Winners of the tilt are -- Arnolfo Inres, middle, champion; Allan Alcid, 2nd from left, 2nd place and Joan Gemota, 2nd from right, --3rd place. They received a trophy each and $20.00, $15.00 and $10.00 cash prizes respectively. Jeff Balbalosa, left, and Roberto Hernandez presented the trophies and cash prizes to the happy winners.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
TOP 3 WINNERS OF 2015 UNRATED
CHESS TOURNAMENT
(Arnolfo Inres, Allan Alcid and Joan Gemoto)
IT WAS another successful chess event held by Palau Chess Federation -- the 2015 Unrated Rapid Chess Tournament held at Bethlehem Park on Sunday, July 12, 2015.
There were only 7 unrated players who registered, with the last one at 5pm and there is no time to play a 4-round games so the organizers decided to hold it -- in one day, the next Sunday.
The last 3 entrants are 8. Ariel Mina (Feb. 15, 1968 -- Tel. 779-8189) 9. Allan Bacuno (Nov. 18, 1979 - Tel. 488-5472) 10. Josef Karlo Moyet (Sept. 04, 1988 -- Tel. 488-4463).
When the list of participants reached 10 entrees, the 1st round was set, Joan Gemota was fitted against Ariel Mina, who is watching the finals of a basketball game nearby.
The defaulting is just one minute and Joan earned her first win via default.
In her game against Pons Mahor, Roberto noticed that Pons moved a pawn after Joan captured a bishop with a pawn that exposed her king for an illegal move. Since Pons didn't notify the arbiter about the illegal move and making a pawn move, Roberto explained to Joan that she has to move the king for it is under check.
After moving her king, Pons captured a pawn with a pawn and 2 moves later, he made an illegal move (putting his queen to a dark diagonal where it is originally from a white diagonal. He said, "I think it's not the right place for a queen to be." Roberto traced where the queen came from and declared an illegal move. So Joan won another tough one via illegal move.
In her 7th and last round game against Allan Bacuno, she is way behind materials as she has only a bishop and a king. But Allan is under extreme time pressure with 3 seconds left in his clock and when Allan's time expires, she reveled in excitement as she thought she won that game.
Cyril Montel, Jr. noticed that it's not a win for her because she doesn't have enough materials to mate Allan's king. It doesn't matter as the half point is all she needed to win 3rd place for a trophy and $10.00 cash.
Arnolfo Inres and Allan Alcid are tied for 1st place with identical 6.5 points after 7 rounds. They drew their game so the winner over the other tiebreak (Direct Encounter) can't be applied.
The Swiss Perfect software computed the other tiebreaks and Inres emerged as champion with a trophy and $20.00 cash in which he pays for the next tournament on Sunday, July 19, the 2015 Palau Rapid Chess Championship.
The registration for this event is $15.00 for members, $17.00 for non-members and a package deal of $20.00 for non-members for an automatic membership. Inres prefers this choice and paid his cash prize for automatic membership.
The coming event offers cash prizes of $100.00, $80.00, $60.00, $40.00 and $20.00 for the top 5 finishers in the Open division + trophies to the top 4 and medal for 5th.
Women and Juniors are having their separate double round-robin format. The Open is 9-round Swiss system and players in this division have to play 2 games a week.
Source: The History of Chess in Palau
By Roberto Hernandez
June 09, 2002 - July 12, 2015
To be published as a book in the future
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