No. 2 Cyril Tomas Montel, Jr.
No. 3 Tito Cabunagan
No. 5 CM Bernardo Garcia
No. 7 Dennis Gonzales
No. 8 Allan Alcid
No. 9 Angelo Salvadora
THE NEW TOP 10 ACTIVE CHESS PLAYERS OF PALAU
These Top 10 players will play in the single round-robin format at the 2015 Palau National Chess Championship. The rest will play in the Reserves Division in Swiss System format. The Women and Junior Divisions will be combined due to shortness of participants in both divisions.
ALCID'S PERFET 3RD WEEK QUALIFIED HIM, SALVADORA AND MAHOR, JR. TO TOP 10
TRAILING by just half point to leader
Angelo Salvadora, Allan Alcid scored a perfect 3 out of 3 final games in the
final day of 2015 Top 3 Qualifying chess tournament to determine the No. 8, 9
and 10th spot of Palau's top 10 chess players. Nilo de Jesus has to be
informed of his game vs. Angie Parrado while he is watching basketball game at
Palau National Gymnasium while Glen Navarroza is up against Josef Karlo Moyet.
The 7th
round crucial game for both Arnolfo Inres and Angelo Salvadora resulted in the poor
last rounds performance by Inres that cause him the slot to be in the Top 10.
John Mark Tamayo will try to redeem himself from 0-3 card last week and is up
vs. Sofronia Mahor, with 2 ladies in the background. One of them is Joan
Gemota, the 3rd placer in the Unrated Chess Tournament 2 months ago.
After losing to Nilo de Jesus in
the 7th round, Angie Parrado suffered another setback to Moyet. The same fate
happens to Inres, who lost his 2nd game to Tamayo. De Jesus is on a roll and
defeated the leader Salvadora while Alcid clobbered Sofronio 'Pons' Mahor for
his 2nd straight win likewise. Manuel Mahor, Jr. derailed Glen Navarroza's bid to be
in the Top 10 with a win after his 7th round loss to Alcid.
Tamayo
dealt Inres his 2nd loss that virtually knocked Inres out of contention for the
Top 10 list. The skidding Inres lost all his 7th, 8th and 9th round games.
Moyet did a good job in the last 3 rounds by defeating Navarroza and Parrado
but lost to Mahor, Jr. in the last round to finish tied for 5th. The victory of
Mahor, Jr. paved the way for his exciting 9th round match against Salvadora,
that whoever wins, the 2nd place is there for the taking.
The run for another perfect day
for Salvadora was snapped by Nilo de Jesus, whose 3-game win streak was snapped
at the other end by Alcid in the final (9th) round. The perfect 3-game sweep of
the final day by Alcid gave him the title.
THE FINAL
ROUND HAVE ONLY 4 GAMES AS THERE IS CONFUSION IN THE LATE ENTRY OF NILO DE
JESUS AND MAHOR, JR.: At Board 1, Mahor, Jr. vs. Moyet, 2. Alcid vs. De Jesus
3. Inres vs. Mahor, S and 4. Tamayo vs. Parrado. The Salvadora vs. Mahor, Jr.
and Navarroza vs. Tamayo's games have to wait.
THE
EXCITING EXTRA 2 GAMES WERE PLAYED BETWEEN SALVADORA AND MAHOR, JR. (BOTH WITH
5 POINTS APIECE) AND NAVARROZA VS. TAMAYO.
Since Navarroza lost both to Salvadora and Mahor, he cannot win in the tiebreak (Direct Encounter or Winner-Over-The-Other) against the 2 even if he would win his game against Tamayo. Knowing the situation, Glen played lackluster and lost to give away an important win for Tamayo, who finished 6th. Moyet and Pons Mahor both finished with 4.5 points each but the tiebreak goes to Mahor as he defeated Moyet in the 2nd round.
Since Navarroza lost both to Salvadora and Mahor, he cannot win in the tiebreak (Direct Encounter or Winner-Over-The-Other) against the 2 even if he would win his game against Tamayo. Knowing the situation, Glen played lackluster and lost to give away an important win for Tamayo, who finished 6th. Moyet and Pons Mahor both finished with 4.5 points each but the tiebreak goes to Mahor as he defeated Moyet in the 2nd round.
FINAL STANDINGS AND THEIR WIN-LOSS-DRAW RECORD:
1. Allan Alcid (7-2-0) 2. Angelo Salvadora (6-3-0) 3. Manuel Mahor, Jr. (5-4-0) 4. Sofronio Mahor (4-4-1) 5. Josef Karlo Moyet (4-4-1) 6. John Mark Tamayo (4-4-1) 7. Glen Navarroza (4-5-0) 8. Arnolfo Inres (3-5-1) 9. Nilo de Jesus (3-6-0) 10. Angelica Parrado (2-5-2).
AWARDING
OF CASH PRIZES AND MEDALS FOR THE TOP 3 FINISHERS WILL BE HELD ON OCT. 04, 2015
AT BETHLEHEM PARK.
The
format of the 2015 Palau National Chess Championship will be discussed during
the awarding. Jeff Balbalosa and Tito Cabunagan will be back from participating
in the 2015 Datu Arthur Tan Malaysian Open (DATMO) with Jeff bringing in the
medals for the Top 3 Qualifying Chess Tourney winners.
Solution
to last week’s puzzle No. 3788: 1. Qxg7+!! Kxg7 2. Rg5+ Kh8 3. Bf6 mate.
This
week’s puzzle No. 3789: White to move and mates in 3 (Solution next issue)
Source: Chess Mate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 9-10
Volume 24
Issue 80
October 05, 2015
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