2007-2008 OPEN RAPID
CHESS TOURNAMENT
November 18, 2007-
February 10, 2008
Venue: Jean’s
Boutique & Store
FINAL STANDINGS
Players Win Loss Draw
Total
- ANTONIO VILLA 23 4 3 24.5
- MANUEL NEDIC 23 4 3 24.5
- CYRIL MONTEL, JR. 21 5 4 23
- ROBERTO HERNANDEZ 21 7 2 22
- GENE PASTRANA 15 12 3 16.5
- DENNIS LARA 14 12 4 16
- MICHAEL MERCADO 11 9 10 16
- JOSE OMEGA 12 11 7 15.5
- MENANDRO MANUEL 11 10 9 15.5
- CRAIG DITTRICH 13 15 2 14
- PAUL GARCIA 13 16 1 13.5
- ANDRES MESTIZO III 7 13 10 12
- JAIME GUEVARRA 9 6 5 11.5
- DENNIS GONZALES 7 15 8 11
- DANNY DANDOY 1 20 9 5.5
- JOEVEN
DELOS
Time Control -- 30 minutes for each player to finish the game.
Tournament Organizer -- Roberto Hernandez
Tournament Chief Arbiter -- Roberto Hernandez
Deputy Arbiter -- Eugenio Pastrana
Source: The History Of Chess In Palau
by Roberto Hernandez
Part 18
November 18, 2007
by Roberto Hernandez
Part 18
November 18, 2007
THE TOP three finishers of Palau Royal Resort rating chess tournament will join the year-ending rapid chess tournament to start on Sunday, November 18 at Jean's Boutique and Store.
Palau's number 4 Roberto Hernandez, the PRR champion, Dennis Lara and Jaime Guevarra confirmed their participation in the double round-robin of active chess.
They will test their mettle against top 3 seeds Menandro Manuel, Jose Omega and Cyril Montel, Jr. together with the fast-rising and blitz chess specialist Tony Villa and Palau's 1st National Master Manny Nedic.
Venue host Gene Pastrana showed a lot of improvement as he swept Hernandez 4-0 in a 4-game practice of blitz chess on Sunday, Nov. 11 as the above-mentioned players, except Manuel, were present and practicing for the preparation of the tough field of internationally rated players.
Invitation to participate was also extended to other top finishers of PRR chess tilt. Nino Flores, Paul Garcia and Zaldy Ranopa, the 4th, 5th and 6th place finishers respectively, were invited with Garcia's entry will depend on his transportation problem.
Arnel Pama, who finished 7th, who will come back from emergency leave on November 14, will be invited also.
Inactive French Defence specialist Danny Dandoy and newcomer Michael Mercado of Aqua water would like to join.
The format of the tournament is 30 minutes for each player to finish the game. Touch move rules will be applied and the player's move become official when he lets go off the piece that he touches.
Writing chess notation is not required. If a player had the white pieces in his first game against a certain player, he will have the black pieces in their 2nd round match.
There will be a registration fee of $10.00 where half will be used as cash prize i the organizers can't find sponsors.
The Sonnenborn Berger system of tiebreak will be applied if there is a tie for the top 5 spots.
Hernandez will act also as arbiter and in his absence, Gene Pastrana will take over.
The awarding of trophies, medals and cash prizes of the recently concluded PRR rating chess tourney will tentatively held also on Sunday, Nov. 18 with Mr. Allan Tuppil, the Food & Beverage Manager of PRR, also donating the chicken for barbecue. He sponsored the trophy, 4 medals and $100.00 cash prize of the event.
For more information about the coming tournament, please call Roberto Hernandez at 488-2000 ext. 114 or Gene Pastrana at 488-4640.
Source: Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 13 & 15
Volume 17
November 16-22, 2007
In his first game against Dennis Lara, the 1st runner-up in the Palau Royal Resort rating chess tournament, he survived a relentless attack when Lara made a blunder.
After a few hours, he played against venue host Gene Pastrana where he got 2 rooks and a bishop against Pastrana's queen.
He is in extreme time pressure when he mated his adversary and jumped in joy and went wild as he became the early leader of the double round-robin event.
