NEOPHYTE chess player Jess David is currently having the best record in the ongoing Palau Royal Resort Rapid Chess Tournament with a 4-1-0 win-loss-draw record after nipping another newcomer Armand Lelis last week.
Mark Apresto is still leading their division despite a setback from the surging Francis Diesta, who scored another victory from erstwhile leader Edgar Cayanan.
David used to watch Class A players practicing and learned his lessons from their styles, strengths and weaknesses.
Class C top seed Randy 'Buhawi' Sioson swept Cayanan in their 3-game series. He won the 1st game.With the 2nd game headed for a draw, they decided to disregard the draw and play for win.
With the loss, Cayanan scored only half point in 5 games after winning his first four.
The same thing happened to Jaime Guevarra in last year's rating chess tourney of PRR where he scored 3 straight and didn't score a whole point in his last 4 games.
Diesta showed his top form as he dealt Mark his 3rd loss of the event. Other Class C players Morris Apresto, Romy Cayanan, Arnold Rivera and invited player Chat Miraflor didn't play a single game last week despite Miraflor's day off on Wednesday.
With Mark Apresto leaving on March 12, he needs to play all his remaining games to avoid default losses.
He is still in contention for the title and it will depend on the performance of David, Diesta, the two Cayanans and his brother Morris.
Only one game was played in the Class B division. It is the first game of Darwin Nisperos against Paquito Pax' Suringa, Jr., who has yet to win a game after 3 tries.
With his cautious play, Nisperos build a bewildering attack in the king side but blundered badly in the endgame that lead to his downfall with his 4-pawn advantage against a bishop.
Class B top seed Abrahan 'Abe' Francisco withdraw from the tournament and concentrate more against 14 opponents at Chess.com.
There is a plan to include players of Class B to Class A as most players in that class have the talents higher than that of Class B.
Class A top seed Roberto Hernandez outwitted 5th seed Paul Garcia in less than 30 moves of Pirc Defence where Garcia lost a minor piece in the middle game.
By the time that he recovered the piece, Hernandez already weaved a mating net to force his resignation facing a mate in two.
Garcia bounced back from defeat and dealt Hernandez his 2nd loss with a masterful handling of a pair of bishop.
Even during practice, Garcia showed much improvement as he also defeated blitz chess specialist Tony Villa three weeks ago.
Source: Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 13 & 15
Volume 18
March 07-13, 2008
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