NEWEST PCF MEMBERS
Aome (Apple of my Eye) Jacob Angeles, left, and his mom Jennifer Angeles
are the 2 newest members Palau Chess Federation. Their first serious chess
tournament participation will be tested on Nov. 20, the 2nd week of
the ongoing 2016 PNCC. GOOD LUCK TO MOTHER AND SON! Stories about them here:http://palau-chess.blogspot.com/2016/11/1298-little-knowledge-is-dangerous.html
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
ROUND 1 WINNERS OF 2016 PNCC
Top 10 Division
TOP
SEED Cyril Tomas Montel, Jr. clobbered 6th seed Paquito Suringa, Jr.
in 50 moves of Queen’s Gambit Accepted in the first decided game of Round 1 of
2016 PNCC Top 10 Division. Cyril won a knight on the 38th move and
hang on to his advantage. He forced the exchange of rooks that will leave him
with a pawn promotion and more advantage.
The
Tito Cabunagan vs. Manuel Mahor, Jr. match was not recorded in Chessbase
because Roberto Hernandez didn’t get their score sheets, in which Tito won.
Among the 3 games played on Sunday, Nov. 13, the Angie Parrado-Sisior vs.
Roberto took the most numbers of minutes played although Angie started the
clock of Roberto, who is attending the wedding reception of Allan Alcid at
Korean Restaurant nearby, to put pressure on him for being late.
With
25 minutes disadvantage in time, Roberto was able to equalize in time on the 23rd
move after Angie missed some winning lines like 14. g5. Facing the loss of her
queen on the 35th move, Angie resigned in their Dutch Defense game
with White’s unusual 2nd move. THE MOVES:
Parrado-Sisior,
Angelica (1655) - Hernandez, Roberto (1782) [A80]
2016 PNCC Top 10 Division
(1), 13.11.2016
1. d4 f5 2.e3 Nf6 3.Bd3 e6 4.Qe2 Bd6
5.f4 b6 6.h3 Bb7 7.Nd2 Nc6 8.a3 0–0 9.Ngf3 Nh5 10.Qf2 Be7 11.Nf1 h6 12.g4 fxg4
13.hxg4 Nf6 14.Qg3 Qe8 15.Bd2 Na5 16.Qh3 Be4 17.Ke2 Qg6 18.Rg1 c5 19.Ne5 Qh7
20.Ng3 c4 21.f5 cxd3+ 22.Nxd3 Nc4 23.Nf4 Bf3+ 24.Ke1 Bxg4 25.Qh2 exf5 26.Ngh5
Ne4 27.Bb4 Bxb4+ 28.axb4 g5 29.Nd5 Qf7 30.Ndf6+ Nxf6 31.Nxf6+ Qxf6 32.Qg2 Nxe3
33.Qd2 Rae8 34.Kf2 Nxc2 35.Rad1 Re2+
0–1
The other 2 games of the first round
were played already with Alcid prevailing over Rustum Cabuso and Jeff Balbalosa
upending Gonzalo Escapatoria, Jr. in Nov. 9 and 11 respectively.
Round 2 on Nov. 20 will feature Tito
vs. Roberto; Jun Mahor vs. Angie; Cyril vs. Jeff and Rustum vs. Gonzalo. The
Alcid-Suringa game was played already in Oct. 19, 2016—a draw.
Palau’s Head of
Delegation in 2016 Baku Olympiad Joselito Marcos gave Roberto his
soon-to-be-released book “Memoirs of a Chess Amateur – My Memorable Games and
Compositions” during the Olympiad and signed it at NAIA airport in Manila that
notes: “To: My BFF Robert, Here’s wishing that this book helps you progress in
chess aside from knowing me more. Sincerely, (signed) Joselito Marcos
09/15/2016.”
