With Palau Chess Team to Istanbul, Turkey Chess Olympiad now complete with the addition of Elizabeth Manuel, the other members ---Roberto Hernandez, Menandro Manuel, Tito Cabunagan, Bernardo Garcia, Mohammad Manik Hossain and team captain Jamie Kenmure of Australia, can now concentrate on their game to get Palau its first FIDE title.
(Photo by Menandro Manuel)
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JAMIE KENMURE, the Rating Officer of Palau Chess Federation and the Team Captain of Palau’s open chess team to the 2012 World Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey have registered the Palau Chess Team and he will be also the Head of Delegation and Roberto Hernandez will be FIDE Delegate. He also registered himself and Hernandez as journalists/press to have more mobility in all accessible places for players with press identification.
After registering the team, he is now on discussion with the members about the board order for the best interest of getting a maximum of 3 FIDE titles by applying a good strategy in arranging the board order.
The current board order is this: Board 1 is Tito Cabunagan, Board 2 is Mohammad Manik Hossain, Board 3 is Bernardo Garcia, Board 4 is Menandro Manuel and reserve is Elizabeth Manuel, Menandro’s wife.
Hernandez emailed Jamie about the weak line-up with Elizabeth probably can’t play a single game and all of the top 4 boards will have to play 11 straight games without relief. Hernandez suggests that Elizabeth be the Delegate and he will be Board 1, Tito at Board 2, Bernard at 3, Menandro at 4 and Manik as reserve.
BUT JAMIE GOT A BETTER IDEA – Elizabeth as Delegate and Hernandez as reserve!
With this idea, Tito will be Board 1, Manik at 2, Bernard at 3 and Menandro at 4. Suddenly, because of this idea, the proper strategy of board order puts a great chance of Palau acquiring its first FIDE title if Menandro, Bernard and Roberto scored 6 points in 9 games to get an automatic FIDE Master title. If nobody made it, 4.5 points in 9 games (or 50% performance) is good enough for a Candidate Master title, which is a title already in itself.
Hernandez will suggest to Jamie this round-by-round board order chart: ROUND 1 – 1. Tito 2. Manik 3. Bernard 4. Roberto (Menandro-rest) ROUND 2 – 1. Tito 2. Manik 3. Bernard 4. Menandro (Roberto – rest) ROUND 3 – 1. Manik 2. Bernard 3. Menandro 4. Roberto (Tito – rest) ROUND 4—1. Tito 2. Bernard 3. Menandro 4. Roberto (Manik – rest) ROUND 5 – 1. Tito 2. Manik 3. Bernard 4. Menandro (Roberto – rest) ROUND 6 – 1. Manik 2. Bernard 3. Menandro 4. Roberto (Tito – rest) ROUND 7 – 1. Tito 2. Bernard 3. Menandro 4. Roberto (Manik – rest) ROUND 8 – 1. Manik 2. Bernard 3. Menandro 4. Roberto (Tito– rest) ROUND 9 – 1. Tito 2. Manik 3. Bernard 4. Robert (Menandro –rest) ROUND 10 – 1. Tito 2. Manik 3. Menandro 4. Roberto (Bernard – rest) ROUND 11 – 1. Tito 2. Manik 3. Menandro 4. Roberto (Bernard – rest).
This board order enabled Menandro, Roberto, Bernard and Manik to have played 9 games each while Tito have 8 games played for a total of 44 games. Tito can have 9 games played with Manik’s games played been reduced to 8. This chart can also be changed depending on Palau team opponents as a strategy.
Menandro agreed with Elizabeth being the Delegate. He also wants to make sure that higher rated players being assigned at lower board is allowed. It is allowed long time ago. Even in team chess tournaments in Philippines, highest rated players are assigned at lower boards to secure wins.
After some thoughts, Hernandez realized more weaknesses in the above line-up and decided to keep the original line-up of Hernandez at Board 1, Tito at 2, Bernard at 3, Menandro at 4 and Manik as reserve. Manik’s games might be limited especially among the weaker teams to secure some points for Menandro.
Likewise, being board 1 player might not happen again in the future so Hernandez will take this opportunity to the max. Someday he might be proud to himself that he became the 144th best player in an Olympiad, which thousands of chess players might not even have a chance to achieve.
Source: Chess Mate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 10 - 11
Volume 21 Issue 31
May 21, 2012
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