Jess Toldoya, left, nipped Dennis Gonzales in the Opening Round of the 2006 Palau National Chess Championship held at the premises (parking area) of Jean's Boutique and Store on March 19. It's the first ever National Championship in Palau with the winner to become the first National Master of Palau.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
JESS, JOSE, EDWIN, CYRIL, BOY
WIN ON OPENING DAY
THE OPENING DAY of the first Palau National Chess
Championship produced some stunning victories by top seeds with 11th
seed Jess Toldoya whipping 10th seed Dennis Gonzales and 2nd
seed Jose Omega subduing 4th seed Roberto Hernandez in 34 moves of
Sicilian Dragon (Yugoslav Attack).
THE MOVES: Hernandez,
Roberto (2134) - Omega, Jose (2157) [B75]
2006 PNCC (1), 19.03.2006
1. e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4
Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.Bc4 a6 8.f3 Nc6 9.h4 Nxd4 10.Bxd4 Qc7 11.Bb3 Be6 12.g4
Bxb3 13.axb3 e5 14.Be3 h5 15.g5 Nd7 16.Qd5 Nb6 17.Qa5 0–0 18.Bxb6 Qd7 19.0–0–0
Rac8 20.Nd5 Rc6 21.Nf6+ Bxf6 22.gxf6 Rfc8 23.Rh2 Qe6 24.Bd8 Qxb3 25.Qd2 Kh7
26.Be7 Qa2 27.c3 Rb6 28.Qd5 Qa1+ 29.Kd2 Qxb2+ 30.Ke1 Qxc3+ 31.Kf2 Kg8 32.Rd3
Rb2+ 33.Kg3 Qe1+ 34.Kh3 Qf1+ 0–1
Third
seed Cyril Montel, Jr. trounced one of Palauan bets 9th seed Morton
Sawaichi with 7th seed blitz specialist Edwin Eti clobbering 6th
seed Manny Nedic.
Venue
host and 8th seed Gene Pastrana bowed to top seed Menandro ‘Boy’
Manuel and Sawaichi and Gonzales played their 2nd round game with
the latter prevailing in the last game of the day, March 19, 2006.
THE MOVES: Pastrana, Eugenio (1938) -
Manuel, Menandro (2139) [C45]
2006 PNCC (1), 19.03.2006
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4
Nxd4 5.Qxd4 d6 6.Bc4 Qf6 7.Qd1 Qg6 8.Qf3 Nf6 9.Nc3 a6 10.a4 Be7 11.h3 0–0
12.0–0 Nd7 13.Bf4 Ne5 14.Bxe5 dxe5 15.Rfd1 Be6 16.Bd3 c6 17.b3 Kh8 18.Kh1 Bc5
19.Ne2 f5 20.Rf1 fxe4 21.Qxe4 Qxe4 22.Bxe4 Bxf2 23.Kh2 Be3 24.Rad1 Bc5 25.Ng3
g6 26.Ne2 Kg7 27.Nc1 Rxf1 28.Rxf1 Rf8 29.Rxf8 Kxf8 30.Kg3 Ke7 31.Kf3 Bd5 32.g4
Ke6 33.Nd3 Be7 34.Nf2 b5 35.axb5 cxb5 36.Nd3 a5 37.Nc1 a4 38.bxa4 bxa4 39.Bxd5+
Kxd5 40.Ke2 e4 41.Na2 Bf6 42.Kd2 a3 43.Nb4+ Kc4 44.Na2 Bg5+ 45.Ke2 Kd4 46.Kd1
Ke3 47.c4 Kd4 48.c5 Kxc5 49.Kc2 Kd4 50.Kb3 Be7 51.Nc1 Ke3 52.Kc2 Kf2 53.Kb3 e3
54.Ka2 e2 55.Nd3+ Kf1 56.g5 e1Q 57.Nxe1 Kxe1 58.h4 h5 0–1
After
the regular games were finished, the remaining players set up a blitz chess competition
among 8 players –Manuel, Montel, Jr., Hernandez, Nedic, Eti, Pastrana, Jimmy
Valenzuela (who arrived late and didn’t play a single game in the opening
round) and Bong Alipoon, who will skip this tourney because he’s having a
vacation in Philippines. Jose Omega didn’t participate because he is working
without a day off for 8 years. His employer took it literally (the word “day
off”). According to him, Jose is day off every day because he works at night
time (from 6pm-2am) so he is day off all day long. Jess Toldoya also skipped
this blitz tourney.
After
7 rounds of this single round-robin event, Nedic and Eti emerged victorious
with an identical 5 points total with Nedic scoring 5 wins, 2 losses and no
draws while Eti had 4 wins, a loss and 2 draws. Hernandez and Alipoon finished
tied at 3rd and 4th with 4 wins and 3 losses slate.
Valenzuela
is at solo 5th with 3-3-1 record with Montel, Jr. at solo 6th
with 3-4-0 card. At 7th is the off form Manuel, who had 2-4-1 for
2.5 points while the 12th place position belongs to venue host
Pastrana with 0-5-2 record.
The
elected Palau Chess Federation Chairman Francis ‘Sno’ Temaungil didn’t play a
single game on opening day. He will catch up next week and will try to play at
least 2 games.
Source: Chess Mate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau
Newspaper
Pages 9-10
Volume 15
Issue 13
March 24-31,
2006
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