Nana Ioseliani, left, against fellow Soviet Anatoly Karpov concentrate during their 1st round match of the first 1988 World Active Chess Championship in Mexico.
2015 PALAU RAPID CHESS
CHAMPIONSHIP ON JULY 19-
AUGUST 16
AFTER the player/s come back from participating in the
2015 Oceania Zonal Chess Championship in Sydney, Australia, the next tourney of
the year by Palau Chess Federation will fire off on July 19 at Bethlehem Park –
the 2015 Palau Rapid Chess Championship.
The
time control in this event, known before as Active Chess, is 25 minutes for
each player to finish the game with 10 seconds increment. If mechanical clock
will be used, it is 30 minutes. The players need to play at least 2 games per
week in this Swiss system 9-round championship.
The
30 top seeds and their rapid FIDE ratings are 1. Cyril Montel, Jr. (1920) 2.
Tito Cabunagan (1883) 3. Roberto Hernandez (1858) 4. Paquito Suringa, Jr.
(1763) 5. CM Bernardo Garcia (1732-Standard) 6. Dennis Gonzales (1700) 7. Angelica
Parrado (1689) 8. Eugenio Pastrana (1681) 9. Rustum Cabuso (1674) 10. Jeffrey
Balbalosa (1615) 11. Gonzalo Escapatoria, Jr. (1608-Standard) 12. Mohammad
Manik Hossain (1595) 13. Remrel Dizon (1541) 14. Baby Edna Mission (1530) 15. Eric
Ksau Whipps (1514) 16. Neph Macasaet (1510-Standard) 17. Nilo de Jesus (1497)
18. Jon Manuel Reyes (1497) 19. Jaime dela Cruz (1497) 20. Manuel Mahor, Jr.
(1489) 21. Gladys Anne Paloma (1466) 22. Felix Oling (1465) 23. Destiny Sisior
(1458) 24. Eugene Labarda (1448) 25. Elpidio Manaligod (1442) 26. Rafael Paloma
(1436) 27. Ksau Anthony Whipps (1422) 28. Angelil Sisior (1397) 29. Glen
Navarroza (1353) 30. Robert Godwin Sola (1341).
This article from The Khaleej
Times (Tuesday- December 13, 1988) was gathered by Roberto Hernandez while
working as musician in Bahrain from January 1987-April 1989…
DMAZATLAN (Mexico) -- Some of
the globe's top chess players battled against each other and the clock on
Sunday, at the opening of the first World Active Chess Championship.
Former world champion Anatoly
Karpov of the Soviet Union won his first round match well within the time limit
but others took their game to the wire in the $150,000 tournament of rapid
chess.
While Karpov appeared to have
little difficulty with fellow Soviet Nana Ioseliani, other players found their
pieces literally flying off the board as they attempted to finish their matches
within the 60-minute time limit.
Walter Browne of the United
States frantically made his final moves against cool 14-year-old Hungarian
Zsofia Polgar, before the two agreed to a first round draw.
Active chess is an attempt to
make the sport more palatable for a mass television audience.
"In general it's less
beautiful but it's much more exciting, even for the players," said Horst
Metzing, General Secretary of the West German Chess Federation.
Unlike traditional chess where
single matches can last over six hours, active chess must be finished within an
hour with each player having 30 minutes to make his moves.
The active form is an effort by
chess players and promoters to gain a larger audience and television coverage
for a sport traditionally limited to a hardcore following of aficionados.
With increase popularity, there
would be more money for national and international chess federations as well as
for players, tournament organizers said.
"If television is
interested, the sponsors are interested," Metzing said.
The Active Chess Championship,
being played through Saturday in Mazatlan on Mexico's Pacific coast, is being
televised to the United States and Europe by a Mexican television network.
Solution to last week’s puzzle
No. 3868: 1. Qxd8+!! Rxd8 2. Rxf76+ Kg8 3. Nf6 or Nh6 mate.
This week’s puzzle No. 3749:
White to move and mates in 3 (Solution next issue)
Tia Belau Newspaper
Page 9
Volume 24
Issue 56
June 15, 2015
No comments:
Post a Comment