(1261) ROUND 3 OF 2016 WORLD CHESS OLYMPIAD IN BAKU, AZERBAIJAN

118th PHIL. INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATED IN PALAU
     Eric Ksau Surangel Whipps, left, the Honorary Consul of Philippines in Palau, celebrated the 118th Philippine Independence Day at Ngarmayong Cultural Center with teammate in the 2016 World Chess Olympiad in Baku, Azerbaijan Roberto Hernandez, 2nd from left, and teammate in 2014 WCO in Tromso, Norway Baby Edna Mission, who is the emcee of the event together with a Board of Director candidate in the TFCP election held in Feb. 2016.                         (Photo by Eric Ksau Surangel Whipps)



                  ROUND 3 
  OF WORLD CHESS  OLYMPIAD
           in Baku, Azerbaijan 

    3rd Sweep of Palau vs. Hong Kong

When a GM from Georgia was caught cheating in the Dubai Open, the anti-cheating commission of FIDE has become very strict in implementing the new rules to avert future cheating.

One of them is -- you can't leave the playing area or go to the rest room if it's your turn to move.

That happens to Jeffrey Balbalosa, Board 3 player of Palau Chess Team, against Hong Kong. While waiting for his opponent Daniel King-wai Lam, he is about to go to rest room. Daniel made a move and calls the attention of the Arbiter, who called Jeffrey to come back and make a move before going to rest room.

  

Bo.	132	Hong Kong (HKG)	Rtg	-	163	Palau (PLW)	Rtg	4 : 0
72.1	FM	Wong, Brian	2007	-		Alcid, Allan	1750	1 - 0
72.2		Lam, Daniel King-wai	2169	-	AFM	Balbalosa, Jeffrey	1768	1 - 0
72.3		Pang Yui Kuen,	1963	-		Hernandez, Roberto	1798	1 - 0
72.4		Borigas, Edgardo	1894	-		Gonzales, Dennis	1651	1 - 0

It was the 3rd sweep of Palau team, who lost vs. ICCD (International Chess Committee for the Deaf) via 4-0 sweep with Board 1 and first timer in Olympiad Paquito Suringa, Jr., losing to GM Gruenfeld of Israel, and in Round 2 vs. Barbados via the same score.

 3RD ROUND RESULTS -- UP TO BOARD 27:

