PLAYING 2 players at a time becomes a trend in the last week of Palau Royal Resort rating chess tournament with Paul Garcia playing the 2 chess computers simultaneously and beating Excalibur in 54 moves of Dutch Defence and Ivan II in 19 moves of Queen's Pawn Opening.
He lost to Robert 'Tube Ice' Tubice when he missed a rook check that would have given him a whole piece advantage in the endgame.
Instead, he played passively and lost to his catalyst in a Bishop Opening game but still in contention for the top 8 slot.
Another 3 medals were added to the prize donated by Mr. Allan Tuppil, the Food & Beverage Manager of PRR.
OTHER RESULTS OF THE PENULTIMATE ROUND OF THE TOURNEY:
Top seed Roberto Hernandez played 2 players at a time and beat them both.
He clobbered Zaldy Ranopa in 42 moves of Modern Defence and survived a strong resistance from Laurence Abuton in 31 moves of Sicilian Defence.
Another simultaneous game was played by Arnel Pama versus Dennis Lara and Jaime Guevarra but lost both games one the eve of his departure for emergency leave.
Ranopa scored the quickest victory over Ivan II when he sacrificed a rook and a bishop without any material consideration except to maintain his initiative in mounting a bewildering attack.
He unified his forces into perfect harmony so that when his heavy artillery ignited the first salvo, the belligerent forces were in frenzy dodging the spitfire. Pandemonium broke loose as continuous shelling ravage Ivan's territory and was mated on the 19th move.
With the tournament to be concluded on Oct. 31, 2007, many players will not be able to finished their remaining games and organizers will decide if they will forfeit those games to the players who refuse to play when asked to like Arnold Rivera, Abe Francisco and Randy "Buhawi" Sioson.
Awarding of cash prizes, trophy and medals will be held after Mr. Tuppil's short vacation. He and Pama will be back on Nov. 10, 2007.
Two weeks after the awarding, a rapid chess tournament will be held again with players having the pleasure of not annotating their moves anymore.
On November 18, 2007, the Knights and Rooks Chess Club (Palau) will have their own rapid chess tournament which will conclude on Dec. 16, 2007.
If there are still games to be played, it will be held on Dec. 23 to coincide with KRCC Christmas Party and Blitz Chess Festival.
Jaime Guevarra showed interest in participating as his time schedule can have him play a game on Saturday and another game on Sunday, most probably morning.
STANDINGS OF PLAYERS AND THEIR WIN-LOSS-DRAW RECORD:
1. Roberto Hernandez (25-4-1) 2. Jaime Guevarra (18-5-3) 3. Nino Flores (19-4-0) 4. Zaldy Ranopa (17-6-2) 5. Arnel Pama (17-12-2) 6. Dennis Lara (16-5-0) 7. Robert Tubice (16-10-2) 8. Paul Garcia (14-7-0) 9. Laurence Abuton (14-10-2) 10. Paquito Suringa, Jr. (12-17-0) 11. Abe Francisco (10-6-0) 12. Tony Penas (9-11-0) 13. Erick Ventinilla (8-15-1) 14. Randy Sioson (6-16-0) 15. Manny Dulay (6-20-0) 16. Excalibur (4-13-5) 17. Ivan II (2-14-4) 18. Arnold Rivera (2-5-0) 19. Zuenie Mirabueno (0-32-4).
Source: Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Page 13
Volume 17
November 02-08, 2007
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