He was surprised to learn that Pastrana can't beat him by time forfeit because Pastrana didn't have enough materials to force mate and if his clock expires, Pastrana could draw.
After checking the clock, Dittrich had only 20 seconds remaining in his clock.
In the 3rd game of the day, 4th seed Roberto Hernandez couldn't sustain his initiative due to time pressure and lost to blitz chess specialist Tony Villa in more than 50 moves of Danish Gambit.
Top seed Menandro Manuel suffered another 1st round loss to 3rd seed Cyril Montel, Jr. while 2nd seed Jose Omega was beaten by 5th seed NM Manny Nedic.
And in the last game of the day, Villa clobbered Montel, Jr. to share the lead with Dittrich.
On Saturday, November 24, Jaime Guevarra will play whoever is available from 10am as he has to work at 1pm.
Lara, Arnel Pama, Paul Garcia and Hernandez will play whoever are available from 1:30-5pm.
Omega can come at PRR as visitor and play an official game against any available player during his free time and players from PRR can play at Dormitory 1 to maximize their playing hours against the top players of Palau.
Manuel and other players can do the same and PRR players will appreciate it.
Danny Dandoy and Michael Mercado of Aqua Water didn't show up in the opening day and they still have time to catch up in the 2nd week.
Villa will have a Christmas break vacation on December 16 and if the tournament is not yet finish at that time, it will be resumed on the 2nd week of January 2008.
Tia Belau Newspaper
Page 13
Volume 17
November 23-29, 2007
MAJOR upsets were scored in the 2nd week of rapid chess tilt held on November 22, 24 and 25 at Jean's Boutique and Store that left no player undefeated except Paul Garcia, who hadn't played a game yet due to schedule conflict.
Venue host Gene Pastrana, who totes a 2-3-1 win-loss-draw record, scored a whole point over blitz chess expert Tony Villa (4-1-1) but lost to top seed Menandro 'Boy' Manuel (2-2-2) on the eve of November 22, a non-playing day.
Players who are available on any day can play to those who are available to avail of the most flexible schedule in the world. Villa and Manuel drew their game that night.
On Saturday, November 24, 2nd seed Jose Omega (2-1-1) drew also with Manuel and swept Koror State Legal Counsel Craig Dittrich (3-6-2-1), who played already 10 games so far and scored the first major upset of the day over Palau's first National Master Manny Nedic (2-1-0).
In disbelief, Nedic left the tournament site without talking to anybody but he clobbered his fellow NM Manuel earlier in the day.
Fourth seed Roberto Hernandez nipped Dittrich in more than 40 moves of Danish Gambit when the latter's time elapsed with an extra 15 minutes odd.
On the official day of the tourney, November 25, Michael Mercado (2-2-0) of Aqua Water, won 2 and lost 2 games of his first serious tournament participation.
He upset Pastrana and Dittrich in both come-from-behind fashion where Pastrana was ahead in material while Dittrich overlooked some simple moves while ahead by 2 pawns but in extreme time pressure and finally lost by time forfeit.
Mercado then succumbed to Hernandez in another Danish Gambit game and to 3rd seed Cyril Montel, Jr. (3-1-1), who was held to a draw by Dittrich in the last game of the day.
Jaime Guevarra, the 2nd runner-up in the Palau Royal Resort rating chess tourney, played 3 games on Sunday morning and lost all of them.
He showed strong resistance against Villa in their first game but his inexperience in the endgame cost him both games while in his game against Pastrana, he missed some strong continuation.
Dennis Lara (1-3-1) played 4 games on Sunday afternoon. He avenged his 1st week loss to Dittrich but failed to extract full point over Pastrana when he blundered away his queen that have them with both king remaining on the board.
He lost to Villa and Montel, Jr. while Manuel dealt Dittrich his 6th loss of the event.
Arnel Pama withdrew from participating due to his father's heart attack while Danny Dandoy didn't show up yet.
PRR players will play whoever is available on Saturday morning from 10:00 - 12:00 noon.
Source: Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Page 13
Volume 17
November 30 - December 06, 2007
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