the age of 12. He then won the National Junior Champion in 1979. He would go on to win the Indonesian Chess Championship in 1982. He was awarded the title Grandmaster in 1986, becoming the youngest Indonesian to do so at the time (at 21 years old), though that record has since been surpassed by Susanto Megaranto, who became grandmaster at the age of 17. Between 1995 and 1999, he maintained an Elo rating of over 2600.

In 1999, he participated in the FIDE world championship in Las Vegas, held with the knockout format, losing to Daniel Fridman in the first round. Utut Adianto is chairman of the Indonesian Chess Federation (PERCASI), together with Machnan R. Kamaluddin, Eka Putra Wirya and Kristianus Liem, he later founded a chess school in Indonesia, which has produced several national players. In 2005, Adianto was awarded the title of FIDE Senior Trainer.

Notable games

Utut and Iván Morovic, Junior Chess World Championship 1980 at Dortmund

The following is a list of notable games of Utut.

Notable games

#	Date	Opponent	Result
1	2013	Lang vs Adianto	0	1
2	1998	Handoko vs Adianto	0	1
3	1997	Karpov vs Adianto	0	1
4	1996	Hodgson vs Adianto	0	1
5	1993	Baburin vs Adianto	0	1
6	1988	Westerinen vs Adianto	0	1
7	1986	G. Pieterse vs Adianto	0	1
Source :

FIDE ratings

Elo development

Political career

In recent years, Adianto had to cut down on his chess activities as he has been proactively involved in politics and government activities. On 9 May 2009, he was elected to the People's Representative Council (DPR), the lower house of Indonesia's bicameral parliament. He became deputy speaker of the DPR on 20 March 2018. He was reelected in 2024 with 116,794 votes.

External links

• Utut Adianto rating card at FIDE
• Utut Adianto FIDE rating history at OlimpBase.org
• Utut Adianto Chess Olympiad record at OlimpBase.org
• Utut Adianto chess games at 365Chess.com
• Utut Adianto player profile and games at Chessgames.com
• Casto Abundo (7 May 2009). "Chess Grandmaster Utut Adianto elected Senator". Chess News. ChessBase. Archived from the original on 18 October 2014.
• Sekolah Catur Utut Adianto (chess school) (in Indonesian)