: 8TH ROUND GAME—TITO VS. ROBERTO IN ALGEBRAIC
NOTATION
This
game is the breakthrough of writing the correct Algebraic notation for Tito
Cabunagan, left. He will represent Palau in the 2015 Oceania Zonal Chess
Championship in Sydney, Australia together with Angelica Parrado and maybe Baby
Edna Mission on July 04-10, 2015.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
***This photo was not published due to lack of space.
ALGEBRAIC CHESS NOTATIONS
CHESS notation is a wonderful invention – a time machine
that allows us to enjoy games of all eras, even those played hundreds of years
ago. In this 628th edition of Chess Mate, we will see one of the
first chess masters, Gioachino Greco, in action.
While
Greco is credited with developing some gambits, his main contribution to chess
was to publish witty collections of games that illustrate his theories.
Greco
considered the following one his best games. It is against an unknown player in
the year 1619 (!) in Rome…
1. e4 b6 2. d4 Bb7 3. Bd3 Greco
often preferred developing his Bishop to d3 rather that c4 or b5. As the game
progresses, you will see that this piece is perfectly placed …f5 Black offers a
pawn to break up the enemy center. 4. exf5 White accepts the pawn, and the
fireworks begin! …Bxg2 5. Qh5+ g6. It is
interesting that hundreds of years after this game was played, all of the moves
so far are still considered “by the book”. If you were not aware of the date,
you might believe that this game was from the Hypermodern movement of the 20th
century. 6. fxg6 Nf6 Black gets greedy
and loses immediately. The typical continuation is 6. …Bg7 7. gxh7+ Kf8 8.
hxg8=Q+ Kxg8 9. Qg6 (or Qg4) Bxh1 and Black has a reasonable game. 7. gxh7+
Nxh5 Gleefully seizing the enemy queen, but not seeing the danger. 8. Bg6 mate.
EVEN AFTER FOUR CENTURIES, SOME GAMES CAN STILL ELICIT A SMILE!
At
that time (1619), the English notation is being used. Things are getting modern
and the Algebraic notation is being used now worldwide. English notation is now
thing of the past.
But
some Palau chess players are combining the English and Algebraic notations
especially during capture. Notable players to do this are NM Menandro Manuel,
Tito Cabunagan, Jose Celiz, Elizalde Madrinan and Mohammad Manik Hossain.
In
the recently concluded 2014-2015 Palau National Chess Championship, Manuel has
improved a lot and used the Algebraic notation all the way.
Senator
Surangel Whipps, Jr. writes Algebraic notation better than 70% of the 2014-2015
PNCC participants. His game's notation against Manuel Mahor, Jr. shows how
knowledgeable he is in chess notations.
Tito
Cabunagan, noted that he will follow Algebraic notation in this tournament when
Roberto criticized his notations. But he still doing the same and worst! In his
game against Cyril Tomas Montel, Jr., he wrote on the 4th move KNf6 instead of
the usual and effective Nf3 because he is handling the white pieces. He's still
thinking that the Knight is in the king side so he adds K and HOW CAN THE WHITE
KNIGHT REACH THE f6 in the first move? In the 14th move, he wrote 14. QRb1 KRd8
15. Be3 KNd5 16. QNxN KRxN 17. KRG1 QRd8 20. QxQ NxQ
22. ... BxB 23. NxB 28. RxR h4xR. The worst thing
beside this is... he's written 30 moves but Cyril's record had 33 moves!
Actually, their game lasted 34 moves.
Since 2009, Roberto never had Tito's
notation as his referral for all his games. It's always the writings of his
opponent that he relied to get the accurate notations. Jeff Balbalosa suffered
the same experience in recording Tito's games (in the 2014 Micronesian Open).
Roberto
has recorded to Chessbase all but one of 84 games of 2010-2011 PNCC (Nov. 14,
2010-Feb. 13, 2011). That one game (Tito vs. Angie Parrado) took dozens of
hours for Roberto to figure out Tito’s notation but to no avail. Maybe those
who view the Palau Chess Federation website htt://palau-chess.blogspot.com
(133,875 page views of 78 countries) can help to ‘reconstruct’ this game:
White: Angelica Parrado vs. (Black) Tito Cabunagan 1. e4 d5 2. e5 d4 3. Nf3 Bg4
4. Be2 BxN 5. BxB Qxa5+ 6. Qe2 QxQ 7. BxQ d4 8. 0-0 Nd7 9. c3 d4xc3 10. d2xc3
Na3 11. Nc4 Nf6 12. f3 Nd5 13. Bd4 f6 14. Rc1 g5 15. Bd2 Nf4 16. Rc3 Nc5 17.
Rd1 Nxb5 18. RxN RxR+ 19. Be1 Nd3 20. Rf1 NxB 21. KxN RxR 22. KxR b5 23. b4 Kb6 24. Nb3 c5 25. a3 c5xb4
26. a3xb4 Rd6 27. Kf2 Rc4 28. Ne4 Rxc3 29. Kf2 Rc2+ 30. Kg3 Bxb4 31. b4 a5 32.
Kh3 a4 33. h5 h6 34. g3 f5 35. Resign
When
Roberto and Tito played their 8th round game in Dec. 04, 2014, Tito
was obliged to write Algebraic notation when Roberto asked him, “Please correct
your notation first before your next move. You’re writing in English notation
when there is capture.” Since then, Tito’s notation is now perfect… just in
time to be prepared in representing Palau in the 2015 Oceania Zonal Chess
Championship in Norths Sydney, Australia on July 04-10, 2015.
Solution
to last week’s puzzle No. 4379: 1. …Nxf2++ 2. Kg2 Qh3+ 3. Kxf2 Qf1 mate.
This
week’s puzzle No. 4380: Black to move and mates in 3 (Solution next issue)
Source: Chess Mate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 9-10
Volume 24
Issue 18
March 02, 2015
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