GLOBAL FIRST FOR ANY SPORT --
W. C. C. MATCH, LIVE IN 360° VIRTUAL REALITY
The World Chess Championship Match,
to take place in New York in November of 2016, is to be broadcast live in 360°
Virtual Reality, a global first for any sport. The VR broadcast of the Match,
which will take place between Magnus Carlsen of Norway and his challenger
Sergey Karjakin of Russia, will be exclusively available through
Worldchess.com.
THE NEW TOP 7 OF PALAU
EXACTLY as it was published last week, the new Top 7
chess players of Palau has been released and published at www.fide.com with Cyril Tomas Montel, Jr. still
on top with 1845 FIDE rating for the month of October 2016. At No. 2 (not No. 3
as reported last week) is Roberto Hernandez with 1782 rating, minus 16 from his
previous 1798 September rating. Although he is the highest scorer of the Palau
Chess Team to Baku, Azerbaijan Chess Olympiad, his current rating is still
ahead by 3 rating points to No. 3 Tito Cabunagan (1779), who together with
Montel, Jr., didn’t participate in the Olympiad due to varying reasons.
Jeff
Balbalosa lost 19 rating points but still hang on at No. 4 with 1749 from his
previous 1768 while Allan Alcid lost the most number of rating points (66) due
to his inability to score points from rated international opponents but
nevertheless keep the No. 5 slot at 1684 from his previous 1750.
Paquito
Suringa, Jr. hangs on to No. 6 due to the fact that the slot was left by CM
Bernardo Garcia, lost 32 rating points to drop from 1712 to 1680. Like Alcid,
he didn’t score a win in the Olympiad against rated international opponents.
Palau
first Woman National Master (WNM) Angelica Parrado occupied the number 7 slot
but because there will be Women, Reserves and Junior Division in the coming
2016 Palau National Chess Championship, the No. 7 slot belongs to Angelo
Salvadora with 1643, 14 points ahead of Olympian Dennis Gonzales, who lost 22
rating points to drop at No. 9 with 1629. Nilo de Jesus (1591) completed the
new Top 10 of Palau.
The
qualifying tilt to select the No. 8, 9 10 of the Top 10 Division will start on
Oct. 02, at Bethlehem Park for registration, practice and preparation for the
competitors that will include Dennis. For him to be able to participate again
in the 2018 World Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia, he needs to qualify in
this event.
According
to Salvadora, there is a good chess player working at the newly-open The Cove
Resort that will join the qualifying event. Expected to join the fray aside
from Dennis and Nilo are Gonzalo Escapatoria, Jr., Arnolfo Inres, Rafael
Paloma, Eugene Labarda, Manuel Mahor, Jr., Glen Navarroza, John Mark Tamayo,
Joel Gemota, John Malinao and the come-backing Flavin ‘Matlab’ Andres.
Hernandez
will suggest having the numbering of the Top 10 Division be drawn on Sunday
with the No. 8, 9, and 10 vacant so that the Top 10 Division can start together
with the qualifying tilt to end that division earlier so that the 2
participants of 2017 Oceania Zonal Chess Championship (Cabunagan and Montel,
Jr.) can finish their games ahead. The OZCC will be held in Auckland, New
Zealand on Jan. 14-20, 2017.
As
agreed in the later part of the Palau Chess Federation Board Meeting on Sept.
21, 2016, the 3 Gift Certificates of dinner for 2, given to Roberto by Palau
Royal Resort GM Masayuki Kawaguchi, will be used on Sat. Oct. 08, 2016 with all
the Palau Chess Team members in Baku Olympiad to have buffet dinner at PRR’s
Waves Restaurant including Tito and Cyril for a meeting/reunion.
The
Olympians are Eric Ksau Surangel Whipps (Delegate), Roberto Hernandez (Team
Captain/Player), Jeff Balbalosa (Player), Dennis Gonzales (Player), Allan Alcid
and Pax (both players).
A
little misunderstanding occurred when Roberto gave one gift certificate to Pax
and have to get it back because Pax didn’t bring 25 brochures that Roberto will
use to promote PRR to the Olympiad participants. The link for the complete
story is: http://palau-chess.blogspot.com/2016/09/1272-complimentary-certificates.html
Solution to last week’s puzzle No. 3488: 1. Qc3!! bxc3 2.
Ra4 mate.
Sources: Chess Mate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 9 & 11
Volume 25
Issue 79
October 03, 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 -- October 03, 2016
The History of Chess in Palau
By Roberto Hernandez
June 09, 2002 -- October 03, 2016
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