Mr. Berglund has postponed his trip to Palau on April 23 to new date (May 15, 2008) via Manila from Sweden.
He will catch up when he comes as Paquito 'Pax' Suringa, a cook at Palau Royal Resort, who will have a vacation on April 23 and will be back on May 14, 2008.
He is one of the six players from PRR to participate in the NCC. The others are Palau's no. 4 Roberto Hernandez, Jaime Guevarra, Dennis Lara, Arnel Pama, the chairman of King Royal Chess Club of PRR and Elizalde Madrinan.
Other players who are expected to show their wares are number one Menandro 'Boy' Manuel, Jose Omega, Cyril Montel, Jr., blitz chess specialist Tony Villa, Palau's first National Master Manny Nedic, venue host Gene Pastrana, Koror State Legal Counsel Craig Dittrich, Andres 'Aying' Mestizo II, Dennis Gonzales and some inactive players like Jimboy de Jesus, Val Vidar of Palau Pacific Resort, who introduces to Hernandez the new worker in Palau (just a few days here) and has been a 4-time champion in Philippines.
This is also a chance for players to gain international ranking as Mr. Berglund already informed World Chess Federation (FIDE) that this championship will be FIDE-rated.
Mr. Berglund will also join the championship to test the strengths and weaknesses of the potential team members of Palau team to participate in the Dresden, Germany World Chess Olympiad in November where he is willing to captain the Palau team. He can speak Swedish, English and German languages.
He also informed FIDE that the 3rd Ambassador Marino Cup will be FIDE rated and he will invite at least 3 foreing players to compete against Palau's best.
He is also looking for a place to stay or to housesit available house when the owners go off island.
Only 4 games were played in this week in the resumption of Palau Royal Resort Rapid Chess tournament. Andres 'Aying' Mestizo II continued to dominate PRR players and swept Eli, who's very good during practice and seems to struggle in tournament play.
On Monday night, on Pax day off, he lost the first game to Guevarra and drew the 2nd with a whole piece advantage. His earlier agreed match with Paul Garcia and Mestizo didn't materialize as both didn't show up the whole night.
Source: Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 13 & 15
Volume 18
April 18-24, 2008
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