CHESS MISCELLA"NEWS"
Its resident musician, Roberto Hernandez, plays music from 6-9 pm at Waves Restaurant and from 9-11 pm at Breeze Bar, on the upper right of this photo.
(Photo by Jaime Guevarra)
*FIDE LAWS OF CHESS*
*1889 Game by Marco in Vienna, Asutria*
*INVITATION TO PLAY IN 2009 QUEENSTOWN CLASSIC
AND OCEANIA ZONAL CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP*
THE PALAU Chess Federation received the World Chess Federation (FIDE) Laws of Chess through its Secretary/Treasurer Roberto Hernandez. The 18-page documents cover over-the-board play.
The English text is the authentic version of the Laws of Chess, which was adopted at the 77th FIDE Congress in Dresden, Germany that coincided with the World Chess Olympiad in November 2008.
It will be coming into force on July 01, 2009. In these Laws, the words "he", "him", and "his" include "she" and "her".
In the preface of the document, it started with: The Laws of Chess cannot cover all possible situations that may arise during a game, nor can they regulate all administrative questions. Where cases are not precisely regulated by an Article of the Laws, it should be possible to reach decision by studying analogous situations which are discussed in the Laws. The Laws assume that arbiters have the necessary competence, sound judgment and absolute objectivity. Too detailed a rule might deprived the arbiter of his freedom of judgment and thus prevent him from finding the solution to a problem dictated by fairness, logic and special factors. FIDE appeals to all chess players and federations to accept this view. A member federation is free to introduce more detailed rules provided they: (a) do not conflict in any way with the official FIDE Laws of Chess, and (b) are limited to the territory of the federation concerned, (c) are not valid for any FIDE match, championship or qualifying event, or for a FIDE title or rating tournament.
The BASIC RULES OF PLAY of the document will be published little by little next issues as some of them are already feaured in the "AN INTRODUCTION TO CHESS" last month.
In 1889, at Vienna, Austria, a strong chess player only known by the name of Marco, played an unknown player with the odd of a whole rook (on the a1 square) and the pawn on a2 moved to a3.
Here are the first 17 moves and the last 3 moves will be this week's puzzle: White to move and mates in 3. Marco had the white pieces:
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6. cxd4 Bb6 7. e5 Ne4 8. Bd5 f5 9. 0-0 Ne7 10. Ba2 d5 11. exd6 nxd6 12. Ne5 h5 13. Bg5 g6 14. Nc3 c6 15. Re1 Ne4 16. Rxe4 fxe4 17. Qb3 Rf8 ....
In his email to Roberto Hernandez and Gene Pastrana on December 02, 2008, Oceania Zone President Gary Bekker asked if either of the two chess players of Palau can participate in the Queenstown Classic in New Zealand in January 2009 and/or Oceania Zonal Championship in June 20-26, 2009.
Mr. Bekker is sponsoring the accomodation and an airfare subsidy of $500.00. Hernandez asked Pastrana if he can make it and he refused due to financial constraints.
At Palau Royal Resort, if a worker completed 2 years, he is entitled to at least 17 days of paid leave and free roundtrip ticket to his/her country of origin.
Hernandez will be 2 years at PRR on June 01, 2009 and he filed for a 17-day leave on June 17-July 03, 2009. A fitting date to participate in the Oceania Zonal.
He will ask for the help of Ambassador Marino for a discount on Philippine Airlines flight to Brisbane. Currently, the airfare for Palau-Manila-Melbourne (roundtrip) is $1,700.00.
Source: Chessmade by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 13 and 15
Volume 18 Issue 12
March 22-29, 2009
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