AFTER CHESS AND TABLE TENNIS, IT’S DART NOW AT PRR
Half
of the 34 Participants of PRR Dart Tourney—Standing (L-R) Chris Ubay, Felix
Oling, Jr., Paquito Suringa, Jr., Marc Joseph Sandoval, Jay Orio, John Lloyd,
?, Ramil, Steven and Eli.com. Squatting (L-R) Jess David, Rico, Brian Kline
Labrador, Ryan Camero, Marlou, Herbie and Chris de Lima.
(Photo by Marc Joseph Sandoval)
JEFF IS 2016 PBCC Champ;
Dart Tourney among PRR Employees
FINALLY, Jeff Balbalosa claimed his first National Chess
Championship title but in the Blitz format after topping the 2016 Palau Blitz
Chess Championship at Surangel Campaign Headquarters at the premises of Mason’s
Hardware on Feb. 28, the same date of TFCP Election of officers for 2016-2017.
Prior
to the penultimate and final round, top seed Cyril Tomas Montel, Jr. is leading
with 4.5 in 5 games while 2nd seed Tito Cabunagan and 3rd
seed Roberto Hernandez have 3 points each going into the last 2 rounds of this
7-round Swiss system event that started on Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14) at
Bethlehem Park. The 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th
and 7th rounds were played at the Headquarters.
Cyril
is on his way to his 6th consecutive national chess championships,
if he would win even one of his 2 remaining games. But it’s not meant to be. He
overlooked an illegal move by his last round opponent, Tito, and captured a
bishop instead of pointing an illegal move by Tito, who immediately moved his
king and carried on to win in the endgame.
Cyril
also lost his 6th round game to eventual champion Jeff while Roberto
won his 6th round game against Dennis Gonzales and defeating again
the champion of the event, Jeff, like what he did in the Lightning Chess
Championship (Part 2), by defeating eventual champ Tito.
After
7 rounds, 4 players are tied at the top with 5 points each—Jeff, Roberto, Tito
and Manuel ‘Jun’ Mahor, Jr. The tiebreak were used (including winner over the
other (or direct encounter) and more number of wins) and Jeff prevailed over
the 3, with Tito at 2nd and Mahor, Jr. at 3rd.
Roberto
is 4th and Cyril settled for 5th. He is still analyzing
his game against Tito while the 3 medals are being awarded to the top 3
finishers.
Arnolfo
Inres finished in solo 6th with 4 points. Tied at 7th-9th
are Rustum Cabuso, Gonzales and Glen Navarroza with 3.5 points each while at
solo 10th is Joan Gemota with 3. Josef Karlo Moyet and Joel Gemota
are tied at 11th-12th with the cellar going to Eric Ksau
Surangel Whipps and Eugene Labarda to complete the 14-player participants.
The
next Palau Chess Federation tourney is the 2016 Palau Rapid Chess Championship
that will commence on March 20 and will conclude on April 17. This 9-round and
5-week tournament has a time control of 20 minutes for each player to finish
the game with 10 seconds increment. A player must play 2 games in a week and in
the last (9th round), only one game to be followed by awarding of
medals to the top 3 finishers.
In
the 2016 Election of new officers of The Filipino Community in Palau (TFCP) on
Feb. 28, incumbent Aga David was re-elected. Roberto, who is running as one of
the Vice President of KKK Party, was 3rd with only 12 votes
separating him from the No. 2 winner Nancy Lobres, a fellow awardees in the
2009 Outstanding OFW in Palau. Roberto’s lead to his 4th placer
party mate Nonoy Arganda is only one vote! Palau No. 2 woman chess player Baby
Edna “Bheng” Mission made it to the 15 Board of Directors members. Totally, KKK
Party has 15 elected officers in their 22-candidate ticket.
Likewise
on Feb. 28, the first ever Dart Tournament among Palau Royal Resort employees
has started with Roberto losing to Dhen Flores, a bartender. Five rated chess
players of Palau are participating in this event being held at the Dormitory 1
of PRR. They are Roberto, Paquito ‘Pax’ Suringa, Jr., the dart champion of INC,
Felix Oling, Jr., Elizalde Madrinan and Jess David.
The
tourney was divided into Class A (or advanced) and Class B (or beginner)
Category. Top seeds in the Class A are Brian ‘Kline’ Labrador, who is also a
very good basketball player and Bobby Maltizo, of Main Kitchen. Included in
their category are Felix, Marc Joseph Sandoval, Pax, Chris de Lima, Rico, Ryan
Camero, Lee Lozano, Jay Orio, Gerry Medrano, Troy Manatad, Nel Lorenzo, Eli,
Chris Ubay and Renz Lim, another bartender and basketball player.
The
Category B players are Alvin Yap, Jess David, Marvin Junio, Mark Pinlac,
Rodolph Pinlac, Herbie, Kleventh John Equares, Joey Catsombo, Alfie Temporado,
Dennis Ramos, John Lloyd, Marlou, Jonathan Sta. Ana, Al, Ramil and Steven, the
lone Palauan participant.
In
the 1st round of Category A, Felix, Pax, Ryan, Jay, Troy, Kline,
Chris Ulap and Bobby won. In the next round, Ryan prevailed over Jay while
Kline defeated Bobby to set up a final match-RYAN VS. KLINE!
In
Class B, Alvin, Marvin, Herbie, Joey, Alfie, Marlou, Al and Ramil won. In the
next round, Marvin defeated Alvin, Dhen subdued Alfie and Marlou whipped Ramil
to set up a final match—MARVIN VS. MAR.
The
Doubles (Drawing of Class A player paired with Class B player) has started with
the following tandem: John Lloyd/Chris Ubay vs. Dennis/Rico; Herbie/Ryan vs.
Ramil/Renz; Marvin/Pax vs. Jess/Troy; Arvin/Lee vs. Mark P./Mark John;
Kleventh/Kline vs. Jonathan/Jay; Roberto/Gerry vs. Dhen/Eli.com; Joey/Nel vs.
Al/Chris de Lima and Rodolph/Felix vs. Steven/Bob.
The
results: Dennis/Rico, Herbie/Ryan, Marvin/Pax, Marks, Kleventh/Kline, Dhen/Eli,
Joey/Nel and Rodolph/Felix won with the Dhen/Eli vs. Roberto/Gerry match being
the most exciting one as the former quickly get ahead but struggle in the bull’s
eye. After Roberto got a single bull, followed by another single by Gerry, they
are ahead now. But Dhen scored a winning cherry bull to advance.
At
lunch time on Election Day, Roberto was asked by a lot of dart players if they
can join the tourney but it’s exclusive only for PRR employees as approved by
the management for security reasons. With the success of this event, there
might be an open one but the venue would be different.
Solution
to last week’s puzzle No. 3827: 1. Rh1+ Rh2 2. Rh7+! Nxh7 3. g7 mate.
Congratulations to Bruce Soriano for solving this puzzle a week before it was
published.
This
week’s puzzle No. 3828: White to move and mates in 3 (Solution next issue)
Sources: Chess Mate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 9-10
Volume 25
Issue 19
March 07, 2016
Chess and Music (Perfect Combination)
The Beginning of Chess in Palau
By Roberto Hernandez
To be published as a book in the future
Music and Me by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
March 15, 2012 -- April 2013
http://palau-chess.blogspot.com
April 2013--March 07, 2016
The History of Chess in Palau
By Roberto Hernandez
June 09, 2002 -- March 07, 2016
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