Bangladeshi bet Mohammad Manik Hossain, left, finished 5th in the Reserves Division of 2013 PNCC although he lost his final game here against eventual champion Jun Mahor. His rating will surely increase as well as his chances to make it to 2014 Palau Chess Team to Tromso, Norway World Chess Olympiad. (Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
GOOD NEWS FOR MANIK
With still 10 months before the 2014 World Chess Olympiad
in Tromso, Norway, the Palau Chess Team composition is still open to PLAYERS
who can afford to buy their own roundtrip airfares to Norway. The 6 members of
2012 Palau Chess Team to Istanbul, Turkey bought their own tickets in going
there. Those are Roberto Hernandez, Elizabeth Manuel, CM Bernardo Garcia,
Menandro Manuel, Jamie Kenmure (Australia-Team Captain) and Jan Berglund
(Sweden-Delegate).
The tentative composition of
Palau Chess Team to Norway is: Senator Mlib Tmetchul, Head of Delegation; Jan
Berglund, Delegate; Jamie Kenmure, Men’s (Open) Team Captain; Cyril Tomas
Montel, Jr., Board 1; Menandro Manuel, Board 2; CM Bernardo Garcia, Board 3;
Tito Cabunagan, Board 4; Roberto Hernandez, Board 5 (Reserve); Eric Ksau
Whipps, Women’s Team Captain; Angelica Parrado, Board 1; Gladys Anne Paloma,
Board 2; Baby Edna Mission, Board 3; Joy Flores Whipps, Board 4; Elizabeth
Manuel, Board 5 (Reserve).
When
the Organizing Committee of the 2014 Olympiad sent the invitation to Palau,
only the players who can afford to buy the roundtrip airfares will be included
in the team because in getting Schengen visa, roundtrip ticket is one of the
requirements to get it.
Interested
players were informed about this and were asked to start saving since last
year. Although there might be some financial help from presidential candidates
for the FIDE (World Chess Federation) presidency, Palau will opt to accept help
for long-term support for Palau Chess Federation instead of short term one-time
off benefit. THAT IS--BEING ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN AN OLYMPIAD.
This
new development is good news to Mohammad Manik Hossain as he is capable of
buying his own airfare like in the 2012 World Chess Olympiad. He missed his
chance then but he is very determined this time. Opportunity will knock again
but it’s not like the first time where it’s all for him to grab.
He
knows and everybody knows that it’s impossible to be with the Bangladesh
national team in any Olympiad in the future because of his inexperience in
chess. There were 4 Bangladeshi Grandmasters in the top 4 boards at the 2012
Olympiad in Istanbul.
Paquito Suringa, Jr., Jeff
Balbalosa and even Eugenio Pastrana are also eligible to be with the team if
they can provide their own airfares that the others in the tentative list can’t
afford.
The format and date of the 2013
Palau Invitational Chess Championship was tackled during the meeting at
Bethlehem Park in Oct. 13. Of the 6 players (Jose Celiz, CM Bernardo Garcia,
Roberto Hernandez, Tito Cabunagan, Cyril Tomas Montel, Jr. and Jeffrey
Balbalosa) listed to participate against 3 or 4 invited players, only Balbalosa
refused to join because he will be taking a vacation to Philippines during that
date –last week of November to first week of December 2013.
Pastrana volunteered to replace
him. An Indian player and another one from Kenya have showed interest to play
when they met Palau Delegate Jan Berglund at the FIDE Congress in Tallinn,
Estonia earlier this month. Two more players (from USA and Namibia) showed
interest but not as eager as the first two, whose FIDE rating is just above
2003, which is good to put up the level of Palau players.
Solution
to last week’s puzzle: 1. Qc8+ Ka7 2. Bb6+! Kxb6 3. Qb8 mate.
This week’s puzzle: White to move and
mates in 3 (Solution next issue)
Source: Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 9 & 10
Volume 22
Issue 86
October 28, 2013
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