CHESS AND MUSIC PART 8 (The Beginning of Chess in Palau and Kyle)
Roberto’s Chess and Music students are 1. Geaury Ken Pastrana 2.
Mohammad Manik Hossain 3. Jasmine Yano 4. Paquito Suringa, Jr. 5. Ethan Nate
Meyar 6. Dichem Tmetchul 7. Ultei Angelie Surangel and the latest one-- 8.
Brandon Kyle Lagmay Soriano. A book will be written in the future with title
“CHESS AND MUSIC –PERFECT COMBINATION” ‘The Beginning of Chess in Palau’ By
Roberto Hernandez. (Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
3rd TOURNEY OF THE YEAR--
THE 2015 PALAU RAPID CHESS
CHAMPIONSHIP
JUST A WEEK after the successful 2015 Unrated Chess
Tournament has concluded, the 3rd tournament organized by Palau
Chess Federation will commence on Sunday, July 19 at Bethlehem Park—the 2015
Palau Rapid Chess Championship.
The
Open division is a 9-round Swiss system event to give chance to unrated and
lower rated players play against Palau top chess players: NMs Roberto
Hernandez, Cyril Montel, Jr. and Tito Cabunagan; CM Bernardo Garcia, Jeff
Balbalosa, Dennis Gonzales and Paquito ‘Pax’ Suringa, Jr. In this division, the
players have to play at least 2 games a week.
The
Women’s Division is a double round-robin event. It will be a test to surprise 3rd
place finisher in the Unrated tourney
Joan Gemota, to try her mettle against the top 3 women chess players of Palau:
WNM Angelica Parrado, Baby Edna Mission and Gladys Anne Paloma. Roberto informed
Joan that Palau is short of women chess players and she might make it to Palau
Women’s Team to the 2016 World Chess Olympiad in Baku, Azerbaijan on Sept.
17-30.
The
Junior Division is also a double round-robin affair with the Sisior sisters
leading the way and a preparation for their participation in the 2015 World
Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad in Mongolia in Aug. Destiny, Angelil and Kyarii
Sisior will be joined by their parents Angie and Harvey Sisior for another
milestone in Palau chess history.
Registration
fee is $15.00 for members, $17.00 for non-members or $20.00 for non-members for
an automatic membership which Arnolfo Inres, the Unrated champion, prefers, for
a saving of $3.00. The I. D. of Palau chess players have been distributed by
Jeff, who will miss this event because he is having a vacation. He will teach
Roberto how to use the Swiss Perfect software to continue the event in his
absence. That system makes the Swiss system events easier to organize and have
an automatic guide for tiebreak which was used successfully in the 2015 Palau
Blitz Chess Championship and the Unrated.
In
the 2015 Unrated Rapid Chess Tournament held at Bethlehem Park on Sunday, July
12, 2015, there were 7 unrated chess players, who
registered, with the last one at 5pm and there is no time to play 4-round games
so the organizers decided to hold it -- in one day, the next Sunday.
The
first 7 participants are 1. Koichi Matsuda, left, (Born on Feb. 10, 1944 --
tel. no. 778-9433) 2. Arnolfo Inres (Sept. 13, 1966 --Tel. 778-3287) 3. Joan
Gemota (June 24, 1985 --Tel. 779-6454) 4. Pons Mahor (May 30, 1959) 5. Allan
Alcid (April 13, 1964--Tel. 779-5618) 6. Johnny Carandang (Jan. 04, 1978--Tel.
778-2411) 7. Edward Artillaga (Oct. 01, 1988 Tel. 778-1143).
The last 3 entrants are 8. Ariel Mina (Feb. 15, 1968 -- Tel. 779-8189) 9. Allan Bacuno (Nov. 18, 1979 - Tel. 488-5472) 10. Josef Karlo Moyet (Sept. 04, 1988 -- Tel. 488-4463).
When the list of participants reached 10 entrees, the 1st round was set. Joan Gemota was fitted against Ariel Mina, who is watching the finals of a basketball game nearby. The defaulting time is just one minute and Joan earned her first win via default.
