PALAU first National Master Manny Nedic and 3rd seed Cyril Montel, Jr. have lost only 2 games so far. They have the best slate in the ongoing rapid chess tournament.
On Saturday evening, Montel, Jr. scored 2 whole points over newcomer Andres 'Aying' Mestizo II while Nedic escape with a draw when Mestizo also missed a mate in one like last week against 4th seed Roberto Hernandez at Palau Royal Resort Dormitory 1.
Nedic won the 2nd round match with Mestizo to earned a 10-2-3 win-loss-draw record.
He was the co-champion of 2006 Palau National Chess Championship with Menandro Manuel to earn their National Master title.
Earlier on the day, Montel, Jr. (8-2-2) clobbered Hernandez (11-5-1) in their Caro-Kahn Defence encounter where the endgame wizardry of Cyril extracted a whole point and boosted his chances to earn his first ever chess title in Palau after being runner-up in many occasions.
Koror State Legal Counsel Craig Dittrich (10-14-2) outlasted Jaime Guevarra (3-7-1) in their 2nd round match and they practiced blitz chess after their game as no more available players were around.
Hernandez also played 4 blitz chess games with venue host Gene Pastrana (9-11-2) winning all of them.
Jose Omega (9-6-3) also played blitz chess with Pastrana, who lost also to Montel, Jr. in the last game of the day.
With blitz specialist and current leader Tony Villa (14-3-3) to come back from vacation on January 14, the tournament will be in full swing with Palau Royal Resort's players to play against each other at Dormitory 1 on their available time.
OTHER PLAYERS AND THEIR RECORD:
Menandro 'Boy' Manuel (10-5-3), Dennis Lara (2-10-3), Paul Garcia (1-7-1), Mike Mercado (9-5-3), Danny Dandoy (1-4-0), Dennis Gonzales (5-3-0), Mestizo (3-8-2) and the only player left without a win Joven delos Santos (0-13-0).
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 13
Volume 18
Issue 02
January 11-17, 2008
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