WORKING ON A 5-game winning streak, 2nd seed Cyril Montel, Jr. joined Jose Omega and Manuel Nedic at the top of the standings in the 12th round of 2005 Open Chess Tournament held on Sunday, August 14 at Privilege Family Store in Malakal and sponsored by Bendix N. Lakobong, Leo Lacambra, Jr. and Roswell C. Macapagal of T-Shirt Printing Atbp.
Montel, Jr. gave up a pawn and followed it up with a very neat 5-move deep combination starting with a rook sacrifice. As his opponent, Joel Azana, is facing mate in one or loss of a whole rook, he resigned as his queen is out of action for the defense in their Modern Defence game that last 30 moves. Their game is another addition for the qualification in the brilliancy game prize worth $50.00 courtesy of Lacambra, Jr., who showed the very nice trophies (6) to the Chairman of Knights and Rooks Chess Club --Hernandez.
In the first game of the day, Omega and Dennis Gonzales has to end their game as Omega's time schedule for the day is one hour earlier than the usual. A pawn down on the 48th move, Omega could have drawn the game by 3-fold repetition but opted to deviate. He sealed his 53rd move and gave it to Chairman/Arbiter (Hernandez) for resumption next week of Ruy Lopez game.
Jimmy Valenzuela had a rare 3-game winning streak after trouncing Gonzales in 25 moves of Four Knights Defence - Gioco Piano Transition. Valenzuela's luck runs out last week in the last game of blitz chess festival as he lost to Bong Alipoon in his final game. He needs just a draw to tie eventual winner Menandro Manuel, who won his last game over Lin de Guzman.
THE FINAL RESULTS OF SINGLE ROUND-ROBIN BLITZ CHESS FEST:
1. Manuel (5-1-1) 2. Valenzuela (5-2-0) 3. Roberto Hernandez (4-3-0) 4-6. Montel, Jr., Alipoon, Nedic (3-3-1) 7. Gene Pastrana (1-4-2) 8. De Guzman (1-6-0).
The latest edition of blitz chess fest produced a new and first time champion Nedic after he drew his last game against Montel, Jr. to tie Manuel for the lead but he swept Manuel to clinch the title in a winner-over-the-other tiebreak.
Hernandez placed 3rd again for the 3rd time after capturing the 2 previous tilts. Azana had played only 3 games when his ride going to Daewoo in Melekeok arrive and De Guzman continued his remaining matches.
Half of the cash prizes were spent on drinks of the participants during the start of the 2nd round of the double round-robin event.
Nedic is generous enough to spend the other half on drinks and just took $5.00 (registration fee offset).
FINAL RESULTS:
1. Nedic (8-2-2) 2. Manuel (9-3-0) 3. Hernandez (8-4-0) 4. De Guzman (5-4-3) 5. Montel, Jr. (4-7-1) 6. Valenzuela (3-7-2) 7. Gonzales (1-11-0).
Solution to last week's puzzle: 1. Kc2 b4 2. Qa1 mate. If 1. ...Ka3 2. Qa5 mate.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
Source: Chess Mate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 9-10
Volume XIV
Issue 33
August 19-26, 2005
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