He upset Paul Garcia by employing the same tactic that Garcia used in trouncing current 2nd placer Nino Flores.
Pax have been patient all game long and outlasted Garcia in a marathon 70 moves of Giocco Piano. He followed it up with a 52 moves error-filled French Defence game with Arnold Rivera where the latter captured with the wrong piece that will give him the advantage of a queen.
He became overconfident with his game against Zaldy Ranopa with overwhelming material and positional advantage and lost instead to snap a rare two-game winning streak.
He clobbered Erick Ventinilla in 34 moves of King's Pawn Opening in the middle of his 10-day annual leave that gives him fresh mind and more concentration to the game.
OTHER RESULTS OF LAST WEEK'S GAMES:
Flores upended Arnel Pama in 38 moves of Bishop Opening; Ranopa drubbed Ventinilla in 37 moves of Danish Gambit where he also won over Manny Dulay in 46 moves of another Bishop Opening; Ventinilla and Flores nipped Randy Sioson in 45 moves of Ruy Lopez and in 22 moves of Bishop Opening respectively; the ever-improving Dulay outwitted Suringa in 45 moves of yet another Bishop Opening, the most widely used defence in this tourney at 7 times this week; Laurence Abuton took the measure of Sioson in 37 moves of Petroff Defence.
Top seed Roberto Hernandez played 3 games at a time and defeated them all with Dulay blundering in the middle game where he should have captured Hernandez' queen with his knight plus a check that would have given him an enormous advantage. He lost instead in 32 moves of Sicilian Defence (Alapin Variation).
Abuton lost in just 20 moves of King' Gambit Accepted while Ventinilla left his bishop undefended and lost in 51 moves of another Sicilian Defence.
Ranopa couldn't sustain his advantage and accepted the draw with Abraham 'Abe' Francisco in 49 moves of Bishop Opening; Dennis Lara scored a point over Paxin 61 moves of Nimzo-Indian Defence (Classical Variation); Flores overcame a blunder of his own and beat Pax in 28 moves of Bishop Opening; Pax bounced back from defeat and demolished Sioson in 30 moves of King's Pawn Opening; Pama overlooked a neat rook sacrifice of Abuton to draw by stalemate in 43 moves of Two Knights Defence;
Pama touted Dulay in 38 moves of another King's Pawn Opening; Garcia made short work on Dulay to win in just 15 moves of Sicilian Defence and snapped Flores' 11-game winning streak with a victory in 36 moves of Bishop Opening; Abuton outlasted Dulay in 43 moves of Scotch Four Knights Defence but lost to Robert "Tube Ice" Tubice.
Hernandez seized the lead again after conquering Ivan II "The Conqueror" Chess Computer in 39 moves of Benko Gambit and Pama toppled Ventinilla in the last game of the week in 26 moves of Reti Opening.
The champion of this tourney will receive a trophy and $50.00 from Mr. Allan Tuppil, the Food and Beverage Manager of PRR.
The 2nd and 3rd placer will get $30.00 and $20.00 respectively while the 4th and 5th placer will get a medal each.
STANDINGS OF PLAYERS AND THEIR WIN-LOSS-DRAW SLATE:
1. Roberto Hernandez (17-2-0) 2. Nino Flores (15-3-0) 3. Laurence Abuton (13-8-2) 4. Zaldy Ranopa (12-3-2) 5. Arnel Pama (12-9-1) 6. Jaime Guevarra (10-4-3) 7. Dennis Lara (11-4-0) 8. Robert Tubice (10-8-2) 9. Abe Francisco (9-5-2) 10. Paul Garcia (9-5-0) 11. Paquito Suringa, Jr. (9-14-0) 12. Tony Penas (8-6-0) 13. Erick Ventinilla (6-13-1) 14. Excalibur (5-9-1) 15. Manny Dulay (5-18-0) 16. Ivan II (3-10-0) 17. Randy Sioson (3-15-0) 18. Arnold Rivera (1-3-0) 19. Zuenie Mirabueno (0-18-0).
Source: Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Page 13
Volume 17
October 12-18, 2007
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
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