(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
Thursday, September 19, 2013
(597) PHOTOS (7TH WEEK OF 2013 PNCC)
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
(596) TIME IS RUNNING OUT; LARA WITHDRAWS (TBN-Oct. 20-26, 2008)
Lara's governor relative lost the election in 2007 and the chances of getting his sponsorship finally ended his chance to participate in Chess Olympics held every 2 years. He will try again on the next one with more preparation.
According to an email received by Jan Berglund from Mr. Modrozynski in Dresden, the German Embassy in Manila knows everything about the members of Palau Chess team and is just awaiting for the application as soon as possible.
The finances of the airplane tickets is not yet finalize and Mr. Berglund is still hoping for his last try for a new sponsor from three sources.
The members of the team are Board 1 Menandro Manuel of Surangel and Sons Company, Board 2 Manuel Nedic of PTC, Board 3 Roberto Hernandez, musician of Palau Royal Resort, Board 4 Cyril Montel, Jr. of PPR and reserve Gene Pastrana of Jean's Boutique and Store.
The sponsorship of their airplane tickets will be the deciding factor of the first ever participation of Palau abroad.
If the airfares cannot be solved, there is no point in spending money on asking for visas and Mr. Berglund suggested to go on with the preparations for visas up to the point where money has to be spent to be fully prepared to act quickly if all of a sudden he gets an OK from somewhere.
In the resumption of 2008 Palau National Chess Championship, Manuel scored another full point after defeating Mohammad Manik Hossain in their game last Saturday, October 11 at Jean's Boutique.
THE MOVES:
White: Mohammad Manik Hossain (108)
Black: Menandro Manuel (1942)
1. d4 Nf3 2. f3 d5 3. e3 e6 4. Bd2 c5 5. Ne2 Nc6 6. Bc3 Bd6
7. g3 c4 8. Bg2 c5 9. f4 b5 10. a3 Ne4 11. Bxe4 dxe4 12. d5 Ne7 13. Qd4 Nf5 14.
Qxe4 exd5 15. Qf3 Bc5 16. Nd4 Qe7 17. Re1 Re8 18. Nxf5 Bxf5 19. Nd2 Rad8 20.
Kg2 Bxc2 21. Qg4 f6 22. Bd4 a5 23. Nf2 Be4 24. Kf2 Bxd4 25. Nxd4 b4 26. h4 Rc8
27. h5 h6 28. axb4 axb4 29. f5 Ra8 30. Nc6 Qb7 31. Nd4 c3 32. bxc3 bxc3 33. Qe2
Qb2 34. Rac1 Bd3 35. Qxb2 cxb2 36. Rd1 Be4 37. Ne2 Rec8 38. g4 Rab8 39. Ng3
Rc2+ 40. Kf1 Bf3 41. Rb1 Rbc8 42. Rxb2 Rxb2 43. Ne2 Rcc2 44. Kf2 Bxe2 45. e4
dxe4 46. Kd3 Bxg4 47. Kxe4 Re2+ 48. Rxe2 Rxe2+ 49. Kf4 Bxh5 50. Kg3 Re5 51. Kf2
Be8 0-1
The much-awaited of Manuel and Hernandez was postponed again due to schedule conflict.
Source: Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 13 & 14
Volume 17
October 20-26, 2008
(595) TRYING HIS BEST (TBN-Oct. 13-19, 2008)
THE captain of the Palau Chess Team, Jan-Olav Berglund of Sweden, that will participate in the 2008 World Chess Olympiad in Dresden, Germany on Nov. 12-25 is trying his best to find sponsorship for Palau's first participation in international chess competition abroad.
However, there is a bad timing now. The fall of the world economy makes it difficult for him to get sponsorship but he still continue to persuade Continental Airlines, World Chess Federation (FIDE), International Olympic Committee and others to contribute some.
Roughly, each member of the team needs $2,000.00 to cover the flight cost and the exchange rate of SEK (Swedish currency) used to be 6 to a dollar and it's now 7.10 to a dollar and still unstable because of the trend.
He is asking the team members Menandro Manuel, Manny Nedic, Roberto Hernandez, Cyril Montel, Jr., Gene Pastrana and Dennis Lara to chip into the pot.
He will cancel his trip to Palau before the Olympics to put the money into the pot.
He even asks for other chess enthusiasts that are not among the selected ones to chip in.
He and his wife Bessie will shoulder their own accommodation in Germany to give Lara the opportunity to sleep with the team of six.
He found one company that is willing to sell some travel insurance that have a good coverage and some flight tickets that would cut down on transit visa costs so that flying into Schengen on the 12th of November and leave on the 25th would cut down accommodation costs for extra days.
Late last night, October 09, he sent an urgent email to Hernandez that a new opportunity for part sponsorship has turned up.
He needs to talk to someone at Palau National Olympic Committee and he can't find their telephone number.
Hernandez immediately sent him the tel. numbers of the top people in PNOC: Frank Kyota and Baklai Temengil.
Some members of the team are losing hope now that they can not make it in time as the visa will take 2 weeks to be issued.
