Thursday, February 18, 2016

(1162) 2-ROUND LIGHTNING & 3-ROUND BLITZ ON FEB. 14 (TBN-Feb. 15, 2016)



MEN IN RED, RUNNING AS PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENTS
                  K.K.K. Party candidate as President Max Joseph Asido, middle, is flanked by his 2 running mates as Vice President Robert Hernandez, left, and Bonifacio ‘Nonoy’ Arganda during their meeting at PCC Abai on Feb. 07, 2016. Asido and Hernandez both ran as Auditor in the TFCP election in Feb. 08, 2004 where Hernandez won. Asido lost because there is a ‘nuisance’ candidate (Guillermo Asido) revealed only on election day to confuse the voters. This election on Feb. 28 might be the cleanest ever due to dedicated COMELEC staff headed by Chairman Issa.   (Photo by Roberto Hernandez)


    2-ROUND LIGHTNING &
3-ROUND BLITZ ON FEB. 14

  
AS PER Palau Chess Federation Board meeting on Feb. 09, there will be a 2-round Lightning Chess competition in preparation for the 3-round Palau Blitz Chess Championship at Bethlehem Park on Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14).

                The registration fee for Lightning is $2.00 only with the half going to the champion and the other half, for PCF, while in Blitz Chess it is peg at $5.00. The time control is 1 minute for each player to finish the game with 1 second increment as what had been done in the Jan. 18 edition of Lightning Chess. It can be a 6-round Swiss system event if the participants are only 12 or less.
 The Blitz Chess Championship is a 9-round Swiss system with a time control of 5 minutes and 3 seconds increment. Each player has to play 3 games every Sunday (Feb. 14, 21, and 28) with the top 3 finishers (not 5 as published earlier) receiving medals.
In the Board Meeting, it was decided that a Palau player is the Team Captain, a position that was held by Australian Jamie Kenmure in the last 3 Chess Olympiads –2010 Russia, 2012 Turkey and 2014 Norway. Mr. Kenmure is the Rating Officer of Palau, Guam and Solomon Islands.
The Palau Chess Team composition to the 2016 Baku, Azerbaijan World Chess Olympiad is: Board 1—Paquito Suringa, Jr.; Board 2—Tito Cabunagan; Board 3—Jeffrey Balbalosa; Board 4—Cyril Tomas Montel, Jr.; Board 5/Reserve—Roberto Hernandez and Team Captain is Dennis Gonzales while the Delegate is Eric Ksau Surangel Whipps.
In the 2010 World Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, only Hernandez and Cabunagan made it but were not allowed to play because of a new rule that a team must have at least 3 members to be allowed to participate. Jamie was not allowed because he is listed under Australia. The Delegate, Mr. Jan Berglund, was not allowed to play because his passport doesn’t show any stamp that he had been to Palau at least once.
This unfortunate incident will not happen to Palau Chess team to Baku even if 3 of its members will not make it because a team captain (local player) can play if a team is short of players.
At the very strong Qatar Masters Open 2015, Chinese Yangyi Yu and World Champion Norwegian Magnus Carlsen finished with an identical 7 points out of 9 games but Yu prevailed in a tiebreak. The tournament is so strong that 5 players with 6.5 points each are tied at 3rd-7th. Ten players with 6 points each are tied at 8th-17th spot. But it’s very amazing to think that 21 players with 5.5 are tied at 18th-39th place! Included in this crowded group are GM Wesley So (26th), who changed federation from Philippines to USA, and former women world champion Yifan Hou (38th).
GM So was followed by Italian Fabiano Caruana a year later to make the USA a favorite to win the Baku World Chess Olympiad as they boast their 3 GMs, all in the Top 10 in the FIDE Rating list. They are Hikaru Nakamura, Caruana and So. The complete cross table with + as win, = as draw and – as a loss:
 
