IT WAS another perfect start for 3rd seed Jose Omega as he share the lead with idle Joel Azana, with 4 straight victories after trouncing Manuel Nedic in 36 moves of Modern Defence in the 6th round of 2005 Open Chess Tournament held on Sunday, June 26 at Privilege Family Store in Malakal and sponsored by Bendix N. Lakobong, Leo Lacambra, Jr. and Roswell C. Macapagal of T-Shirt Printing Atbp.
In the 2004 Rapid Chess Tournament and 2005 Regular Chess tilt, Omega also started with 4 straight wins that won him the 2nd runner-up plum in the 2005 Regular but failed to get a trophy in the 2004 Rapid Chess when he faltered in the homestretch and lost 2 out of 4.
Azana was absent as he schedule is every other Sunday at the Compact Road Project where he works full time.
Omega is only ahead by 2 pawns but Nedic blundered away a whole rook and a pawn on the 32nd move with a Qh6 oversight that left his f pawn unprotected and leads to his total collapse.
In the 2nd game of the day, top seed Roberto Hernandez bounced back from 2 straight losses last Sunday to outplay Ivan II Chess Computer in 35 moves of Modern Benoni Defence. The materialistic Ivan II gobbled all of Hernandez' rooks in exchange for a bishop.
But Hernandez has a relentless attack as Ivan's queen is out of place at the other end of the board. With mating threats from 2 knights and a queen, Ivan II was forced to give his queen to salvage his position.
Hernandez promoted a pawn to another queen on the 32nd move and give it away in exchange of a pawn, a rook and finally--checkmate.
Gene Pastrana nipped Palauan bet Morton Sawaichi to keep the 3rd spot with a 3-1 win-loss slate. Both players were moving fast and their game lasted only more than 30 minutes.
Second seed Cyril Montel, Jr. dealt Sawaichi his 4th straight setbacks in 41 moves of Queen's Pawn Game. Montel, Jr. is now tied at 5th place with Nedic with identical 2-1 records after Nedic demolished Jimmy Valenzuela.
Both players annotated their game and 6 players and observers are closely monitoring the game as it qualify for $50.00 brilliancy prize when Nedic sacrificed the exchange on the 34th move to weave a mating net with his active queen and a bishop.
The game could have ended 4 moves earlier had Nedic found a quickest way to victory with a bishop check on f2 square. After the game, 6 players analyzed the position from 32nd move when Valenzuela refused to capture Nedic's knight. After more than an hour of analyses, it's still a convincing win for Nedic, who borrowed Ivan II Chess Computer to prepare himself against the machine on their next Sunday's match.
Bong Alipoon didn't play again as he is tired again from overtime work. His time schedule will go back to normal next Sunday and he will play as many games as he can.
Solution to last week's puzzle: 1. Rg3 Kf4 2. Qg4 mate. If 1. ...Ng6 2. Qxf7 mate and if the knight on f7 moves, 2. Qg5 mate.
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