"WE FOLLOW FIDE LAWS OF CHESS, NOT YOUR LAW"
Gene Pastrana, right, shakes hand with Palau Chess Federation Secretary/Treasurer Roberto Hernandez before their official game of the 2011 Palau National Chess Championship at his Beken's Store and General Merchandise premises. Gene have at least 3 controversial recorded games involving violation of FIDE Laws of Chess. (Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
CONVERSATION WITH GENE
(ILLEGAL MOVE CONTROVERSY)
I HAVE a long conversation with Gene at 11:00 am today (Jan. 05, 2010). He described the position where he checked with his rook on 42. …Rf6+ and instead of capturing the rook, Cyril captured the bishop with 43. fxe8=Q+ and Gene captured Cyril’s king.
I showed to Gene the FIDE Laws of Chess, in Artilcle 7.4 a. & b. He’s still not convinced about that rule and said, “Cyril thought for a while before the illegal move. He should have seen it. Then I said, “Cyril is just human. Even a GM makes illegal moves sometimes. And he said that if he will lose that game, he will withdraw from the tournament and threatened not to use his previous games score so that others may gain international ranking.
He even said that I should be at the tournament site every time there is a game. I replied, “But I’m working. Do you want me to resign from my job just to be here every game?” He said, “It’s up to you”.
I gave Gene the 18-page FIDE Laws of Chess and ask him to study it especially the Article 7.4 a. & b. I also mentioned to him about his illegal move that he committed in our game on Jan. 15, 2006. I said to him that he won that game but he is the one who committed the illegal move. (See game score). He is about to be checkmated and there is no more solution even if he will give away his rook and queen. He moved his queen (in dark diagonal) to a different diagonal (white) and threatened mate. I trusted him that he will not do such thing intentionally and because I’m writing the moves despite the 30 minutes time control, I was able to identify the position where the illegal move was made. Cyril was there also when it happened.
Since then, I’m very careful when playing against him because of that incident. Cyril is also aware about it especially that Gene needed points badly. He only had 2 wins, 3 losses and 2 draws.
I asked him, ‘If I ask the opinion of Toti Abundo or Joselito Marcos, will you accept their decision? He bluntly said, “No!”
Our conversation is going nowhere so I just decided to write to Toti Abundo, Joselito Marcos and Gary Bekker. Hopefully he will be enlightened by their thoughts or opinion.
I also added that if he just resigned a hopeless position, his opponent will respect him more. He countered, “You do the same thing like last month when they are teasing you to resign a hopeless game. I said you heard it wrong. It’s Elpidio Manaligod that they are teasing and not me because I’m winning with great advantage.
He also said that, ‘You just bring this FIDE Laws of Chess now. You should give us a copy earlier so that we can review it.” I said I gave him already a copy of it and it is also published in my Chess Mate column last year. He’s very stingy to spend .65 cents for one week just to be updated with my column.
I talked to Cyril during my break time and he suggested that it’s okay for him to have a rematch. But draw is unacceptable.
While playing piano at Palau Royal Resort, I can’t concentrate to my playing because of Gene’s attitude. I’m thinking of saying to him tomorrow this: Gene, have you thought about the illegal move? What is your decision? Will you accept another match with Cyril? I will call him. If he will stick with his decision that he won that game or just a draw, then I will say to him: We cannot allow one man to break the Laws of Chess because of one game so we will let you withdraw from the tournament. You’re right about me being at the tournament site every time there is a game so we will hold the remaining games at Palau Royal Resort. And I will be handling the registration money of the tournament because it is written in the Palau Chess Federation By-Laws that the Secretary/Treasurer is the one to keep an account of all money received and expended by the PCF. It is in the Article IV, Section 3: C of PCF By-Laws.
Gene is not even an officer of Palau Chess Federation. I will ask him to return the $297.00 that he owes to PCF when he spent that money upon suffering an economic crisis last year. I think he also spent most of the registration fee of the players of 2009 Palau National Chess Championship. He admitted to me that he spent the $297.00 but he cannot pay it now because he is still in tight budget. PCF owes FIDE more than 800 euros and the money collected should be spent to pay for at least half of it and not for his own personal use.
This is the latest as of 11:30 am (January 06, 2010): I talked to Gene and his decision is to withdraw from the tournament because he cited he’s very busy. I respect his decision and just ask him that as per Artcile IV, Section 3:C of PCF By-Laws, I will be handling the money received and expended by the PCF being its Secretary/Treasurer.
All remaining games will be played at Palau Royal Resort. Players will be assisted by Paquito ‘Pax’ Suringa or Jaime Guevarra if I’m not available.
I hope this development will make Palau Chess Federation more united and law-abiding federation and chess players. I’m glad that we solve it on our own.
Roberto
Gene Pastrana (White) vs. Roberto Hernandez (Black) 2005-2006 Rapid Chess tournament 1/15/2006
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bc4 e6 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. d4 cxd4 6. Nxd4 a6 7. a3 b5 8. Ba2 Bb7 9. Qe2 Be7 10. Nf3 Nc6 11. Bg5 0-0 12. Bb1 Rc8 13. 0-0 b4 14. axb4 Nxb4 15. Re1 h6 16. Bxf6 Bxf6 17. e5 Bxf3 18. Qxf3 Bxe5 19. Qe4 Bxc3 20. bxc3 Nd5 21. Rxa6 Nxc3 22. Qf4 d5 23. Ba2 Nxa2 24. Rxa2 Rc4 25. Qg3 Qb6 26. Kh1 Rfc8 27. Rf1 Rxc2 28. Rxc2 Rxc2 29. Qh4 d4 30. Qe4 Qb2 31. Qa8+ Kh7 32. Qe4+ g6 33. Qf3 Rc7 34. Rd1 e5 35. h3 f5 36. g4 Rc3 37. Qg2 Qb3 38. Ra1 Rxh3+ 39. Kg1 fxg4 40. Rah7+ Kh8 41. Ra8+ Kg7 42. Ra7+ Kf6 43. Qc6+ Kg5 44. Qc1+ Kh5 45. Rh7 g5 46. Rg7 Qf3 47. Qg6+ (Illegal move)
Cyril Montel, Jr. (White) vs. Gene Pastrana (Black) Jan. 04, 2010 (
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6. cxd4 Bb4+ 7. Bd2 d5 8. Bxb5 dxc4 9. e5 Nxb4 10. Qa4+ Nc6 11. exf6 gxf6 12. 0-0 0-0 13. Qxc4 Ne7 14. Nc3 c6 15. Rad1 b5 16. Qd3 Bf5 17. Qd2 Kh8 18. Qh6 Ng8 19. Qf4 Be6 20. b3 Kg7 21. Ne4 Qd5 22. Nh4 Rfe8 23. Rd3 Bd7 24. Rg3+ Kf8 25. Rxg8+ Kxg8 26. Nxf6+ Kf8 27. Nxd5 cxd5 28. Qd6+ Re7 29. Re1 Rae8 30. f4 f5 31. Qh6+ Kg8 32. Rxe7 Rxe7 33. Qg5+ Kf8 34. Nxf5 Rf7 35. Qh6+ Kg8 36. Qg5+ Kf8 37. Qd8+ Be8 38. Nd6 Re7 39. f5 Re1+ 40. Kf2 Re7 41. f6 Re6 42. f7 Rf6+ 43. fxe8=Q+ (Illegal move)………
January 04, 2010
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