KOROR STATE Legal Counsel Craig Dittrich finally ended the surging blitz chess specialist Antonio Villa in a last game marathon match on Sunday, May 04 at Jean's Boutique and Store in the resumption of 2008 Palau National Chess Championship.
After dominating mostly newcomers, Villa succumbed to pressure of being a piece down in an endgame with isolated pawns. He was forced to move a touched piece that resulted in being a piece down.
With Dittrich taking full advantage of the time control that fits his style of play, he exploited his advantage with Villa trying to salvage at least a draw.
With two more victories over the father and son participants on Monday evening, Dittrich is in solo 2nd place and looking forward to his first chess title in Palau.
Other results of previous games: 2nd seed Jose Omega defeated Dennis Lara, a cook at Palau Royal Resort, in 38 moves of Slav Defence in a game held at Dormitory 1 of PRR on April 29th; 5th seed Roberto Hernandez won his first game over Jimboy de Jesus in 29 moves of Sicilian Defence on Saturday, May 03; 3rd seed Cyril Montel, Jr. also plyed his first game on Sunday and drew a tough game with Andres 'Aying' Mestizo in a marathon 76-move of King's Indian Defence; Villa spoiled Elizalde Madrinan's first tournament game with a 35-move conquest of Sicilian Defence; Dittrich dealt Mestizo another loss in 56 moves of Queen's Gambit Accepted.
De Jesus scored a full point over Mercado in 40 moves of Bishop Opening; Mestizo lost to Villa in 31 moves of Queen's Pawn Opening (this game was published last week where it should be Mercado vs. Mestizo); Madrinan suffered another tough loss to Palau first National Master Manny Nedic; Dittrich and Mercado halved the point in another long game; Villa spoiled another debut tournament play of newcomer Elpidio Manaligod; Mestizo lost another game to Nedic.
Madrinan drew with 10-year old Ken Pastrana after the boy accepted his offer of a truce with a whole rook advantage; Manaligod suffered the same fate of Eli and lost his 2nd game to de Jesus; Mercado and de Jesus extracted a full point off Mohammad Manik Hossain, the lone Bangladeshi participant.
Monday evening results: (All players with the black pieces won) Hossain lost to Gene Pastrana, his first game of the tourney; Ken Pastrana lost to Dittrich; Hossain scored his 2nd win by clobbering Mestizo and Pastrana totes a 1-1 slate after losing to Dittrich.
Jess Toldoya, the 2004 Non-master chess champion, withdraw from the tournament after the death of his youngest son. Em-R de Vera, the 2005 Junior Rapid chess champion, will also join the field with Menandro Manuel paying his registration fee of $20.00.
Manuel also confirmed his participation but he had to go to Yap for 2 weeks on May 15, 2008 and will catch up when he returns.
Source: Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 13 & 15
Volume 18
May 09-15, 2008
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