: CHESSBOARD MAGICIAN
How did Tito Cabunagan,
left, manage to win his game against Danilo Briones of Guam? He is down by a
pawn and a rook on the 15th move and salvaged a win on the 52nd
move. He’s being labeled as “lucky” in Palau but “CHESSBOARD MAGICIAN in Guam!
WHATEVER! His charisma in person and on the chessboard is the same!
CYRIL NAILS 3rd PLUM;
2015-- THE MOST HECTIC P. C. F.
CALENDAR YEAR
(Locally and Internationally)
PALAU Chess Federation has a
total of 9 tournaments scheduled for the year 2015 (locally and
internationally). It’s the most ever. In 2002, there were only 2 and in the
succeeding years, at least 3 major tournaments that includes the National
Championships that started in 2006.
The coming 2015 PNCC is the 10th
national chess championship that was moved to the first week of Oct. and to
conclude on the first week of Dec. to avoid Christmas rush like in the last
year’s PNCC. The adjustment in date is to accommodate National Master (NM) Tito
Cabunagan and National Instructor (NI) Jeff Balbalosa, who will be
participating in the 8th event in PCF Calendar, the Datu Arthur Tan
Malaysian Open (DATMO) in Kuala Lumpur in September.
NM,NI Cyril Tomas Montel, Jr.
nailed his 3rd championship in a row by winning the 2014-2015 PNCC
and got his $175.00 cash prize and a trophy that was awarded in Jan. 25, 2015;
the 2015 Blitz Chess Championship ($125.00 cash + trophy); and the recently
concluded 2015 Palau Rapid Chess Championship ($100.00 + trophy).
It’s the most exciting final day
in Palau rapid chess history. Cyril needs to beat NI Dennis Gonzales for if he
would lose it and Jeff would win over Candidate Master (CM) Bernardo Garcia,
then Jeff will be the champion. Another twist is if Cyril and Jeff lost, and
Developmental Instructor (DI) Paquito Suringa, Jr. would win over Nilo de Jesus
and NM, FIDE Instructor (FI) Roberto Hernandez would win also against John Mark
Tamayo, thus there would be a triple tie for the crown.
Suringa might win the title via
tiebreak as he has beaten Cyril in the penultimate round. What happened was
Cyril won, Jeff won by default when Garcia didn’t show up, Paquito won over
Nilo and Roberto nipped Tamayo in 30 moves of Queen’s Fianchetto Defence
(Nimzovich Defence) to tie Paquito at 3rd spot. After the Bulchoz,
Median and Number of wins tiebreak were applied, Hernandez clinched his 3rd
runner-up plums (1st runner-up in 2014-2015 PNCC and 3rd
as well in 2015 Palau Blitz Chess Tilt.)
THE MOVES: Hernandez, Roberto (1858) - Tamayo, John Mark
[B00]
2015 Palau Rapid Chess
Championship (9), 16.08.2015
1. e4 e5 2.d4 Nc6 3.d5 Na5 4.Bd2 Nf6
5.Bxa5 Nxe4 6.Nf3 Bd6 7.Bd3 Nc5 8.Bc3 e4 9.Qe2 0–0 10.Bxe4 Nxe4 11.0–0 Re8
12.Re1 Bc5 13.Bd4 d6 14.Bxc5 dxc5 15.Qc4 Bf5 16.Nbd2 b5 17.Qxb5 Qxd5 18.c4 a6
19.Qxe8+ Rxe8 20.cxd5 h6 21.Nxe4 Bxe4 22.Nd2 f5 23.f3 Re5 24.fxe4 fxe4 25.Nxe4
Rxd5 26.Rad1 Re5 27.Rd8+ Kh7 28.Rd7 c6 29.Nf6+ Kg6 30.Rxe5 1–0
Cabunagan and Angelica Parrado withdrew
from 2015 Oceania Zonal Chess Championship in Sydney, Australia in July 4-10,
2015 --2 weeks prior to Roberto’s vacation in the Philippines (June 02-23).
With more than a month before it, the last possible replacements are Paquito
and Felix Oling. But both were not allowed to go by the management of Palau
Royal Resort due to the hotel’s renovation in Paquito’s case and schedule
conflict on Felix.
But Cabunagan was able to
participate in the 2015 Guam International and finished 7th being
seeded 7th. He defeated FIDE Master (FM) Ignatius Leong, Noel
Moguel, Danilo Briones and Victor Shiliang Wen. He lost to top seed GM Darwin
Laylo, 2nd seed Asia’s first GM Eugene Torre, Guam’s top player Efren
Onofre Manuel and Peter Mafnas. He drew with Joseph Caluag in the 8th
round.
AND CURRENTLY, PALAU IS REPRESENTED
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 2015 World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad in Mongolia, with
the Sisior family participating—Angie as coach/trainer, her 3 daughters
Destiny, Angelil and Kyarii Sisior at Board 1, 2, and 3. Their father Harvey
Sisior completes the line-up. The event is being held from Aug. 19-29.
The next tournament will be held on
Sept. 13, 20 and 27. The top 3 finishers in this event will join the Palau top
7 (Roberto, Cyril, Tito, Bernard, Jeff, Dennis and Paquito) in the Top 10 Division
of 2015 PNCC. The rest will form the Reserves (or Class B). There’s a separate
Division for Women and Junior.
The possible contestants in this
non-FIDE rated event are 1. Felix Oling 2. Allan Alcid 3. Manuel Mahor, Jr. 4.
Arnolfo Inres 5. Gonzalo Escapatoria, Jr. 6. Nilo de Jesus 7. Sofronio “Pons”
Mahor 8. Glen Navarroza 9. Eugene Labarda 10. John Mark Tamayo 11. Josef Karlo
Moyet 12. Neph Macasaet.
Solution to last week’s puzzle No. 3782:
1. Nxg7+! Bxg7 2. Rxe6+! fxe6 3. Qg6 mate.
This week’s puzzle No. 3783: White
to move and mates in 3 (Solution next issue)
Source: Chess Mate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 9-10
Volume 24
Issue 68
August 24, 2015
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