: THE PLACE WHERE ROBERTO PRACTICES WITH CHESS
FRIENDS
The house that Roberto has
built from his savings working in Bahrain for 2 years and 3 months (1987-1989)
is the chess practice area in preparation for local tournaments and 1990
Philippine National Chess Championship. Roberto’s wife Flor, left, was visited
by Nady Tagubar, middle, a neighbor in Palau for many years. Nady’s husband,
Engineer Rudy Tagubar designed the Image Restaurant where Roberto worked for 13
years.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
THE 1991 SOUTH MANILA
CHESS CLUB OPEN
(Latest from 2016 Baku Chess Olympiad)
AFTER the successful 1991 1st BBBC Chess
Tourney, Roberto Hernandez is ready for another local chess tournament – the
1991 South Manila Chess Club Open Chess Tournament to be held from April 27-May
05, 1991. An old local guy from Muntinlupa City, where Roberto resides, used to
practice with Roberto before the event. He’s very forgetful and had a lot of
reasoning which most of the times are impractical.
Thirty
participants have already registered when Roberto enlisted. Three more
contestants made it to make the field at 34 in this 7-round Swiss system chess
festival. Twelve of the entrees are Not Rated (NR) and the top seed is… no
other than the player which Roberto has beaten in the final round of BBBC Chess
tourney—Ramon Ragas, with a national rating of 2025. Roberto is seed 22 with
1875 rating. The champion of BBBC tourney, Angelo Agbuya, is also participating
in this event and is seeded 5th at 1975 likewise Ferdie Casabuena
and Angelo Cuison.
THE
PLAYERS (Their Rating and seed in alphabetical order):
1. Ablay, Jaime (1920) 4th seed; 2. Agbuya, Angelo (1975) 5; 3. Arancana, Dondong
(NR); 4. Argane, Marlon (1900) 19; 5. Barbon, Roland (1975) 6; 6. Barbon,
Ronald (1935) 13; 7. Bulawan, Edwin (NR) 8. Cabus, Ferdinand (1900) 20; 9.
Calma, Benjamin (NR) 10. Casabuena, Ferdie (1980) 4; 11. Cayone, Rolando (NR)
12. Cruz, Arturo dela (NR) 13. Cruz, Rolando “Totoy” dela (1920) 15; 14.
Cuison, Angelo (1990) 3; 15. Dolleton, Virgilio (NR) 16. Dondon, Isagani (NR)
17. Esguerra, Jun (1950) 10; 18. Estrada, Jessie (NR) 19. Guzman, Ruben de (1950)
9; 20. Lansangan, Boy (1960) 8; 21. Lee, Manny (1920) 12;
22. Leysa, Ferdinand (1975) 7; 23. Lontok, Rodel (1920)
16; Macasinag, Leandro (NR) 24. Macasinag, Leland (NR) 25. Paguio, Al (1950)
11; 26. Perez, Teofilo (1995) 2; 28. Ragas, Ramon (2025) 1; 29. Tagnia,
Roderick (1920) 17; 30. Vinzon, Romy (1910) 18; 31. Hernandez, Roberto (1875)
22; 32. Legaspi, Renato (NR) 33. Defensor, Larry (1900) 21; 34. Angeles, Val
(NR).
