Rey Lapuz, the Christmas blitz chess festival champion, showed up early in the morning and played blitz chess with Tony Villa.
He was offered a job in Dubai and will be leaving in March. He will not participate in the current tournament that will last till April.
The organizers decided to have only one division with the same time format of 90 minutes for each player to finish the game with 20 seconds increment per move. It will be a double round-robin event.
The first game was played between Villa and the combacking Joel Azana, who didn't finish his last remaining games of 2006 Rapid Chess tournament.
With the position equal with rook and pawns ending, Azana missed a drawing line move that will have his king opposing his opponent's king.
The last tricky move that he played was countered by Villa to avoid stalemate.
The game lasted 66 moves of a Modern Defence with Azana having only 3 minutes left in his clock.
The 2nd game featured Azana and Koror State Legal Counsel Craig Dittrich.
The waiting game was equal till the 23rd move when Dittrich blundered away his bishop and through simplification, Azana scored his first win when Dittrich resigned to stop the agony of continuing to play a hopeless position.
All players are requested to annotate their game in whatever notations they choose.
Dittrich wrote his moves in English or descriptive notation while everybody else is doing it in Algebraic notation which is internationally being used.
Anselmo Idol practiced writing chess notations while playing a practice game with Roberto Hernandez.
It slows down Idol's game but he still plays good till the end of the unfinished practice game.
The tournament is still open to those who would like to catch up and they have to play at least 2 games and come at 1 pm.
Source:
Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Page 11
Volume 17
February 02-08, 2007
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