Palau's No. 2 player Jose Omega and Palau's first National Master Manny Nedic kept their winning streak intact in the resumption of 2008 Palau National Chess Championship held on Saturday, May 10 and Mother's Day (May 11) at Jean's Boutique and Store.
In a special game at Palau Royal Resort Dormitory 1 on Wednesday, May 7, Omega dealt Elizalde Madrinan, a cook at PRR, his 3rd loss via 36-move conquest of Sicilian Defence. He followed it up with another whipping of previously unbeaten Cyril Montel, Jr. (Palau's No. 3) in 54 moves of another Sicilian Defence and notched his 6th win of the tourney with a victory over newcomer Elpidio Manaligod in 36 moves of Giocco Piano.
Blitz chess wizard Tony Villa is back in winning column for at least 2 games after nipping Jaime Guevarra, a pastry chef at PRR, in 27 moves of Petroff Defence and 4th seed Roberto Hernandez in 67 moves of Danish Gambit.
Another PRR employee Arnel Pama, a steward, lost to Jimboy de Jesus in 47 moves of Bishop Opening on Saturday afternoon.
The game of the week was the upset of Montel, Jr. of Villa in 54 moves of Irregular King's Pawn Opening where Cyril responded 1. ... Nh6 to Tony's 1. e4. A blunder by Tony on the 27th move made Cyril very cautious not to let the whole point slip away. He spent 17 minutes on his 29th move while Tony spent more than 5 minutes in the game's entirety!
Dennis Lara, the 5th of PRR employee to see action on Sunday, lost to de Jesus in 60 moves of Queen's Pawn Opening while Pama suffered his 2nd straight loss to Manaligod, who had a 50% day after drawing with Hernandez in 63 moves of Danish Gambit.
Koror State Legal Counsel Craig Dittrich halved the point with Guevarra in 26 moves of Semi-Slav Defence and suffered his rare loss to Cyril in 37 moves of King's Indian Defence while Nedic took the measure of Lara in 57 moves of Queen's Gambit Accepted.
Villa refused the Blackmar Dimer Gambit of Pama and prevailed in 39 moves and finally a PRR player scored a whole point when Guevarra outwitted Mohammad Manik Hossain in 52 moves of King's Pawn Opening, where Hossain used the same opening as Cyril did in his game against Villa.
Hossain dropped another game to Cyril in a shorter 24 moves of the same opening and Lara was happy enough to draw will Villa in 57 moves of Pirc Defence.
The final game of the day was the Pama vs. Nedic match where the latter accepted the pawn that Villa refused. After only 4 moves, Nedic spent 11 minutes on his 4th move. Showing signs of unfamiliarity with the Blackmar Dimer Gambit or BDG, Nedic was on the defensive most of the time and when Pama missed a good outpost for his knight, Nedic had a sigh of relief after prevailing in 41 moves.
Pama learned the BDG from the online website chess.com
Source: Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 13 & 15
Volume 18
May 16-22, 2008
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