Newcomer Manuel Nedic, right, plays his first tournament game vs. Roberto Hernandez in the 8th round of 2005 Regular Chess Tournament. Nedic is an avid reader of Chess Mate and practices chess by solving the puzzles in that column. He lives in the far end part of Palau -- Ngeremlengui State. Watching the opening moves of that game were (R-L) Jimmy Valenzuela, Bong Alipoon, Susan Andres, Gene Pastrana and an unknown Palauan guy. (Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
2005 REGULAR CHESS TILT -- ROUND 8
(Only 4 games were played)
THE 2005 REGULAR Chess Tournament has many firsts in terms of participants, format, venue and rook/knight odd for junior players.
Round 1 has 9 games played including the only 2 junior participants (Christopher Domingo and 2004 Rapid Chess junior champ Em-R de Vera), who played in Best-of-3 format.
In Round 2, they were beaten by Jose Omega despite the knight odd, and Menandro Manuel (rook odd) respectively.
Morton Sawaichi also defeated De Vera with a knight odd, in the same 13-game 2nd round.
There are 3 newcomers in this tournament: Israeli Liam Bornovski, Ronald Maomay and Manuel Nedic, who is struggling with transportation as he is living in the very far end provincial state of Ngeremlengui, which is more or less 40 miles from the tournament site.
Ivan II Chess Computer was also fielded in and played in another 9-game 3rd round (white) against Nedic, which was won by the latter.
Nedic won again in the most busiest week so far (16 games), the 4th round, against 2nd timer Marcial Rodriguez, but lost to Dennis Gonzales in the same round.
Nedic didn't play in the 5th round (Feb. 13, 2005) but in the 6th round, he drew with top seeds Menandro Manuel and Cyril Montel, Jr. It is also in this round that Bornovski played a best of three series against De Vera, in which the latter prevails with a 0-2 score.
In Round 7 (Feb. 27, 2005), Nedic defeated Lin de Guzman but has to adjourned his game against Jose Omega due to schedule conflict. It will be resumed on April 10, 2005! Yes, we allowed this flexibility to accommodate ALL players.
We also allow special games like the 7th round game between Mario-Ramos vs. Marcial Rodriguez, which took place on Feb. 21, 2005 (Monday) at their staff house, as they live in the same place in another very far state of Ngchesar. Their game ended in a draw.
In Round 8, the only games played were the Manuel-Montel, Jr. match (1-0), Gonzales-Montel, Jr. (0-1), Sawaichi-Nedic (0-1), and the featured game Hernandez-Nedic.
THE MOVES:
[Event "2005 Regular Chess"] [Site "Koror City, Palau"]
[Date "2005.03.06"][Round "8"][White "Hernandez, Roberto"][Black "Nedic , Manuel"][Result "1-0"] [ECO "C00"][White Elo "2034"][Black Elo "1500"] [Ply Count "123"]
1. f4 e6 2. e4 d5 3. e5 Nc6 4. Nf3 a6 5. c3 h6 6. d4 Bd7 7. Bd3 Nce7 8. c4 dxc4 9. Bxc4 Bc6 10. O-O Nd5 11. Nc3 Nge7 12. Nxd5 Nxd5 13. Bxd5 Bxd5 14. Qc2 Be715. Be3 h5 16. Rac1 c6 17. a3 g6 18. Ng5 Rc8 19. h4 Rc7 20. Bd2 Rd7 21. Qa4 O-O 22. Ba5 Qa8 23. Bb4 b5 24. Qd1 Qd8 25. Bxe7 Qxe7 26. g4 hxg4 27. Qxg4 Kg7 28. h5 Rh8 29. hxg6 fxg6 30. Nf3 Rh6 31. Rc3 Rd8 32. Qg5 Qf8 33. Nh4 Be4 34. f5 exf5 35. Nxf5+ Bxf5 36. Rxf5 Qxf5 37. Qe7+ Qf7 38. Qxd8 g5 39. Rg3 g4 40. Rxg4+ Rg6 41. Rxg6+ Qxg6+ 42. Kf2 Qc2+ 43. Ke3 Qc1+ 44. Ke4 Qc2+ 45. Kf4 Qf2+ 46. Kg5 Qg3+ 47. Kf5 Qh3+ 48. Kf4 Qf1+ 49. Ke3 Qe1+ 50. Kd3 Qd1+ 51. Ke4 Qg4+ 52. Ke3 Qg3+ 53. Kd2 Qf2+ 54. Kc3 Qe1+ 55. Kb3 Qd1+ 56. Ka2 Qc2 57. Qf6+ Kh7 58. Qf7+ Kh8 59. Qb3 Qe4 60. e6 Qxd4 61. e7 Qe4 62. Qf7 1-0
Source: Chess Mate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 9-10
Volume 14
March 11-18, 2005
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