If it really meant to be, by the grace of God, things will get better.
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 13 & 15
Volume 17
October 13-19, 2008
(594) INTENSE TRAINING FOR THE OLYMPIAD (TBN-Oct. 06-12, 2008)
The players are still preparing their employers certification of letting them go to the 2008 World Chess Olympiad in Dresden, Germany on November 12-25, 2008.
It's one of the paper needed to obtain Schengen visa for Board 1 Menandro Manuel of Surangel and Sons Company, Board 2 Manny Nedic of PTC, Board 3 Roberto Hernandez of Palau Royal Resort, Board 4 Cyril Montel, Jr. of PPR, reserve Gene Pastrana of Jean's Boutique and Dennis Lara of Palau Royal Resort, who will participate in the collateral tournaments parallel to the Olympiad.
2004 Champion Jess Toldoya practices blitz chess with Manuel and Hernandez on October 01 in the afternoon.
Nedic and Pastrana joined the chess practices while Hernandez is sharing with them the email correspondence of Jan Berglund. He is the Swedish International Arbiter (IA)/Coach/Trainer and Delegate of Palau Chess Federation to the Olympiad.
Hernandez also regularly practices with Ivan II Chess Computer, with a rating of 2000 (USCF). Also against a strong chess program from the laptop of Arnel Pama, a former worker at PRR and a participant in the 2008 Palau National Chess Championship.
Hernandez' match against Manuel on Sunday was postponed when the latter didn't show up at 2:30pm.
With the official invitation letter from the 38th Chess Olympiad being given to each player, the certification might be finished in time.
THE LETTER STATED:
Dear Mr. Jan Berglund,
After the Chess Federation of Palau has registered their participants of the 38th Chess Olympiad in Dresden, Germany through our on-line registration tool, the Organizing Committee has the honor of inviting the registered persons (see attached list) to this unique chess tournament.
The Chess Olympiad will take place from 12 to 25 November 2008. We as the Organizers will provide full board and accommodation to the players and captains on one of our selected hotels.
Please apply for the required visas in due time to the respective German Embassy or Consular Section. All necessary information about the visa application you will find by using the following link: http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/diplo/en/WillcommeninD/EinreiseUndAufenhalt/Visa-bestimmungen.html
Yours sincerely,
Jorn Torsten Verleger
Dr. Dick Jordan
Managing Director Schacholympiade 2008 Chairman
The above-mentioned six players names were listed with passports info and their date of birth.
Source: Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 13 & 15
Volume 17
October 06-12, 2008
(593) CHESS OLYMPICS BOUND PLAYERS SEEK PRESS ACCREDITATION (Sept. 22-28, 2008)
TO GIVE certain advantages in all venues of the 2008 World Chess Olympiad in Dresden, Germany, the Palau Chess Team is urged by its Delegate/Coach/Trainer to have press accreditation in submitting their final roster of players.
A Palauan Chess Newsletter will be created to be issued by Palau Chess Federation to its members. And all members can be contributors to all newspapers in Palau: Tia Belau, Palau Horizon and Island Times.
Since Roberto Hernandez is writing in Tia Belau since 2002, he will be contributing all his reports to Tia Belau.
Accreditation card holders are given free street-car rides in Dresden, to and from the venue/hotels and don't have to pay Euro 9.50/day to get entry in the venues.
Other members of the team are Menandro 'Boy' Manuel, a surveyor at Surangel's, will handle Board 1. Manny Nedic of PTC, is Board 2; Hernandez, the musician of Palau Royal Resort, will be assigned at Board 3; Board 4 will be Cyril Montel, Jr., landscaper at Palau Pacific Resort; and reserve player is Gene Pastrana, sales and marketing manager of Jean's Boutique and Store.
Dennis Lara, a cook at PRR, has arrange private accommodation in Dresden on his own and will participate first in Asian Chess Championship in Iran slated to start in October 22-29, 2008.
He is expected to participate in other European tournaments while waiting for the biennial Chess Olympiad where he is playing in collateral tournaments parallel to the Olympics.
Jan Berglund is Palau's Team Captain/Delegate/FIDE Committee member (computer/Press FIDE Press card/USTV.
His wife, Bessie Rave is Councelor/Press (USTV) and has arranged her private accommodation in Dresden on her own.
She was also with Jan in the 2006 World Chess Olympiad in Torino, Italy where Palau is already eligible to participate. But due to financial constraints they were not able to send a chess team.
Source: Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 13 & 15
Volume 17
September 22-28, 2008
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
(592) CYRIL, TITO, ROBERTO STRUGGLE (Sept. 09, 2013)
After defeating 6th seed Paquito Suringa, Jr. in the Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church of Christ) premises, Rustum Cabuso, right, clobbered Dennis Gonzales on Sunday, September 01 at Bethlehem Park and 2nd seed Roberto Hernandez, left, on Sept. 05 at INC again. He's now trailing Jose Celiz in the standings of the Top 12 Division of 2013 PNCC. (Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
CYRIL, TITO, ROBERTO STRUGGLE
THE 5th week of the 2013 Palau National Chess
Championship showed how deep is the Top 12 Division with the top 3 players of
Palau (Cyril, Roberto and Tito) suffering setbacks after setbacks.
