ON A 7-game winning streak, Mark Apresto, with a 10-2-0 win-loss-draw record, grab the leadership in the Class C division of Palau Royal Resort Rapid Chess Tournament held at Dormitory 1 last week.
He swept Delfin 'Scanamus' Mallare(1-9-0) and Armand Lelis (3-9-0) convincingly and clobbered invited player Chat Miraflor (0-2-0) last Wednesday.
He subdued Francis Diesta (1-2-1) on Monday night and dealt the 3rd loss of his brother Morris (5-3-0) on the same night.
With the way he is playing, he is on his way to his first chess title before going home in a few weeks.
Erstwhile Class C leader Edgar Cayanan (4-2-1) suffered 2 setbacks from Morris and drew with Diesta in a seesaw battle that had both players seizing the initiative and ended in a stalemate.
Morris nipped Miraflor, who played only 2 games on his day off (Wednesday). Lelis swept Mallare and won by time forfeit over Morris, who learned his lesson about using the time clock properly and bounced back to defeat Lelis.
First week leader and top seed Randy 'Buhawi' Sioson (7-5-0) played 2 games in one week after playing 10 games last week and swept Lelis to fall one step behind in standings.
Romy Cayanan (4-2-0) scored 4 straight wins over Lelis and Mallare but lost to Morris while Jess David, the remaining player with the least loss, didn't play a single game to stay at 3-1-1 slate.
Arnold Rivera, the PRR Cafeteria chief cook, confirmed his participation and scored a victory over Lelis and lost one game to Morris in a hectic week of Class C encounters.
The opposite happened in Class B where no games were played between the 8 participants.
In the Class A division, Andres 'Aying' Mestizo II lost 2 games to Dennis Lara and the 2 Roberts of Class A suffered their first loss in contrasting fashion.
Top seed Roberto Hernandez was ahead in his late night action against Lara when he blundered away his queen and eventually lost.
The other Robert, Robert 'Tube Ice' Tubice was outplayed by 2nd seed Jaime Guevarra earlier in the night.
The cash prize of the recently concluded Rapid Chess tournament of Palau's top players were already given to the champions Manny Nedic and Tony Villa ($25.00 and $20.00 respectively).
Third place Cyril Montel, Jr. ($15.00), 4th place Roberto Hernandez and 5th place Gene Pastrana ($10.00 each).
Pastrana proposed that the next tournament to have Group A vs. Group B
Proposed composition of Group A are Tony Villa, Cyril Montel, Jr., Jose Omega, Gene Pastrana, Dennis Lara, Paul Garcia and Dennis Gonzales.
The Group B will have Menandro Manuel, Manny Nedic, Roberto Hernandez, Craig Dittrich, Jaime Guevarra, Andres 'Aying' Mestizo II and Jimboy de Jesus.
Players in Group A will play only players from Group B and the registration fee is $20.00 to be given to the group winners.
Source: Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 13 & 15
Volume 18
February 29-March 06, 2008
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