Board Pairings - Open

Round 3 on 2016/09/04 at 15:00
Bo.	35	Moldova (MDA)	Rtg	-	1	Russia (RUS)	Rtg	1 : 3
1.1	GM	Bologan, Victor	2648	-	GM	Karjakin, Sergey	2769	½ - ½
1.2	GM	Iordachescu, Viorel	2584	-	GM	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	2731	½ - ½
1.3	GM	Svetushkin, Dmitry	2543	-	GM	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	2740	0 - 1
1.4	IM	Hamitevici, Vladimir	2489	-	GM	Grischuk, Alexander	2754	0 - 1
Bo.	15	Cuba (CUB)	Rtg	-	7	Poland (POL)	Rtg	2½:1½
2.1	GM	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	2720	-	GM	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	2736	½ - ½
2.2	GM	Bruzon Batista, Lazaro	2623	-	GM	Duda, Jan-Krzysztof	2675	0 - 1
2.3	GM	Quesada Perez, Yuniesky	2636	-	GM	Bartel, Mateusz	2646	1 - 0
2.4	GM	Ortiz Suarez, Isan Reynaldo	2581	-	GM	Swiercz, Dariusz	2639	1 - 0
Bo.	28	Azerbaijan 2 (AZE2)	Rtg	-	9	India (IND)	Rtg	1 : 3
3.1	GM	Durarbayli, Vasif	2612	-	GM	Harikrishna, P.	2752	½ - ½
3.2	GM	Abasov, Nijat	2552	-	GM	Adhiban, B.	2671	0 - 1
3.3	GM	Bajarani, Ulvi	2509	-	GM	Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi	2669	0 - 1
3.4	GM	Guseinov, Gadir	2625	-	GM	Sethuraman, S.P.	2640	½ - ½
Bo.	4	Azerbaijan 1 (AZE)	Rtg	-	10	Hungary (HUN)	Rtg	3 : 1
4.1	GM	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	2761	-	GM	Rapport, Richard	2752	1 - 0
4.2	GM	Radjabov, Teimour	2722	-	GM	Almasi, Zoltan	2684	0 - 1
4.3	GM	Mamedov, Rauf	2666	-	GM	Balogh, Csaba	2614	1 - 0
4.4	GM	Naiditsch, Arkadij	2696	-	IM	Gledura, Benjamin	2585	1 - 0
Bo.	11	Netherlands (NED)	Rtg	-	32	Vietnam (VIE)	Rtg	2½:1½
5.1	GM	Giri, Anish	2755	-	GM	Le, Quang Liem	2723	1 - 0
5.2	GM	L'Ami, Erwin	2611	-	GM	Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son	2633	½ - ½
5.3	GM	Van Wely, Loek	2674	-	GM	Nguyen, Huynh Minh Huy	2435	½ - ½
5.4	GM	Van Kampen, Robin	2640	-	FM	Nguyen, Anh Khoi	2448	½ - ½
Bo.	36	Italy (ITA)	Rtg	-	19	Turkey (TUR)	Rtg	2½:1½
6.1	GM	Vocaturo, Daniele	2583	-	GM	Solak, Dragan	2635	½ - ½
6.2	GM	Dvirnyy, Danyyil	2543	-	GM	Ipatov, Alexander	2652	½ - ½
6.3	GM	Brunello, Sabino	2568	-	GM	Yilmaz, Mustafa	2616	½ - ½
6.4	FM	Moroni, Luca Jr	2459	-	GM	Can, Emre	2565	1 - 0
Bo.	6	England (ENG)	Rtg	-	25	Canada (CAN)	Rtg	2½:1½
7.1	GM	Adams, Michael	2738	-	GM	Bareev, Evgeny	2675	1 - 0
7.2	GM	Howell, David W L	2665	-	GM	Kovalyov, Anton	2617	0 - 1
7.3	GM	Jones, Gawain C B	2635	-	GM	Lesiege, Alexandre	2512	1 - 0
7.4	GM	Short, Nigel D	2666	-	GM	Hansen, Eric	2582	½ - ½
Bo.	2	United States of America (USA)	Rtg	-	26	Argentina (ARG)	Rtg	3 : 1
8.1	GM	Caruana, Fabiano	2808	-	GM	Peralta, Fernando	2590	1 - 0
8.2	GM	Nakamura, Hikaru	2789	-	GM	Mareco, Sandro	2606	½ - ½
8.3	GM	So, Wesley	2782	-	GM	Perez Ponsa, Federico	2585	1 - 0
8.4	GM	Robson, Ray	2674	-	GM	Flores, Diego	2595	½ - ½
Bo.	33	Brazil (BRA)	Rtg	-	3	China (CHN)	Rtg	1 : 3
9.1	GM	Fier, Alexandr	2634	-	GM	Wang, Yue	2737	0 - 1
9.2	GM	Leitao, Rafael	2616	-	GM	Ding, Liren	2753	½ - ½
9.3	GM	Barbosa, Evandro Amorim	2509	-	GM	Yu, Yangyi	2725	0 - 1
9.4	IM	Di Berardino, Diego Rafael	2499	-	GM	Li, Chao b	2746	½ - ½
Bo.	13	Germany (GER)	Rtg	-	5	Ukraine (UKR)	Rtg	1½:2½
10.1	GM	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	2687	-	GM	Eljanov, Pavel	2739	½ - ½
10.2	GM	Bluebaum, Matthias	2626	-	GM	Kryvoruchko, Yuriy	2693	½ - ½
10.3	GM	Buhmann, Rainer	2640	-	GM	Korobov, Anton	2675	½ - ½
10.4	GM	Fridman, Daniel	2618	-	GM	Volokitin, Andrei	2647	0 - 1
Bo.	8	France (FRA)	Rtg	-	14	Spain (ESP)	Rtg	2 : 2
11.1	GM	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	2813	-	GM	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	2716	½ - ½
11.2	GM	Maze, Sebastien	2617	-	GM	Salgado Lopez, Ivan	2662	½ - ½
