To accomodate Omega's few hours availability, a special time format was agreed at 30 minutes fo Dittrich and 15 minutes for Omega to finish the game.
They are not required to annotate their game anymore and in the endgame when Omega had the exchange advantage, he underestimated a complex drawn endgame and lost the initiative and resigned.
Dittrich picked up another victory by default over Anselmo Idol, who didn't show up and lost 3 more of his games and drew with Joel Azana via default draw when the latter didn't show up also.
In the first game of the day, Sunday, April 22 at Jean's Boutique and Store, 4th seed Roberto Hernandez clobbered newcomer Emmie Buyacao in 31 moves of Pirc Defence to set up a climactic final round clash with Tony Villa for the title.
Villa made short work of Buyacao in just 14 moves of French Defence when Buyacao blundered away his queen but got his first win by default over Idol.
With a default win over Idol, National Master Manny Nedic now totes a 5-1-2 win-loss-draw slate and will forge a 3-way tie for the championship if Hernandez will beat Villa and he will prevail over venue host Gene Pastrana.
The 6th seed Pastrana was the other recipient of default win from Idol, whose last 4 games will also be awarded to Villa, Hernandez, Cyril Montel, Jr. and Omega if he will not show up on Sunday, April 29.
After a few weeks rest, another tournament will start. This time, it will be sponsored by The Filipino Community In Palau (TFCP) with a roundtrip airfare from Palau to Manila as the champion's purse.
Its Vice President Jess Toldoya has already worked out the format which will be a Swiss system and every game must be completed before the start of next round.
The highlight tournament of this year will be the 2007 Palau Invitational Chess Championship which will be known as the 2nd Ambassador Marino Cup.
The Philippine Ambassador Ramoncito Marino pledged the cash prize for the event during the awarding ceremony of the successful 2006 PICC.
Australian Gary Bekker will co-sponsor the prizes and he will invite more foreign players.
Source: Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Page 13
Volume 17
April 27-May 03, 2007
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