CHESS AND MUSIC (Part 7) – Father and Son
I met an Israeli family at Water Paradise
of Airai View Hotel during the bonding party of Executive, HR and Sales and
Marketing Department of PRR. The guy, Amir, plays chess but not professionally.
His wife, Liat, is interested in me teaching their son Liam drums at PMCC. Liam
is the first 2 letters of the names of the couple. I told them that I taught
Liam Bornovski guitar and piano and he is the son of Tova and Navot Bornovski.
Liat knew Tova through internet and haven’t met her yet.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
ALCID FINISHED 2016 PNCC 7/9
MY
teammate in the 2016 World Chess Olympiad in Baku, Azerbaijan, Allan Alcid
scored 7 points in 9 games in the ongoing 2016 Palau National Chess
Championship’s Top 10 Division before going to Philippines with his newly
wedded wife on Fri., Dec. 02, 2016.
He
played his 2 remaining games at Palau Royal Resort’s Dormitory 1 against
Gonzalo ‘Jojo’ Escapatoria, Jr. on Wed. Nov. 30 in which he won in just 27
moves of French Defense (Exchange Variation) and a shorter 19-move conquest of
Angelica Parrado-Sisior of Sicilian Defense.
With
my loss to Escapatoria, Jr. on Mon. Nov. 28, the only player that can catch up now
with Allan is the undefeated top seed Cyril Tomas Montel, Jr., who has 3.5
points in 4 games. We will be playing our crucial 4th round game on
Sunday, Dec. 4 at Bethlehem Park while the other games fit Jeff Balbalosa vs.
Jun Mahor and Tito Cabunagan vs. Escapatoria.
The
sad part of Allan and his wife’s departure is the lack of consideration of
their employer. Allan is offered to renew his contract while his wife’s
contract is not renewed. They just got married on Nov. 13 and with this
inconsiderate decision of their employer, they have no choice but to be together
“IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH, FOR RICHER OR POORER.”
When
this 2016 PNCC concludes on Jan. 22, 2017 and Allan became the champion, he
automatically qualifies as member of Palau Chess Team to the 2018 World Chess
Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia. He wrote me a text message on the eve of his
departure that say,”Sir Robert, I just want to say goodbye. I’ll be leaving
tonight and I promise to be back as long as there’s an opportunity for me
towork here. Thank you very much for you support, help and advises to me. I’m
leading and finished strong in this ongoing tournament. I hope I will be the
champion in the end. Thanks again, Kuya Robert, hope to see you soon. I wrote
him back a text message saying, “Good luck, Allan. If you became the champion,
please try to come back here in Palau because you’re an asset already of Palau
Chess Team. The Batumi Olympiad in 2018 is an election year that’s why we’re
sure we will have sponsors.”
This
brilliancy is going round the chess world, has made many chess fans fully aware
of the new Indian talent, and has been compared to Bobby Fischer’s Game of the
Century against Donald Byrne in 1963. That game, played in New York 60 years
ago this month, was of much higher quality with deeply calculated knight and
queen sacrifices, but Fischer was 13 against 11 while Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa’s
last dozen or so moves were almost all the first choice of the computer and he
saw and was ready for the better defenses missed by his opponent. His victory
is sure to become part of chess lore and be quoted in future as a classic
example of dynamic attack.
Palau
first titled player CM Bernardo Garcia thought that CM Joselito Marcos is using
computer analyses. Marcos uses chess programs to check his analyses. He
emphasized, “Most of the time, computer analyses are stronger continuations but
still some of the moves I choose both in actual games and analyses, whether the
game is won, drawn or lost, is enough to win, draw, or offer stiffer resistance
in a losing game. ON-THE-BOARD ANALYSIS IS DIFFERENT FROM POST-MORTEM BE IT
IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE GAME OR DONE AT HOME WITH THE LUXURY OF TIME.”
Solution
to last week’s puzzle No. 10 by CM Joselito Marcos: 1. Qh8 a4 2. Rb1 g4 3. Qb2
Bf5 4. Qxb7# Published in Today, Philippines-March
23, 1995. (Nobody solves this puzzle. Sorry for the error—it’s mate in 4 not 3)
This
week’s puzzle No. 12: White to move and mates in 5 (Solution next issue)
($5.00 reward each this time to the first 5 persons who can solve this)
Sources: Chess Mate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 9-10
Volume 25
Issue 97
December 08, 2016
Chess and Music (Perfect Combination)
The Beginning of Chess in Palau
By Roberto Hernandez
Soon to be published as a book
Music and Me by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
March 15, 2012 -- April 18, 2013
http://palau-chess.blogspot.com
April 25, 2013 -- December 08, 2016
Memoirs of a Chess Amateur
My Memorable Games and Compositions
By CM Joselito Marcos
Page 429
The History of Chess in Palau
By Roberto Hernandez
June 09, 2002
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