Left to right, Ferdinand Gutierrez, Rey Alenain, Roberto Hernandez, Mar Joel Gabris and Miguel Gancayco posed before the start of their games in which Hernandez played the four all at a time on Friday, February 24, 2012 at the resumption of 3rd Pax Cup Rapid Chess tourney. (Photo by Lee Lozano)
IN THE RESUMPTION of 3rd
Pax Cup Rapid Chess tournament at Palau Royal Resort Dormitory 1 on Friday,
Feb. 24, 2012, top seed Roberto Hernandez clobbered 2nd seed Paquito
‘Pax’ Suringa, Jr. in 31 moves of Sicilian Defence at 2:30 pm.
Pax
won a piece (bishop) on the 13th move but committed a blunder 11
moves later when instead of 24. Rc8, he moved Kd7, leaving a whole rook
unprotected. Another mistake on the 29th move cost him his queen and
bishop for a pair of rooks. After losing his last remaining piece, Pax resigned
on the 31st move.
Rudel Roxas also played his first game vs. Hernandez and quickly lost the 1st and 2nd game. Ferdinand Gutierrez is not available at that time to have at least 2 opponents for Hernandez at the same time as odds to lower rated players.
At 7:30 pm, Hernandez played 4 PRR players at the same time with him having all the white pieces on all boards. At board 1 is Gutierrez, at 2 is Rey Alenain, who split his match with Mar Joel Gabris earlier. At board 3 is Miguel Gancayco and Gabris at board 4. They are using 3 digital chess clock whose time control is 20 minutes for each player to finish the game plus 10 seconds increment starting from move 1. The other clock (mechanical) is being used in Hernandez vs. Gancayco match with 30 minutes each for both players to finish the game.
Gabris
is the first one to get mated after he lost his queen very early in the game.
Gutierrez followed suit but Alenain gave Hernandez the toughest fight with the
latter having 39 seconds remaining in his clock. Alenain tried to beat
Hernandez on time forfeit and moves quickly also that cost him the game as
Hernandez forked his king and rook to equalize and later promoted a pawn into a
queen to survived Rey’s onslaught.
Hernandez
is also down by 2 pieces in his game vs. Gancayco but a powerful pin on
Miguel’s king enabled Hernandez to equalize and been ahead by a piece instead.
A mating net was being weaved by Hernandez and after a loss of another piece,
Gancayco resigned to the relief of Hernandez, who focus more on his game with
Rey as he is in extreme time trouble against him.
After the games, the crowd appreciates Rey and Miguel’s efforts in giving Hernandez tough matches. Analyses show that with precise defense and attack, Rey and Miguel should have scored upsets. Later in the night, Rey took the measure of Miguel to have an even night with 2 wins and 2 losses.
Standings
of players and their win-loss-draw record: 1. Roberto Hernandez (12-0-0) 2.
Paquito Suringa, Jr. (7-4-1) 3. Rudel Roxas (6-6-0) 4. Rey Alenain (5-6-0) 5.
Ronnie Capio (4-7-1) 6. Ferdinand Gutierrez (4-6-0) 7. Dan Roldan (2-8-0) 8.
Mar Joel Gabris (1-2-0) 9. Miguel Gancayco (0-2-0). Jeffrey Negrillo, Edwin
Acuyan and Ferdie Altea have yet to play a game. Elizalde Madrinan and Nino
Flores have withdrawn due to schedule conflict.
Adele
Anzawa has informed Hernandez that she and her son George will not make it to
the Palau women’s team in the 2012 World Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey to
be held on August 27-Sept. 12, 2012. They will be having a vacation instead in
Hong Kong in June or July in time of school break.
This development opens the door for another Palau player (male or female) to be with the team as Team Captain of Palau women’s team. If Paquito can save for his airfare, he might be included as team captain and will be a reserve player in the men’s (Open) division if one of the 5 committed players (Hernandez, Tito Cabunagan, Bernard Garcia, Menandro Manuel and reserve Mohammad Manik Hossain) will not make it to Istanbul.
The
women’s team is composed of Angie Parrado, Elizabeth Manuel (Menandro’s wife),
and the possibility of including Karen Lee and Ann Acebron to the list as they
are already listed under Palau at FIDE website. Ma. Florida Hernandez might be
included as reserve and those last 3 in the list have a few months to find
airfare sponsors to grab this once in a lifetime opportunity.
One
possible problem that Manik is facing is getting a Turkish visa. He’s a holder
of Bangladesh passport and he has to get the visa in Bangladesh while the
others will get theirs in Philippines. After the invitation from the organizers
have been sent to Palau Chess Federation, Manik might have to go ahead of the
team members to get his visa in Bangladesh and meet the other members in
Istanbul. GOOD LUCK, MANIK!!!
Source: Chess Mate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 9-10
Volume 21
Issue 09
February 27, 2012
)Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 9-10
Volume 21
Issue 09
February 27, 2012
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