Qatar Masters Open 2015, Doha QAT 2015


1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

1. Yu Yangyi
2736
+105
+73
=18
=8
+13
=25
=6
+24
+26
7/9
2. Carlsen, Magnus
2834
=103
+46
+56
+14
+25
=26
=10
+31
=6
7/9
3. Sjugirov, Sanan
2646
+59
=13
+88
=4
=38
+20
+33
-6
+31
6½/9
4. Ni Hua
2693
=110
+125
+58
=3
=52
+30
=5
=17
+27
6½/9
5. Karjakin, Sergey
2766
+127
=52
=19
+21
+42
=18
=4
=16
+36
6½/9
6. Kramnik, Vladimir
2796
+47
=21
=94
+34
+28
=31
=1
+3
=2
6½/9
7. Ivanchuk, Vassily
2710
=109
+81
=40
=48
=49
+80
+61
=15
+18
6½/9
8. Ganguly, Surya Shekhar
2648
+72
=116
+119
=1
+37
=10
-31
+52
=11
6/9
9. Sethuraman, S
2639
+131
+87
-25
-13
+65
-56
+98
+61
+51
6/9
10. Giri, Anish
2784
+65
+24
+20
=25
=26
=8
=2
=12
=15
6/9
11. Vitiugov, Nikita
2724
-13
+59
=93
+81
+36
=16
+19
=18
=8
6/9
12. Ponomariov, Ruslan
2710
+45
=57
=95
=36
+48
+44
=26
=10
=13
6/9
13. Xu, Yinglun
2470
+11
=3
=30
+9
-1
+21
+85
=37
=12
6/9
14. Duda, Jan Krzysztof
2663
+79
=99
+44
-2
=101
=95
=73
+62
+54
6/9
15. Akopian, Vladimir
2648
=112
+108
+99
-26
=57
+58
+62
=7
=10
6/9
16. Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son
2642
=61
=106
+112
=49
+119
=11
+22
=5
=17
6/9
17. Harikrishna, Penteala
2743
=46
+103
=52
=24
+35
+39
=18
=4
=16
6/9
18. Swiercz, Dariusz
2646
+117
+63
=1
=37
+22
=5
=17
=11
-7
5½/9
19. Sasikiran, Krishnan
2638
=115
+70
=5
=101
=87
+49
-11
=69
+76
5½/9
20. Wojtaszek, Radoslaw
2723
+100
+27
-10
+94
=23
-3
=35
+41
=21
5½/9
21. Piorun, Kacper
2637
+83
=6
=51
-5
+74
-13
+91
+56
=20
5½/9
22. Korobov, Anton
2713
+97
=64
=36
+95
-18
+52
-16
=73
+46
5½/9
23. Bologan, Viktor
2654
+67
-56
+55
+73
=20
-33
+44
-36
+57
5½/9
24. Grandelius, Nils
2632
+60
-10
+106
=17
=107
+101
+28
-1
=37
5½/9
25. Li, Chao B
2750
+53
+35
+9
=10
-2
=1
=34
=30
=32
5½/9
26. So, Wesley
2775
+76
+34
=37
+15
=10
=2
=12
=27
-1
5½/9
27. Lin Chen
2532
+90
-20
=77
=102
+88
+42
+38
=26
-4
5½/9
28. Matlakov, Maksim
2684
+55
=44
+64
+57
-6
=62
-24
=48
+73
5½/9
29. Lu Shanglei
2618
=123
=75
=102
=91
+83
=51
=39
=38
+66
5½/9
30. Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi
2644
+104
=88
=13
=56
+99
-4
+75
=25
=33
5½/9
31. Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar
2748
+93
=36
+54
=42
+32
=6
+8
-2
-3
5½/9
32. Khismatullin, Denis
2654
-116
+72
+110
+68
-31
=40
=69
+45
=25
5½/9
33. Jakovenko, Dmitrij
2737
=81
+109
=48
=35
+78
+23
-3
=34
=30
5½/9
34. Naroditsky, Daniel
2628
+132
-26
+104
-6
+91
+87
=25
=33
=39
5½/9
35. Ipatov, Alexander
2619
+69
-25
+83
=33
-17
+109
=20
=66
+60
5½/9
36. Zhang Zhong
2619
+130
=31
=22
=12
-11
+110
+43
+23
-5
5½/9
37. Howell, David
2688
+96
+68
=26
=18
-8
=41
+95
=13
=24
5½/9
38. Hou, Yifan
2683
+98
=58
=49
+80
=3
=61
-27
=29
+69
5½/9
39. Fedoseev, Vl3
2664
=125
=110
+45
+40
=61
-17
=29
+58
=34
5½/9
40. Xu Jun
2526
=111
+122
=7
-39
+77
=32
-54
=59
+88
5/9
41. Bartel, Mateusz
2620
=119
=92
-61
+106
+53
=37
=66
-20
+96
5/9
42. Dubov, Daniil
2655
+101
=49
+116
=31
-5
-27
-45
+91
+75
5/9
43. Moiseenko, Alexander
2689
=82
=91
=97
+109
-62
+99
-36
=57
+93
5/9
44. Al Sayed, Mohamad Naser
2520
+84
=28
-14
+92
+50
-12
-23
+63
=52
5/9
45. Ly, Moulthun
2462
-12
+84
-39
-83
+124
+88
+42
-32
+95
5/9
46. Aravindh, Chithambaram VR
2486
=17
-2
+130
-107
+112
=50
+114
+85
-22
5/9
47. Khotenashvi













Solution to last week’s puzzle No. 3824: 1. Qg7+!! Kxg7 2. Nf5++ Kg8 3. Nh6 mate.

Still nobody solve the special re-issue puzzle No. 3823. The correct solution: 1. Qg8+!! Putting the black queen out of action… Qxg8 2. Kd3! And there’s no way black can thwart the 3. c4 mate.

This week’s puzzle No. 3825: White to move and  mates in 3 (Solution next issue)

Sources: Chess Mate by Roberto Hernandez
                   Tia Belau Newspaper
                   Pages 9-10
                   Volume 25
                   Issue 13
                   February 15, 2016

                  Chess nnd Music (Perfect Combination)
                  The Beginning of Chess in Palau
                   By Roberto Hernandez
                   To be published as a book in the future
                   The History of Chess in Palau
                    By Roberto Hernandez
                    June 09, 2002 -- February 15, 2016

                   Music and Me by Roberto Hernandez
                   Tia Belau Newspaper
                   March 5, 2012 -- April 2013
                   http://palau-chess.blogspot.com
                   April 2013 --February 15, 2016
 



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