THE RAPID chess version of Palau Royal Resort with bang and boos as all kinds of illegal moves and blunders were committed during the opening round.
A total of 27 players are participating in the event that will last only for a month and will be held at Dormitory 1 during the free time of all the players.
The players were divided into Class A, B and C with the top 8 finishers of PRR rating chess tourney held last year forming the Class A.
Class B were the lesser-placed players and Class C were all newcomers and first-timers.
Edgar Cayanan, the Assistant Restaurant Manager of Waves Restaurant of PRR, started with a perfect 4-0 win-loss slate and leads the Class C followed by near-perfect performance of Jess David at 3-1.
Class C top seed Randy 'Buhawi' Sioson had played 10 games already, winning 5 and losing 5. He was swept by David, split the double round-robin matches with Francis Diesta, Delfin 'Scanamus' Mallare and Mark Apresto and clobbered Edgar's nephew Romy Cayanan in a losing game when the younger Cayanan missed an unopposed pawn move that would have won him the game.
David's only loss was against Apresto, whose brother Morris scored the shortest game of the tourney with a 6-move conquest of Armand Lelis.
Morris thought that he's doing the same thing in their 2nd game. He stand to claim the 2nd victory but Lelis had another piece that captured the queen of Morris and he succumbed to pressure of being outnumbered.
In the first game of the tournament, Class A top seed Roberto Hernandez scored 2 victories against the invited player Andres 'Aying' Mestizo II in their Danish Gambit and Dutch Defence encounters.
In Mestizo's next 4 games, he lost and won a game each to Paul Garcia and Arnel Pama, the elected Chairman of King Royal Chess Club of PRR.
The other invited player, Koror State Legal Counsel Craig Dittrich withdrew from the tournament to prepare for the National Championship to be held in the middle of March 2008 where potential members of Palau Olympic Chess Team will be trained and formed by International Arbiter (IA) and organizer (IO) Jan Berglund.
Laurence Abuton of Engineering Department started with a 2-0 card and drew his 3rd game Elizalde 'Eli' Madrinan to share the lead in the Class B division after Eli swept Paquito 'Pax' Suringa, Jr.
Abuton's other 2 wins were from Manny Dulay and Suringa. Class B's top seed Abraham Francisco, January employee of the month Erick Ventinilla, Tony Penas and Darwin Nisperos have not yet played their first games while Class C invited player Chat Miraflor will play on Wednesday, his day off.
Lelis have taken the spot of Arnold Rivera, who has yet to confirm his participation. Another newcomer, Arj Berenguer might join the crowded, exciting and funny Class C division.
Source: Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 13 & 15
Volume 18
February 22-28, 2008
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