EVEN with the return of current leader and blitz specialist Tony Villa from vacation, no games were played on Sunday, January 13, 2008 at Jean's Boutique and Store.
The 3-game schedule of Paul Garcia against Villa, Cyril Montel, Jr. and Manny Nedic were postponed due to transportation problem.
But on Monday evening, 3 games were played at Palau Royal Resort Dormitory 1 between the 4 participants of the ongoing rapid chess tourney.
Garcia, with the black pieces, trapped Jaime Guevarra's queen in the middle game. With still chances for counter attack, Guevarra missed the right defense and was mated in the process.
Next in line, Guevarra played 4th seed Roberto Hernandez and lost in their 1st game of Sicilian Defence.
Their 2nd game, a King's Gambit Declined, produce the most closed and tight contest so far without pawns being captured till the last 3 moves of the match and Hernandez sacrificed his queen to force a mate in two.
The tournament will be finished in 4 more weeks and default games will have to be implemented as the National Chess Championship will start on March 02-May 25.
It might be FIDE rated and unrated players will have a chance to gain international rankings.
With the help of International Arbiter Jan Berglund, the 2nd Palau Invitational Chess Championship (Ambassador Marino Cup) might have 2 more Palau players gaining international ranking--Villa and Koror State Legal Counsel Craig Dittrich.
The 3rd PICC will be held again on Labor Day weekend (August 29, 30, 31 - Sept. 1, 2, 2008) with Philippine Ambassador to Palau Ramoncito Marino sponsoring the cash prizes again.
Foreign players will be invited again to play against Palau top players.
Palau Royal Resort will hold it's own version of rapid chess tournament on February 17 or earlier.
A couple of players might be invited to participate -- Dittrich and Andres 'Aying' Mestizo II.
Players are requested to pay their registration fee of $10.00 where half of it will be used as cash prize for the current tourney.
Some players of the 2nd PICC have not paid yet their registration fee which will be added to pay for Palau Chess Federation yearly due to FIDE (362.00 euros).
Source: Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Page 13
Volume 18
Issue 03
January 18-24, 2008
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