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- ↑ Tamin, Upi Darmayana FIDE rating history 1987-2001 at OlimpBase
- ↑ Anniswati Memorial Cup 1st Leg, Jakarta 2002. IndonesiaBase.
- ↑ Upi Darmayana Tamin team chess record at Olimpbase.org
