Edwin Eti, left, is receiving his Certificate of Participation in the 2005-2006 Palau Rapid Chess Championship in which he finished 2nd to Menandro Manuel with 45 wins, 9 losses and 2 draws in the 29-player field of double round-robin event. He finished 7th in the 2006 PNCC, being seeded 7th.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
ETI SCORES 2 WINS;
MORTON STUNS PASTRANA
THERE were only 3 games that were played in the 2nd
round of 2006 Palau National Chess Championship held at Jean’s Boutique and
Store on Sunday, March 26 but blitz chess specialist Edwin Eti played 2 of
them. One of it is against 2nd seed Jose Omega, which was adjourned
and after the resumption, Eti prevailed.
The
2nd game of the day is between 9th seed Palauan bet
Morton Sawaichi and 7th seed and venue host Gene Pastrana. On the 10th
move, Pastrana sacrificed his bishop for 2 pawns which proved to be decisive as
Morton unleashed an attack to Pastrana’s pinned queen.
On
the 23rd move, Morton is way ahead by a knight and a passed pawn on
f6. After the immediate exchange of queens, Pastrana’s hope of salvaging the
game lies on his 2 connected passed pawns on the queen side but Morton was able
to activate his king to the center that cramped Pastrana’s king. After a clever
g pawn sacrifice on the 3th move, the knight check posted it to a very strong
post.
Although
Gene can capture the knight on the 41st move, he will be mated in 8
moves thereafter. Instead, Gene moved his king to g8 and was mated 2 moves
later.
THE MOVES: Sawaichi, Morton (1913) -
Pastrana, Gene (1938) [B21]
2006 PNCC (2), 26.03.2006
1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.Qxd4 Nc6 4.Qe3
e5 5.Nf3 Nf6 6.Bd3 b6 7.a3 Bc5 8.Qg5 g6 9.0–0 d6 10.b4 Bxb4 11.axb4 Nxb4
12.Bb5+ Bd7 13.Nc3 0–0 14.Ba3 Nxc2 15.Bxd6 Re8 16.Bxe5 Re6 17.Bc4 Rxe5 18.Nxe5
Nxa1 19.Nxf7 Qe7 20.e5 Be6 21.exf6 Qxf7 22.Bxe6 Qxe6 23.Rxa1 a5 24.Qd5 Re8
25.Qxe6+ Rxe6 26.Nd5 Rd6 27.Rd1 Kf7 28.g4 g5 29.Kg2 b5 30.Kg3 b4 31.f4 h6 32.h4
a4 33.hxg5 hxg5 34.fxg5 a3 35.Kf4 b3 36.Ke5 Ra6 37.g6+ Kxg6 38.Nf4+ Kf7 39.Rd7+
Ke8 40.Re7+ Kf8 41.Ne6+ Kg8 [41...Rxe6+ 42.Kxe6 a2 43.Ra7 a1Q 44.Rxa1 Kg8
45.Ra8+ Kh7 46.Kf7 b2 47.Ra5 b1Q 48.Rh5#]
42.f7+
Kh8 43.f8Q# 1–0
The
3rd and last game of the day was between Dennis Gonzales and Eti, in
which the latter prevailed to make it a perfect day for him. After the
completion of the 3 regular games, a blitz chess competition was held among 7
players – Hernandez, Eti, Pastrana, Cyril Montel, Jr., Jimmy Valenzuela,
Menandro Manuel and Manny Nedic.
The
same time control and format as usual – 10 minutes each to finish the game
without increment because they are using mechanical clocks. Registration fee is
$5.00 with the half going to the champion and the half to be spent on drinks.
Manuel
is in his top form as he swept the opposition like a storm and prevailed
undefeated in 6 games. Nedic lost a game to Manuel but won all his remaining
games to finished 2nd with 5 points. Eti and Montel, Jr. are tied at
3-4th place with an identical 3-3-0 win-loss-draw card. Valenzuela
is 5th with 2-4-0 slate and Roberto finished tied with Pastrana at
6-7th in his worst blitz chess participation at 1-5-0.
Sources: Chess Mate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 9-10
Volume 10
Issue 14
March 31--April 07, 2006
The History of Chess in Palau
By Roberto Hernandez
June 09, 2002 --March 26, 2006
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