Arnold Undecimo
Felix Oling Marcial Santander
Leif Toribiong Robert Godwin Sola
CHESS NEOPHYTES OF PALAU NATIONAL
CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP
THE 2014 Palau National Chess Championship has the
biggest number of participants – 39, in which 15 of them are first timers to
compete in the annual and mostly year-ending chess event in Palau.
The
Top 10 Division is composed of top seed Menandro Manuel (1852 rating), who is
on a 2-month contract in his return to Palau. He played his last game of the
tournament and of the day against 2nd seed Tito Cabunagan (1825) on
Sunday, Nov. 30. He prevailed in 58 moves of Center Counter in an exciting game
watched by 3 of chess neophytes (Felix Oling, Tuloy Rengiil and Leif
Toribiong), 8th seed Paquito Suringa, Jr. (1701), 3rd
seed Roberto Hernandez (1815) and 6th seed Jeffrey Balbalosa (1721).
Cabunagan
subdued 7th seed Dennis Gonzales (1701) earlier in the day in 54
moves of Ruy Lopez. Manuel was able to finished 5 games –2 wins (against 10th
seed Rafael Paloma (1612) and Tito), 2 draws (vs. Jeff and Paquito) and lost to
Hernandez in the opening round. His last 4 games will be recorded as - + (for
un-played games) to 4th seed Cyril Tomas Montel, Jr., 5th
seed CM Bernardo Garcia, Gonzales and 9th seed Nilo de Jesus (1624).
Montel
refused to play against Manuel earlier because he is scheduled to play against
Paquito, who arrived at 4pm because he doesn’t have Sunday off till next year.
Montel refused also to play against Manuel, maybe knowing that he can win by
default over Manuel if he will not play him on that day. But he will miss his
last chance to play the top player of Palau for 5 consecutive years
(2005-2009). His reason is… he doesn’t have enough sleep because of PPR
Christmas party.
Paquito accepts his default loss
to Cyril, who insisted that he waited for more than 30 minutes (defaulting
time), which is applicable only in the Swiss system Open division because the
round must be finished so that the next pairings will be available.
Paquito’s
first 2 games were played at Palau Royal Resort Dormitory 1, both on Thursday
afternoon. He lost to Roberto on Nov. 13 and drew with Manuel on Nov. 20.
Manuel drew also to Jeff on Nov. 15 (Sat.), while the Garcia-Balbalosa match
was rescheduled on a later date.
This
means that the Top 10 division is round-robin and there’s no default losses or
wins except in the last day. Cyril will give Paquito a chance to play at 4pm on
Dec. 7 after Roberto refused his suggestion that him and Bernard will play on Dec.
7 because he thought that the rule about players of the same company must play
in the first 3 rounds. But Roberto has played already with Dennis (Cyril’s
opponent) so he will stick with the schedule to play Bernard.
OTHER
RESULTS OF 3RD ROUND: Paloma lost to Garcia in 37 moves of Sicilian
Defence; Arnold Undecimo whipped Nelson Sablan in 47 moves of another Sicilian
Defence; Glen Navarosa scored a win over Eric Ksau Surangel Whipps in 56 moves;
Felix Oling recovered from a queen-less disadvantage and outlasted Senator
Surangel Whipps, Jr. in 42 moves of Two Knights Game; Angelil Sisior dominated
Cyrelle Ann Montel (3-1) in their quadruple round-robin junior division clash; Tuloy
Rengiil played for the first time and subdued Chris Kitalong in 33 moves of
Queen’s Pawn Opening; Robert Godwin Sola lost to junior top seed Destiny Sisior
in 41 moves of Irregular Opening and dark horse Marcial Santander clobbered
Gonzalo Escapatoria to lead the Open division with 3 points, same as Manuel Mahor, Jr.
4TH
ROUND PAIRINGS – OPEN DIVISION 1. Mahor vs. Santander 2. Undecimo vs.
Oling 3.Escapatoria vs. Navarosa 4. Eugene Labarda vs. Toribiong
5. Geoff Martin vs. Rengiil 6. Sablan vs. Joey Balute 7. Kitalong vs.
Whipps,
Jr. 8. Eric Whipps vs. Remrel Dizon 9. Cris Ulap – BYE.
Solution
to last week’s puzzle No. 3757: 1. Ng4+! Rxg4 2. Rf5+!! Kxf5 3. Rd5 mate.
This
week’s puzzle No. 3758: White to move and mates in 3 (Solution next issue)
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Source: Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Page 10
Volume 23
Issue 98
December 08, 2014
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