Edwin Eti, right, receives his certificate of appreciation for participating in the 2005 Rapid Chess tournament from Roberto Hernandez, Chairman of Knights and Rooks Chess Club. Eti won the 1st runner-up plum and is now the solo leader of National Chess Championship. He recently won the last 2 editions of blitz chess competition. (Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
FIFTH seed Jimmy Valenzuela dealt Edwin Eti his first loss of the tournament in the 7th round of National Chess Championship held Sunday, April 30 at Jean's Boutique and Store premises.
Mr. Manny Kimpo of Pinoy Express Remittance (Palau) is the sponsor of 6 trophies and $100.00 brilliancy prize.
Valenzuela won the exchange, a bishop for a rook, on the 18th move and held on to his advantage until the endgame where he penetrated the 7th rank with his rooks instead of gobbling up Eti's pawns.
Valenzuela set up a tricky attack on the b pawn and after Eti defended the pawn with his rook, Valenzuela mated him and Eti's march to the championship was halted in 38 moves of Sicilian Defence.
Earlier in the afternoon, Valenzuela lost to 4th seed Roberto Hernandez in 31 moves of Danish Gambit.
Valenzuela deviated from the usual book line moves and resigned after his king and rook was forked by Hernandez' knight.
Palaun bet Morton Sawaichi collected his 3rd win in more than 80 moves of Queen's Pawn Game.
Valenzuela stopped writing his moves when he lost his queen but were able to have Sawaichi squeeze out every inch of his strategy and tactics to convert a drawn endgame into a win.
Sawaichi stopped annotating the game on the 60th move to concentrate more on the game.
The crowd congratulated him for his first ever win over Valenzuela in 6 tournament games. His best result against him was a draw in the final round of 2005 Open Chess tournament.
Top seed Menandro Manuel was also defeated by 6th seed Manny Nedic in 64 moves of Sicilian Defence. Nedic was in his top form and put Manuel on the defensive most of the time. He won 2 minor pieces in the middlegame. He gave back one in exchange for 2 pawns and a won endgame.
Manue should have resigned 20 moves earlier but opted to resume play hoping that Manny will make a blunder.
Nedic scored another point over winless and venue host Gene Pastrana in 24 moves of Sicilian Defence.
Pastrana bounced back from defeat and trounced the other Palauan bet Francis 'Sno' Temaungil in 32 moves of Sicilian Defence.
Temaungil lost his 3rd straight to Jess Toldoya in 25 moves of another Sicilian Defence.
Toldoya informed the players that former World Chess Federation (FIDE) President Florencio Campomanes will come to Palau on May 11 and will stay at Palau Royal Resort for 4 days.
He will cooordinate with the officers of Palau Chess Federation and Knights and Rooks Chess Club on how chess is doing in Palau.
He also emailed Hernandez about Palau's participation in the Torino, Italy World Chess Olympiad this month.
Election of FIDE President and Oceania Zone President will coincide with the Olympiad.
Gary Bekker, the Oceania Zone President, is running for re-election.
PCF would like to know if they can to know if they can vote through email even without representative to the Olympiad.
Campomanes might know the answer to this as he is pushing for Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the incumbent FIDE President, for re-election.
He made a long distance call to Hernandez and even played 2 sets of tennis game with Gary Bekker in which Campomanes won both sets to the surprise of Bekker because Campomanes is very old and still beaten him.
Eti won the 7-player blitz chess tourney held after the Nedic vs. Manuel match.
THE PLAYERS AND THEIR WIN-LOSS-DRAW RECORD WERE 1. Eti (8-1-3) 2. Manuel (7-3-2) 3. Hernandez (6-4-2) 4. Cyril Montel, Jr. (5-7-0) 5. Nedic (4-6-2) 6. Pastrana (3-4-5) and Valenzuela (1-9-2).
The last game between Hernandez and Eti was not played because it has no bearing game.
SOME INTERESTING NOTES ABOUT THE TILT:
Eti's only loss was from Manuel, who was swept by Hernandez; Pastrana committed 2 illegal moves against his 2 games with Hernandez. The first one cost him half point in a winning position.
Valenzuela's only victory in 12 games was against Hernandez.
Solution to last week's puzzle: 1. Rd6+!! Kxd6 2. e5+ Kc6 3. d5 mate.
Source:
Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
May 05-12, 2006
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