There
were only 2 recorded games in this event—the 5th and 6th
round games of Roberto against Edwin Bulawan and Ferdinand Cabus. THE MOVES:
Bulawan,
Edwin - Hernandez, Roberto (1875) [B12]
1991 SMCC Chess Open (5),
03.05.1991
1. e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 e6 4.f4 Qh4+
5.g3 Qd8 6.Nf3 Nd7 7.Bg2 c5 8.0–0 cxd4 9.Nxd4 Bc5 10.c3 Ne7 11.Kh1 0–0 12.Nd2
Bxd4 13.cxd4 Nf5 14.Nb3 Qb6 15.Qd3 a5 16.a4 Nb8 17.Be3 Nc6 18.Bd2 Nb4 19.Bxb4
Qxb4 20.Ra3 Bd7 21.Nc5 Bc6 22.Rd1 Qxb2 23.Rb3 Qf2 24.Rbb1 Rfb8 25.Rb3 b6 26.Na6
Bxa4 27.Nxb8 Bxb3 28.Qxb3 Rxb8 29.Qc3 Ne3 30.Rg1 Nxg2 31.Rxg2 Qf1+ 32.Rg1 Qc4
33.Qb2 b5 34.g4 a4 35.f5 b4 36.Qd2 Qc3 37.Qf4 a3 38.fxe6 fxe6 39.Rf1 Qc7 40.h4
b3 41.h5 b2 0–1
Cabus,
Ferdinand (1900) - Hernandez, Roberto (1875) [B18]
1991 SMCC Open Chess (6),
04.05.1991
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4
Bf5 5.Ng3 Bg6 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Qd2 e6 8.0–0–0 Nd5 9.a3 b5 10.c4 bxc4 11.Bxc4 Nd7
12.Bd3 Rb8 13.Bxg6 hxg6 14.N1e2 Qb6 15.Nc3 N7f6 16.Na4 Qb3 17.Qc2 Nxe3 18.Qxc6+
Nd7 19.fxe3 Qxe3+ 20.Kb1 Bxa3 21.Ne4 0–0 22.Nec3 Nb6 23.Rhe1 Qf2 24.Ne4 Qf5
25.Rf1 Qd5 26.Qxd5 exd5 27.Nec5 Nxa4 28.Nxa4 Rb4 29.Rf3 Rxa4 30.Rxa3 Rxa3
31.bxa3 Re8 32.Kc2 Re3 33.Rd3 Rxd3 34.Kxd3 f5 35.Kc3 Kf7 36.Kb4 g5 37.h3 Ke6
38.Kc5 f4 39.a4 a5 40.Kb5 Kf5 41.Kxa5 Ke4 42.Kb4 Kxd4 43.a5 Ke3 44.a6 Kf2 45.a7
Kxg2 46.a8Q Kxh3 47.Qxd5 g4 48.Qh1+ Kg3 49.Kc3 f3 50.Kd3 Kf4 51.Kd2 Kg3 52.Qg1+
Kh3 53.Ke1 g5 54.Kf2 1–0
Ragas won this event with an undefeated
record of 5 wins and 2 draws. Agbuya and Defensor are tied at 2nd
and 3rd place with an identical 5.5 points from 5 wins, a loss and a
draw slate. Three players are tied with 5 points each… Ronald Barbon, Casabuena
and Cuison while 7 players finished with 4 points –Arancana, Cabus, Dondon,
Leysa, Leland Macasinag, Perez and Vinzon.
Four players earned 3.5 points
–Argame, Roland Barbon, Lansangan and Legaspi while Hernandez is next with 3
points together with Lee. Bulawan and Tagnia get 2.5 points while 3 players are
tied with 2 points each –Estrada, de Guzman and Lontok. Two players have 1.5
points each – (Top and bottom in the list) Ablay and Angeles while another 3
players got 1 point –Cayone, Leandro Macasinag and Paguio.
Hernandez missed the Candidate
Master title in the 2016 World Chess Olympiad in Baku, Azerbaijan 4 times in a
row when he failed to score the elusive win for a total of 3.5 points in 6
games when he lost a drawn game against his Somali opponent Hubert Ble Kouko,
who has 3.5 points in 5 games. Hernandez opponent for that round is supposed to
be at board 3 with no victory yet but team captain CM Joselito Marcos and
Hernandez failed to submit the players’ line-up for that round before 10am.
Failure to submit it means that the top 4 boards (Paquito Suringa, Jr., Allan
Alcid, Jeff Balbalosa and Roberto will play respectively. It’s supposed to be
Paquito, Jeff, Roberto and Dennis at board 4.
WHEN IT’S NOT MEANT TO BE, IT’S
NOT MEANT TO BE – As Roberto lost 3 in a row to miss the CM title. The last one
is against Bermuda’s Don Dacres on the 10th round on Sept. 12, 2016.
The final round will be played on Sept. 13 at 11am with Palau facing Djibouti
in the Open section with USA leading with 3 of the top 10 players in the world –Fabiano
Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So spearheading the toughest ever American
team.
Vintage Filipino GM Eugenio
Torre scored 9 points in 10 games from 8 wins and 2 draws for 90% performance.
Philippines is facing Australia in the final round.
Solution to last week’s puzzle
No. 3460: 1. Qb1 or Qb6… Any move by black 2. Qb8 mate.
This
week’s puzzle No. 3461: White to move and mates in 2 (Solution next issue).
Sources: Chess Mate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 9-10
Volume 25
Issue 85
September 12, 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 18, 2013
http://palau-chess.blogspot.com
April 25, 2013 -- September 12, 2016
The History of Chess in Palau
By Roberto Hernandez
June 09, 2002 -- September 12, 2016
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