PMCC Pastor Jeric dela Cruz, 5th from right, back row, brings back the repaired laptop of Roberto Hernandez, 3rd from left, when he visited Palau for PMCC 9th Thanksgiving and Spiritual Empowerment. At Roberto’s right is Mr. Yoshiharu Kurata, a senior JICA Volunteer, who rendered 2 numbers during the Gospel Concert. Squatting (L-R) Russel and Alex Lumawon, Darwil Cal and Patrick. Back row (R-L) Allan Sauro, Jun Quintana, Jhoie Salvador, Luz Palma, Norberto Singian, Rolly Adducul and Ryan Carandang. They are all participants of the Gospel Concert. (Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
2014 PALAU OPEN TO FINISH
ROUND 1 ON MARCH 23
ONLY one game was played in the 1st round of
2014 Palau Open Chess. New comer John Joseph Pabiona, with a FIDE Standard
rating of 1214 and a more impressive Blitz rating of 1616, upset 4th
seed Tito Cabunagan (1829) in 47 moves of Center Counter.
Tito
lost his queen for a knight after being ahead by a bishop. Over-confidence cost
Tito a whole point as Pabiona simplified the game and is about to win the last
minor piece of Tito when the latter resigned. Tito stopped writing his moves on
the 15th move. Pabiona is not writing his moves because he has not
been taught yet to write chess notations.
Writing
chess notations in this 90-minute time control is mandatory. Roberto Hernandez
taught Jose Senase Rodriguez how to write chess notation before his game with
Gladys Anne Paloma, who didn’t show up also. He will teach Charley Patris this
Sunday how to write chess notations before his game with Baby Edna Mission.
The
Palau Chess Federation Board Members and its president held a meeting on Wed.
March 19 and one of the tackled agenda is to finish the 1st round of
the event on Sunday. Absent players will lose by default so that the 2nd
round can begin on March 30. Players are also advised to pay their registration
fee of $10.00 before playing their game. NO PAY NO PLAY will be implemented.
The
list of players listed at www.fide.com is
COMPLETE for STANDARD RATED PLAYERS, which is 61. The Rapid/Blitz (17 players),
unrated (22) and Rated but inactive (19) if totaled with Standard is 119.
The year of birth of the players is listed in the website so
that journalists can cite ages to indicate who are battling: youth vs.
experience, youth vs. youth. It’s also indicative of possible progress for
young ones. The difference in citing age or citing birth year is not an issue
as it is published in the website anyway. Chess is for ages 5 to 105; meaning
one is never too young or too old to learn and progress in chess.
Poet
Kahlil Gibran cited to FIDE, the World Chess Federation, should make this
required reading for all chess parents: “Your
children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life’s
longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are
with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them love but not your
thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not
their souls. For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot
visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to
make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.”
Solution to last week’s puzzle: 1.
Qxg6+!! hxg6 2. Bxg6+ Ke7 3. Bc5 mate.
This week’s puzzle: White to move and mates in 3
(Solution next issue)
Source: Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Page 9
Volume 23
Issue 24
March 24, 2014
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