11.3	GM	Edouard, Romain	2635	-	GM	Anton Guijarro, David	2630	½ - ½
11.4	GM	Bauer, Christian	2623	-	GM	Ibarra Jerez, Jose Carlos	2566	½ - ½
Bo.	16	Israel (ISR)	Rtg	-	24	Serbia (SRB)	Rtg	1½:2½
12.1	GM	Rodshtein, Maxim	2687	-	GM	Ivanisevic, Ivan	2650	½ - ½
12.2	GM	Postny, Evgeny	2619	-	GM	Markus, Robert	2662	½ - ½
12.3	GM	Nabaty, Tamir	2630	-	GM	Sedlak, Nikola	2537	½ - ½
12.4	GM	Baron, Tal	2553	-	GM	Indjic, Aleksandar	2548	0 - 1
Bo.	39	Paraguay (PAR)	Rtg	-	23	Belarus (BLR)	Rtg	1 : 3
13.1	GM	Delgado Ramirez, Neuris	2618	-	GM	Zhigalko, Sergei	2652	½ - ½
13.2	GM	Bachmann, Axel	2641	-	GM	Zhigalko, Andrey	2591	½ - ½
13.3	GM	Cubas, Jose Fernando	2470	-	GM	Stupak, Kirill	2561	0 - 1
13.4	FM	Latorre, Matias	2318	-	GM	Aleksandrov, Aleksej	2547	0 - 1
Bo.	29	Slovenia (SLO)	Rtg	-	71	Monaco (MNC)	Rtg	3 : 1
14.1	GM	Lenic, Luka	2622	-	GM	Marciano, David	2475	1 - 0
14.2	GM	Borisek, Jure	2558	-	FM	Villegas, Pierre	2329	½ - ½
14.3	GM	Skoberne, Jure	2562	-	GM	Efimov, Igor	2374	½ - ½
14.4	GM	Sebenik, Matej	2526	-		Ribbegren, Karl Johan	2267	1 - 0
Bo.	30	Romania (ROU)	Rtg	-	12	Norway (NOR)	Rtg	2½:1½
15.1	GM	Lupulescu, Constantin	2618	-	GM	Carlsen, Magnus	2857	½ - ½
15.2	GM	Parligras, Mircea-Emilian	2595	-	GM	Hammer, Jon Ludvig	2651	½ - ½
15.3	IM	Deac, Bogdan-Daniel	2524	-	GM	Tari, Aryan	2570	1 - 0
15.4	GM	Jianu, Vlad-Cristian	2554	-	GM	Urkedal, Frode	2537	½ - ½
Bo.	34	Peru (PER)	Rtg	-	50	Montenegro (MNE)	Rtg	2 : 2
16.1	GM	Cordova, Emilio	2638	-	GM	Djukic, Nikola	2534	½ - ½
16.2	GM	Cori, Jorge	2609	-	GM	Kosic, Dragan	2517	1 - 0
16.3	IM	Vera Siguenas, Deivy	2499	-	GM	Blagojevic, Dragisa	2482	½ - ½
16.4		Fernandez, Fernando	2410	-	IM	Draskovic, Luka	2448	0 - 1
Bo.	17	Czech Republic (CZE)	Rtg	-	31	Uzbekistan (UZB)	Rtg	3 : 1
17.1	GM	Navara, David	2742	-	GM	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	2696	1 - 0
17.2	GM	Laznicka, Viktor	2651	-	GM	Vakhidov, Jahongir	2583	1 - 0
17.3	GM	Hracek, Zbynek	2591	-	GM	Filippov, Anton	2582	½ - ½
17.4	GM	Babula, Vlastimil	2540	-	GM	Dzhumaev, Marat	2450	½ - ½
Bo.	18	Croatia (CRO)	Rtg	-	37	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	Rtg	2 : 2
18.1	GM	Saric, Ivan	2668	-	GM	Jumabayev, Rinat	2604	½ - ½
18.2	GM	Palac, Mladen	2623	-		Utegaliyev, Azamat	2513	½ - ½
18.3	GM	Stevic, Hrvoje	2608	-	GM	Ismagambetov, Anuar	2542	½ - ½
18.4	GM	Kozul, Zdenko	2622	-	GM	Kostenko, Petr	2476	½ - ½
Bo.	21	Latvia (LAT)	Rtg	-	38	Sweden (SWE)	Rtg	2½:1½
19.1	GM	Shirov, Alexei	2673	-	GM	Grandelius, Nils	2641	½ - ½
19.2	GM	Kovalenko, Igor	2651	-	GM	Blomqvist, Erik	2545	1 - 0
19.3	GM	Neiksans, Arturs	2628	-	GM	Hillarp Persson, Tiger	2523	½ - ½
19.4	IM	Sveshnikov, Vladimir	2404	-	GM	Smith, Axel	2516	½ - ½
Bo.	57	Mongolia (MGL)	Rtg	-	55	Qatar (QAT)	Rtg	2½:1½
20.1	IM	Munkhgal, Gombosuren	2446	-	GM	Al-Modiahki, Mohamad	2550	1 - 0
20.2	GM	Gundavaa, Bayarsaikhan	2492	-	GM	AL-Sayed, Mohammed	2521	1 - 0
20.3	GM	Batchuluun, Tsegmed	2513	-	IM	Nezad, Husein Aziz	2427	½ - ½
20.4	IM	Battulga, Namkhai	2402	-	GM	Zhu, Chen	2418	0 - 1
Bo.	27	Greece (GRE)	Rtg	-	46	Iran (IRI)	Rtg	2½:1½
21.1	GM	Papaioannou, Ioannis	2631	-	GM	Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan	2566	½ - ½
21.2	GM	Mastrovasilis, Dimitrios	2601	-		Maghsoodloo, Parham	2566	½ - ½
21.3	GM	Mastrovasilis, Athanasios	2555	-	IM	Lorparizangeneh, Shahin	2478	½ - ½
21.4	GM	Halkias, Stelios	2565	-	FM	Gholami, Aryan	2435	1 - 0
Sources: Chess Mate By Roberto Hernandez Tia Belau Newspaper Music and Me By Roberto Hernandez Tia Belau Newspaper March 15, 2012 April 18, 2013 The History of Chess in Palau By Roberto Hernandez June 09, 2002- September 09, 2016