Bernard Garcia, left, lost 3 games on the last day that outsiders are
allowed to play at PRR Dorm 1. Angie Parrado, right, scored her 2nd
victory over Bernard. Roberto Hernandez, 2nd from left, and Paquito
Suringa, Jr. watched the exciting game sporadically.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez -- Taken by Rudel Roxas)
EDWIN ACUYAN'S FIRST GAME
EDWIN ACUYAN'S FIRST GAME
FINALLY, EDWIN Acuyan played his first game of the 2011 Palau National Chess Championship against 3rd seed and co-employee Roberto Hernandez on Tuesday, Aug. 30 after taking their lunch. Acuyan, the new Food and Beverage Manager of Palau Royal Resort is off on that day but they used the rapid time control of 30 minutes for each player to finish the game.
Hernandez was able to annotate their game, a Sicilian Defence encounter. A doubtful 2nd move of f6 created a weakness to Acuyan’s king side that Hernandez exploited to win a pawn and a bishop early in the game. After winning another knight and exchanging their queens, Hernandez won the exchange (a bishop for a rook) and is ready to checkmate Acuyan on the 30th move when the latter resign.
August 28 was the last Sunday that outsiders are allowed to play at PRR Dorm 1 lounge. Tito Cabunagan and Jose Celiz arrived at 2:00 pm. Angie Parrado don’t have a ride and she requested Bernard Garcia to pick her up so that they can play their game. Bernard had a bad day as he lost to Jose and to Gonzalo ‘Jojo’ Escapatoria, Jr.
Tito and Jose proceeded to Beken’s Store to play against Gene Pastrana but the other venue host refused to play against them. Jeff Balbalosa also came at PRR and watched the last game of the day between Bernard and Angie. He’s shaking his head when Angie missed some winning lines. In spite that she was unable to find the quickest way to win, Angie still extracted a whole point over Bernard for her second win of the event.
Hernandez suggested a match between Rudel Roxas and Escapatoria, Jr. but the former was invited for a swim by friends and he just gave away the victory to Jojo, who picked up his 4th win against 5 losses.
To speed up the current tournament, Hernandez will suggest the following: Games will be set at Beken’s Store. If on agreed date and time, a player didn’t show up, he will lose automatically. If he showed up and Gene can’t play for whatever reason, their game will be declared a draw.
Elpidio Manaligod doesn’t have to play a single game if his current job schedule is too tight for him to play even in the rapid time control. All he has to do is show up in a specified date and time and agreed to draw with that unrated player. Against FIDE rated players, he will lose to them if he can’t play even in the rapid time control.
Tito suggested that players who played less than 5 games lose all their remaining games. That’s when there’s still 27 days left before the 2011 PNCC concludes. Surely, Gene will not agree to this as it will plummet his ranking to the cellar. That’s why the above-mentioned suggestion of Hernandez will somehow ease the burdens from Gene and many other players like Dennis Gonzales, Mohammad Manik Hossain, Jeffrey Negrillo and Ferdinand ‘Bong’ Gutierrez.
That Sunday at Beken’s Store, when Gene refused to play against Tito and Jose, they should have just declare it a draw.
Current standings of 2011 PNCC (The players, their win-loss-draw record and points):
1. Menandro ‘Boy’ Manuel (9-2-2) 10 pts.
2. Tito Cabunagan (8-1-2) 9 pts.
3. Roberto Hernandez (9-3-0) 9 pts.
4. Cyril Tomas Montel, Jr. (6-1-2) 7 pts.
5. Paquito ‘Pax’ Suringa, Jr. (6-4-2) 7 pts.
6. Jose Celiz (6-2-1) 6.5 pts.
7. Bernard Garcia (5-6-2) 6 pts.
8. Jeff Balbalosa (6-9-0) 6 pts.
9. Gonzalo ‘Jojo’ Escapatoria, Jr. (4-5-0) 4 pts.
10. Rudel Roxas (3-6-2) 4 pts.
11. Jeffrey Negrillo (2-1-1) 2.5 pts.
12. Angie Parrado (2-6-1) 2.5 pts.
13. Mohammad Manik Hossain (2-5-0) 2 pts.
14. Dennis Gonzales (1-2-0) 1 pt.
15. Ferdinand ‘Bong’ Gutierrez (1-7-0) 1 pt.
16. Gene Pastrana (0-1-1) .5 pt.
17. Edwin Acuyan (0-1-0)
18. Karen Lee (0-2-0)
19. Elizalde Madrinan (0-3-0)
20. Ann Acebron (0-3-0)
21. Elpidio Malaligod (0-0-0).
Source: Chess Mate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 9-10
Volume 20
Issue 36
September 05, 2011
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