ITALIAN TOURIST Andrea Buriani won the one-day speed (Blitz) chess tourney participated in by six players after the completion of the 4th round of the 2004 Open Chess tournament held on Sunday, August 01 at Filco Thrift Mart in Malakal sponsored and hosted by Nestor Canaria, who is also managing the adjacent Secrets Snack Bar, Internet Cafe and Gift Shop.
Buriani, 38, who is touring Palau and Yap, scored a perfect 5 points to win the half of the collected $5.00 from each player as registration fee. The other half was spent on drinks of the other participants that included 3 former champions (Eddie Grefiel, Menandro Manuel and Roberto Hernandez).
The other participants were newcomer Joel Azana and veteran Jimmy Valenzuela.
The speed chess tourney was organized to accomodate Buriani, who was available to play only for one-day event. The time control was 10 minutes for each player to finish the game. Touch move rule does not apply but after a player pressed his clock, a move became final. A player may not win via time forfeit if he didn't have enough material to checkmate his opponent. A player must always say the word "check" every time he attack his opponent's king.
It was a single round-robin where the drawn numbers fitted number one against no. 2; 3 vs. 4 and 5 vs. 6. Players who draw odd numbers played the white pieces.
The critical stage of the tilt was in the 4th round where Buriani and Manuel scored 3 straight victories. After defeating Manuel, Buriani only need to beat Valenzuela, whom he had defeated when Valenzuela's clock expired.
In the first game of the regular tournament, Ivan II Chess Computer crushed Mariano Agustin, Jr.; Hernandez clobbered Den Canaria in 65 moves of a Danish Gambit; Azana upset Jess Toldoya to make it to the Class A; Valenzuela also made it to Class A with a win over Agustin, Jr.
Edward Agravante's entry to Class A was stalled by Ivan II Chess Computer. He needs to win his last round match against Bong Alipoon to qualify; Grefiel mated Cyril Montel, Jr.; Agustin, Jr. won by default over Morton Sawaichi and Alipoon drew with Grefiel by agreement.
FINAL ROUND PAIRINGS OF CLASSIFICATION: (First name to play white) --
Agravante vs. Alipoon; Ivan II Chess Computer vs. Canaria; Sawaichi vs. Hernandez and Toldoya vs. Agustin, Jr.
After the completion of final round, tiebreak will be used to determine the remaining qualifiers. The Sonnenborn Berger and Solkoff systems of tiebreak will be applied.
Half of the participants are suggesting that a $15.00 additional fee for Class A qualifiers will be added for cash prizes of the top 4 finishers and Ivan II Chess Computer will only compete in Class B.
The tournament chairman (Hernandez) will bring all the chess books that he has on the final day of classification. Members of Knights and Rooks Chess Club can borrow those books for 2 weeks for free. Non-members can borrow a book for $2.00 for 2 weeks.
Source: Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
August 06-13, 2004
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