Eugenio Pastrana (playing the White pieces here --in the 25th round of 2005-2006 Palau Rapid Chess Championship on Jan. 15, 2006) has never beaten Roberto Hernandez in any tournament in Palau. This is another losing game for him. But he won this game when Roberto overlooked the illegal move 47. Qg6+.
Pastrana's first win over Roberto -- the illegal way!
ALL PALAU CHESS PLAYERS' GAMES
SOON TO BE AT CHESSBASE
When FIDE C. E. O. Geoffrey Borg visited Palau for the 2nd
time in April 2014, one of his advises for those players who would like to
improve a lot is to have ChessBase installed in their laptops.
With
the help of Jeff Balbalosa, the ChessBase12 32Bit, was installed on Roberto
Hernandez’ laptop, bought for Palau Chess Federation use in May 28, 2010. In
return, Roberto let Jeff to install also in his laptop the Mega Database 2013
that includes 5 million chess games from around the world since 1619. Also the
Correspondence Database 2013 was installed both to their laptops.
Those
2 Database were given as gifts to Roberto by his best friend Joselito Marcos of
Papua New Guinea during his participation in the 2011 3rd Palau
Invitational Chess Championship held from Dec. 14-21, 2011 at the Conference
Room of Palau Royal Resort. Three more CDs were included there –Chess Videos
(All Things Chess, Garry Kasparov, Magnus Carlsen); Fritz 13 (Released: Oct.
2011); and the Opening Ceremony of 2010 World Chess Olympiad in
Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia with Russian music background so Roberto can add to his
repertoire of international songs some Russian songs.
Jeff also taught Roberto how to
install/record/post chess games at ChessBase, which is a very meticulous job of
recording all chess games in Palau since the 2002 All-Filipino Chess
Tournament. Hundreds of games are still in the process of recording at
ChessBase. The 2010 Palau National Chess Championship if finished (83 games).
Currently, Roberto has recorded
558 chess games. It will take him another 5 years maybe to finish all the games
played in Palau. The hardest part is the correction of many mistakes of players
in writing Algebraic notations. When it becomes available to all Palau chess
players, they can study at least 40 games from each player as a REAL preparation.
In the currently concluded
2014-2015 Palau National Chess Championship, Tito Cabunagan have more than 30
mistakes in combining English and Algebraic notation in his game against CM
Bernardo Garcia. Their game lasted less than 60 moves so there are more than
50% errors.
ChessBase doesn’t accept illegal
move. In Roberto’s game against Eugenio Pastrana in the 2005-2006 Palau
Rapid Chess Championship on Jan. 15, 2006, the hopeless position of
Pastrana (White) is this:
Kg1, Qc1, Rg7, f2. Roberto (Black) has Kh5, Qf3, Rh3, d4, e5, g4, g5,
h6.
On his 46th move,
Roberto placed his queen to f3 with unstoppable mate on h1. Pastrana made an
illegal move 47. Qg6+. Seeing mate in the next move (Qxh6), Roberto resigned.
He trusted that Pastrana will not make that kind of unsportsmanlike conduct.
Roberto is the only one player that writes chess notation even though the time
control is only 30 minutes for each player to finish the game.
When he reviewed the notations,
it’s really an illegal move. Pastrana don’t like to accept defeat because
Roberto has resigned. It’s also the opinion of other senior players present at
the time—Menandro Manuel, Jimmy Valenzuela, Cyril Montel, Jr., Jess Toldoya and
Bong Alipoon.
THAT ONE GAME CAUSED PASTRANA TO
LOSE THE RESPECT FOR HIM OF MANY PLAYERS.
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Solution to last week’s puzzle No. 4380: 1. …Rxg2+! 2. Kxg2 Qf3+ 3. Kg1 Qg4 mate.
This week’s puzzle No. 4381: 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 20
March 09, 2015
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