The last page is a very
impressive resume of this chess amateur:
___An undefeated national chess champion of Papua New
Guinea (2003), twice representative to Oceania Zonal Championship—Gold Coast,
Australia (2009) and Rotorua, New Zealand (2011), twice an Olympian—Bled,
Slovenia(2002) and Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia (2010)—the second playing on top
board, Joselito Marcos considered himself simply as a chess amateur.
___Early in his playing career, he experienced and
witnessed injustices that derailed his playing career but later relished the
sweetness of vindication that enhanced his reputation as a no mean tournament
player, an outstanding trainer, an inspiring coach, a fair and objective
arbiter and an organizer par excellence.
___He gained a local reputation as an opening theoretician
having written a monograph on the Polugaevsky Variation of the Sicilian Defense
and as endgame specialist—his favorite phase of the game. He admits having
difficulty with the middle game—being indecisive at times (which the late
International Master Ruben Rodriguez spotted quickly saying “you lack
courage!”). Nevertheless one could find lots of risk-taking and tactical
combinations in his games, some which he played with reckless abandon, hardly a
trait of one who is wanting in bravery.
___He has more than good working knowledge in chess
openings such as the Sicilian Defense (Najdorf, Richter-Rauzer, Opecensky,
Polugaevsky, Sozin Velimirovic Attack, Scheveningen, Sveshnikov, Dragon
Variation), Ruy Lopez (Chigorin, Breyer, Zaitzev, Marshall Attack, Riga Variation,
Open, Exchange Variations), Two Knights Defense and Max Lange Attack, French
Defense (Winawer, Poisoned Pawn, Advance, Tarrasch Variations), Caro-Kann
Defense, London System, Pirc and Modern Defense, English Opening, Reti Opening,
Queen’s Gambit Declined, Queen’s Pawn Opening (Torre, Trompovsky), King’s
Indian Defense, Gruenfeld Defense, Modern Benoni, Slav and Semi-Slav Defense,
that will put to a stern test any local masters. Name any opening he has had
probably played it at least once.
___This is the bitter-sweet account of his chess journey
starting from the time he learned the game through self-study at a late age of
14 to his participation to his first real international competition at age 44.
His accomplishments may be less than those of accomplished professionals but
they certainly were more than those of regular club players. He is more of an
unassuming chess connoisseur rather than an unskillful amateur.
More
impressive is “ABOUT THE AUTHOR”:
Joselito Marcos, a FIDE Candidate Master, (a title which
the World Chess Federation awarded him retroactively in 2012 for his
performance in the Bled Olympiad in 2002 where he scored the most number of
wins for the PNG team, 5 ½ out of 9 points—a total output that was just short
of one-half point for an outright FIDE Master title), was the lone certified
arbiter of the defunct Philippine Chess Federation in Central Luzon region in
his home country prior to his sojourn to Papua New Guinea in 1996. He is the
founding president of Nueva Ecija Woodpushers Society and of Nueva Ecija Chess
Arbiters Association, both in his home country.
He
is also an accomplished problemist having composed numerous chess problems that
were published both in local newspaper chess columns and in international chess
magazines such as Chess Life and Stratagems. He is the acknowledged chess
problem consultant of the Hong Kong
Standard, South China Morning Post, Manila Times, Philippine Star, Today and
Chess Plaza Weekender.
Solution
to last week’s puzzle No. 8 by Joselito Marcos: 1. Ba6 Kxe5 2. Bb7 Ke4 3. Kd6
mate.
Published in Philippine
Star-Philippines July 30, 1994
This week’s puzzle No. 9 by Joselito Marcos: 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 93
November 21, 2016
Chess and Music (Perfect Combination)
The Beginning of Chess in Palau
By Roberto Hernandez
Soon to be published as a book
Memoirs of a Chess Amateur
My Memorable Games and Compositions
By CM Joselito Marcos
Page 429 (Original Compositions)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Last page
Music and Me by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
March 15, 2012 -- April 18, 2013
http://palau-chess.blogspot.com
April 25, 2013 -- November 21, 2016
The History of Chess in Palau
By Roberto Hernandez
June 09, 2002 -- November 21, 2016
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