In her game against Pons Mahor, Roberto noticed that Pons moved a pawn after Joan captured a bishop with a pawn that exposed her king for an illegal move. Since Pons didn't notify the arbiter about the illegal move and making a pawn move, Roberto explained to Joan that she has to move the king for it is under check.
After moving her king, Pons captured a pawn with a pawn and 2 moves later, he made an illegal move (putting his queen to a dark diagonal where it is originally from a white diagonal. He said, "I think it's not the right place for a queen to be." Roberto traced where the queen came from and declared an illegal move. So Joan won another tough one via illegal move.
In her 7th and last round game against Allan Bacuno, she is way behind materials as she has only a bishop and a king. But Allan is under extreme time pressure with 3 seconds left in his clock and when Allan's time expires, she reveled in excitement as she thought she won that game. Cyril Montel, Jr. noticed that it's not a win for her because she doesn't have enough materials to mate Allan's king. It doesn't matter as the half point is all she needed to win 3rd place for a trophy and $10.00 cash.
Arnolfo Inres and Allan Alcid are tied for 1st place with identical 6.5 points after 7 rounds. They drew their game so the winner over the other tiebreak (Direct Encounter) can't be applied.
The Swiss Perfect software computed the other tiebreak and Inres emerged as champion with a trophy and $20.00 cash in which he pays for the next tournament on Sunday, July 19, the 2015 Palau Rapid Chess Championship.
The coming event offers cash prizes of $100.00, $80.00, $60.00, $40.00 and $20.00 for the top 5 finishers in the Open division + trophies to the top 4 and medal for 5th. There are trophies and cash prize also in the women and junior divisions.
The last 3 entrants are 8. Ariel Mina (Feb. 15, 1968 -- Tel. 779-8189) 9. Allan Bacuno (Nov. 18, 1979 - Tel. 488-5472) 10. Josef Karlo Moyet (Sept. 04, 1988 -- Tel. 488-4463).
When the list of participants reached 10 entrees, the 1st round was set. Joan Gemota was fitted against Ariel Mina, who is watching the finals of a basketball game nearby. The defaulting time is just one minute and Joan earned her first win via default.
In her game against Pons Mahor, Roberto noticed that Pons moved a pawn after Joan captured a bishop with a pawn that exposed her king for an illegal move. Since Pons didn't notify the arbiter about the illegal move and making a pawn move, Roberto explained to Joan that she has to move the king for it is under check.
After moving her king, Pons captured a pawn with a pawn and 2 moves later, he made an illegal move (putting his queen to a dark diagonal where it is originally from a white diagonal. He said, "I think it's not the right place for a queen to be." Roberto traced where the queen came from and declared an illegal move. So Joan won another tough one via illegal move.
In her 7th and last round game against Allan Bacuno, she is way behind materials as she has only a bishop and a king. But Allan is under extreme time pressure with 3 seconds left in his clock and when Allan's time expires, she reveled in excitement as she thought she won that game. Cyril Montel, Jr. noticed that it's not a win for her because she doesn't have enough materials to mate Allan's king. It doesn't matter as the half point is all she needed to win 3rd place for a trophy and $10.00 cash.
Arnolfo Inres and Allan Alcid are tied for 1st place with identical 6.5 points after 7 rounds. They drew their game so the winner over the other tiebreak (Direct Encounter) can't be applied.
The Swiss Perfect software computed the other tiebreak and Inres emerged as champion with a trophy and $20.00 cash in which he pays for the next tournament on Sunday, July 19, the 2015 Palau Rapid Chess Championship.
The coming event offers cash prizes of $100.00, $80.00, $60.00, $40.00 and $20.00 for the top 5 finishers in the Open division + trophies to the top 4 and medal for 5th. There are trophies and cash prize also in the women and junior divisions.
Solution
to last week’s puzzle No. 3753: (This is a very tricky puzzle that an average
player can’t solve in an hour) 1. Qc4+! Kxc4 2. e4!! (The key move! White
threatens mate on 3. Na3) …Rxa4 (preventing the first mate threat…BUT) 3. Nd6
mates still.
This
week’s puzzle No. 3754: White to move and mates in 3 (Solution next issue)
Source: Chess Mate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 10-11
Volume 24
Issue 58
July 20, 2015
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