IT'S THE first serious chess tournament participation of Elizalde 'Eli' Madrinan, a cook at Palau Royal Resort, and he prevailed once more over first timer Elpidio Manaligod in the featured game on Sunday, June 22 in the resumption of 2008 Palau National Chess Championship held at Jean's Boutique and Store.
Eli blundered away a bishop in the middle game in exchange of two pawns and positional advantage. Manaligod missed a knight capture of a pawn in the ensuing play and play it safe.
With some accurate maneuver, Eli managed to promote his 2 pawns into queens and mated the skidding Manaligod to claim his 3rd victory. His other 2 wins are from co-employees Paquito 'Pax' Suringa and Arnel Pama, who has yet to win a game.
In the first game of the day, Manaligod subdued Suringa in a marathon 70-move French Defence game where some passive play cost Pax the game. He missed a strong rook capture that will pave the way for his passed pawn and put Manaligod on the defensive side.
Second seed Jose Omega showep up at the tournament site and played one game against Pama. The game is scheduled on Wednesday at PRR Dormitory 1 but they played it there to save time.
As usual, Pama have a good opening repertoire but his weakness in the middle game was exploited by Omega and mated Pama on the 38 moves of Caro-Kahn Defence. With the victory, Omega seized the 2nd spot in the standings from Palau's first National Master Manny Nedic, who showed up late in the afternoon and not enough time to set a match with 4th seed Roberto Hernandez, as he has to work at 6:00 pm.
Their scheduled match on Saturday, June 28 is not possible as Hernandez will work on the 3rd Anniversary of Palau Royal Resort and the grand opening of PRR beach.
STANDINGS OF PLAYERS AND THEIR WIN-LOSS-DRAW RECORD: 1. Tony Villa (14-2-1) 2. Jose Omega (11-2-0) 3. Manny Nedic (10-1-0) 4. Craig Dittrich (8-6-2) 5. Jimboy de Jesus (7-5-1) 6. Cyril Montel, Jr. (5-2-1) 7. Roberto Hernandez (5-2-1) 8. Jaime Guevarra (3-4-2) 9. Dennis Lara (3-4-1) 10. Elpidio Manaligod (3-4-1) 11. Eli Madrinan (3-7-1) 12. Paquito Suringa (3-7-0) 13. Andres Mestizo II (2-8-2) 14. Michael Mercado (2-6-1) 15. Mohammad Manik Hossain (3-11-1) 16. Eric Espartero (2-2-0) 17. Gene Pastrana (2-3-0) 18. Ken Pastrana (0-2-2) 19. Arnel Pama (0-8-0) 20. Jan Berglund 21. Menandro Manuel 22. Em-R de Vera
Source: Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 13 & 15
Volume 18
June 27-July 03, 2008
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