: NOT
SATISFIED WITH TIE-BREAKERS
Rustum Cabuso, 2nd from left, won the 2nd Bullet
Chess tourney in March 20 and pocketed the $6.00 champion’s purse but not
satisfied with the results of the 1st Bullet Chess tourney when he
and Jeff Balbalosa, 3rd from right (partly hidden), finished at 2nd
and 3rd respectively. Others in the photo (L-R) are Roberto
Hernandez, Gonzalo Escapatoria, Jr., Arnolfo Inres and Manuel ‘Jun’ Mahor, Jr. (Photo by Jeff Balbalosa)
2016 PRCC TO START MARCH 27
ONLY 11 players showed up in the opening day of 2016
Palau Rapid Chess Championship on March 20 at Surangel’s Campaign Headquarters
within the premises of Mason’s Hardware.
Bullet
chess was played instead with 10 participants – 1. Cyril Tomas Montel, Jr. 2.
Tito Cabunagan 3. Roberto Hernandez 4. Rustum Cabuso 5. Josef Karlo Moyet 6.
Jeff Balbalosa 7. Arnolfo Inres 8. Gonzalo Escapatoria, Jr. 9. Manuel ‘Jun’
Mahor, Jr. and 10. Glen Navarroza.
While
jogging at Palau Track & Field Oval on March 15, Roberto was able to talk
to Eugene Labarda while jogging/walking. Labarda will be having a vacation on
March 22 so he can’t participate in the 9-round Swiss system event. If it’s a
round-robin format, it is possible for him to play as many games as he can and
catch up when he comes back.
Paquito
‘Pax’ Suringa, Jr. is on duty that Sunday from 9am to 9pm. The postponement of
the opening day favors him and he can join now as it is his day off on March
27. Unfortunately, Felix Oling, Jr., who didn’t show up last Sunday, will be
going to Rock Islands and will miss again this tourney while Dennis Gonzales
paid his registration fee of $5.00 and is ready to forfeit his 1st 2
games had the original date pushed through.
The
Bullet Chess competition started so well with top seed Cyril overcoming an
overwhelming disadvantage when Tito promoted his pawn to queen, press his clock
first before the promotion. It cost him the game that became a very good lesson
to participants.
Cyril
won 8 games and lost a game to Jeff to finish with another feather in his cap.
Jeff and Rustum have an identical 7-2 card but after using the 3 tiebreakers (including
the win-over-the-other or direct encounter), Jeff prevailed as 2nd
with Rustum complaining about his win over Jeff.
Cyril
pocketed the $15.00 winner–take-all purse while the rest ($5.00) goes to Palau
Chess Federation fund. The last Bullet chess competition had Tito getting half
of the cash prize from registration fee of $2.00.
There’s
no more time to start the PRCC even with one game but the organizers decided to
hold it on March 27 instead and hold another bullet chess contest with only 6
players (Cyril, Tito, Karlo, Jeff, Jun and the eventual champion Rustum).
Later
in the night, Rustum text Roberto with this: “Good evening. Sorry but I can’t
move on. If all the games of unrated players vs. rated players will have a
tiebreaker, the winner is those only with ratings? Is that so? I can’t really
accept it (the winner-over-the-other), where I have beaten Jeff and we are tied
with 7 wins and 2 losses and then I lost in the ranking (tiebreaker).”
Rustum
didn’t realize that Jeff has beaten the top seed Cyril which accumulates many
tiebreak points in Jeff’s favor. Roberto responded the next day with this: “I
trust the Swiss Perfect software that we are using. The win over the other
tiebreak is just one of the 3 tie-breakers. On Feb. 28, 2016, final day of
Palau Blitz Chess Championship, I defeated Jeff in the last round. Four of us
finished with 5 points each—but Jeff was the champion, 2nd is Tito,
3rd is Jun and I am 4th. I didn’t complain because I know
that system of tiebreak is proven.” One of the tiebreakers is more number of
wins. Roberto has 2 draws, 4 wins and 3 losses while Jeff has more number of
wins (7).
THE ANNOTATION OF JUDIT POLGAR
IN HER GAME AGAINST DOMINGUEZ IN THE 2011 FIDE WORLD CUP CONTINUES AS FOLLOWS:
On the 97th to 102nd move, Judit comments “I had
exactly the same position at move 82, so I really made myself and my fans very
nervous.”
106.Rg2 Bd3 107.Rh2 [It is
amazing, that finally when I reached the winning position, White could have
stopped the clock and asked for a draw from the arbiter by the rule of 3 fold
repetition!! The strange thing is that Dominguez was checking the score sheet
carefully in the last 20 moves, probably for a possible repetition, but on the
other hand was not sure exactly which position really occurred 3 times. The
reality is that by making the move ¦h2 this was the third time that we had it
on the board in move 95–105 and now...Maybe he was afraid to claim because he
was not sure, if he is not correct the game stops for some minutes and I would
figure things out. Well, luck is something you need in chess as well as in
life!] 107...Bf1 [Yessss.....!!!! I did it, when I think already
everybody had given up thinking that I would be able to prove the win...]108.Rf2
Bc4 109.Rf3+ Bd3 110.Rf2 Rb3+ 111.Ka2 [111.Ka4 Rb6] 111...Rb6 112.Ka1
Rg6 [Oh I was really happy to be able to win this game and equalize the
match. I was only happy and not thinking about the following day, about the
playoff. Just enjoy the victory!][112...Rg6 113.Rg2 was the last chance but 113...Re6] 0–1
Solution to last week’s puzzle No. 3830: 1. Qh5+!!! Kxh5 2. axb7+ Kb6 3.
c8Q mate.
This
week’s puzzle No. 3831: 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 25
March 28, 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 28, 2016
The History of Chess in Palau
By Roberto Hernandez
June 09, 2002 --March 28, 2016
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