Utut Adianto Wahyuwidayat was born in Jakarta on 16 March 1965. He is the fourth child of five children.[2] 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.[2]
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.[3] 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.[4] In 2005, Adianto was awarded the title of FIDE Senior Trainer.[5]
Notable games
Utut and Iván Morovic, Junior Chess World Championship 1980 at Dortmund
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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.[8][9] He was reelected in 2024 with 116,794 votes.[10]