The
first to fall was 2nd seed NM, NA Roberto Hernandez, who was upset
by Jeff Balbalosa in 52 moves of Pirc Defence where Hernandez blundered on the
45th move and let his 2-pawn advantage slipped away and when another
blunder capture occurred on the 51st move, he’s staring at an
unstoppable mate in one and resigned in frustration.
Days
later, Jeff attributed the loss to Roberto’s not focus to the whole game
because every time that there is a new game to start, he stands up to give the
players score sheets, pens, set the time clock, take a photo before they start
their games. Roberto is not focus also to the game when he played Dennis
Gonzales in the 3rd week but he luckily won that game.
It
happens also during the 2012 PNCC where Roberto is also the Chief Arbiter.
During his game against Tito, there’s a phone call from Angie Parrado asking if
there are opponents for her and her 2 daughters. While texting her back,
Roberto’s clock is running. Tito didn’t even bother to stop the clock in
recognition of Roberto’s doing all the jobs of an arbiter, organizer and
player.
It
also happened to his game against CM Bernardo Garcia and he lost those games to
them. Only Remy Mingo in the 2002 All-Filipino Chess Tournament bothered to
disregard the clock because Roberto is doing a lot of things during a
tournament where he is also a participant.
Roberto
has 2 Deputy Arbiters in this tourney – Garcia and Gonzales but they are also
playing so Roberto really has to do it all on his own. Next time, he will stop
his clock when attending to other players’ needs.
Top
seed Cyril Tomas Montel, Jr. suffered his 2nd straight loss to Nilo
de Jesus in a marathon 72 moves of Giocco Piano where the former blundered away
a piece in the middle game. De Jesus cautiously held on to his advantage of a
king and 2 queens against Cyril’s king and a pawn.
CM
Garcia likewise lost in the 5th week to 4th seed Jose
Celiz in 67 moves of English Opening where Garcia had 2 rooks against a queen
of Celiz, who is now the surprise leader of their division with 3.5 points out
of 4 games.
Celiz is followed by Rustum
Cabuso with 3 straight wins after clobbering Hernandez in a special game held
at Iglesia Ni Cristo on Thursday evening from 11:30pm-3:15 am, where Hernandez
is ahead by a knight in exchange of 3 pawns. With Cabuso’s queen out of action,
a mistake in the capture allowed Cabuso’s queen to be active again and forced
Hernandez’ resignation after 52 moves of Danish Gambit.
National
Master Tito Cabunagan won over Eugenio Pastrana earlier but lost to Dennis
Gonzales in their 2nd game of the day in 47 moves of Sicilian
Defence. It was Gonzales’ first win in 5 games afterlosing earlier to Cabuso in
another marathon 78 moves of Queen’s Gambit Declined.
In
the Reserve Division, Eugene Labarda became the first player of this tourney to
score 4 points after drubbing Glen Navarosa in 54 moves of Irregular Opening.
Navarosa is still scoreless.
Labarda
is followed by the undefeated Jun Mahor (3-0) and the surging Remrel Dizon
(3-1) after he touted Alfredo Pacenos, Jr. in 38 moves of French Defence.
The
special
game on Saturday at 8am of Celiz vs. Paquito Suringa, Jr. was reset on
Sunday after Paquito’s time schedule was suddenly changed to morning
shift. He
can play now from 2pm onwards. Hernandez and Pastrana will play their
game at
the latter’s residence on Saturday at 2pm in which Roberto scored his
3rd win by outlasting Pastrana in 43 moves of Dutch Defence.
Pastrana and Cabuso are playing as of press time deadline.
Cabuso texted Roberto and said he lost his game against Pastrana. Roberto replied, "It's okay. Seven more games to be played." (Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
While playing piano at Waves Restaurant of Palau Royal Resort, Pastrana texted Roberto confirming his victory. Roberto congratulated him and said it's Rustum's first loss. (Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
In my casual conversation with Rustum Sept. 16, he complain about Gene's unsportsmanlike conduct during this game. That Gene is lazy enough not to write their moves. When it's Rustum's turn to move, Gene will borrow his score sheet and copy the moves. Cyril suggested to him that he must not let Gene copy it and must put his score sheet face down so that he cannot copy it. Gene is known to commit a lot of unsportsmanlike conduct since 2005. BAD HABITS DIE HARD. (Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
Source: Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 9 & 10
Volume 22
Issue 72
September 09, 2013
Monday, September 16, 2013
(591) PHOTOS (Week 6- 2013 Palau National Chess Championship)
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| Rustum Cabuso, left, is leading the Top 12 Division with 4-1 win-loss record. One of his victories is over Paquito Suringa, Jr., right, in a game played at the premises of Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church of Christ) on August 22, 2013. (Photo by Roberto Hernandez) |
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
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