: FIVE YEARS AGO
The
2011 3rd Palau Invitational Chess Championship was held at the
Conference Room of Palau Royal Resort from Dec. 14-22, 2011. The only invited
player who made it, CM Joselito Marcos, middle, and CM Bernardo Garcia, left,
are doing the ceremonial first move. Looking are (from right) NM, FI, Roberto
Hernandez, DI Paquito Suringa, Jr. and NM, NI Cyril Tomas Montel, Jr. Mr. Marcos
then created the PCF website http://palau-chess.blogspot.com now with 250,000 page views from 132
countries.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
PARRADO-SISIOR SCORES FIRST
WIN OVER GIANT-KILLER MAHOR
AUCKLAND, New Zealand-bound Palau’s first Woman National
Master (WNM) Angelica Parrado-Sisior scored her first victory in the resumption
of play in the 2016 Palau National Chess Championship’s Top 10 Division last
Sunday, Dec. 18 at Bethlehem Park.
The
event will take a 2-week break because Dec. 25 (Christmas) and Jan. 01, 2017
(New Year) both fall on a Sunday and are official holidays. The final 3 weeks
of PNCC will resume on Jan. 08, 15, and 22 while the 2017 Oceania Zonal Chess
Championship will commence on Jan. 14-20 in Auckland, New Zealand. The other
rep of Palau to the OZCC, Tito Cabunagan, didn’t play his Dec. 18 match with
top seed Cyril Tomas Montel, Jr. Both are absent with the other completed game
of 5th seed Rustum Cabuso and me took 77 moves before I committed a
blunder on the 75th move in a drawn game of rook and pawn vs. rook
endgame.
After scoring half point in the 2nd round,
Angie made sure that the whole point will not slip away against giant-killer
Manuel ‘Jun’ Mahor, Jr. with a king-hunt although she missed an outright knight
advantage on the 16th move with a better 18. Ba6+ that won her a
bishop instead. Mahor’s king travelled 7 squares till Angie’s a3 square. After
a rook check on b3, the inevitable mate on a2 forced Mahor to resign, to boost
Angie’s confidence in her first-ever OZCC participation, where she and Tito got
their electronic New Zealand visas already.
THE MOVES: Parrado-Sisior,
Angelica (1655) - Mahor, Jr., Manuel (1489) [C02]
2016 PNCC Top 10 Division
(5), 18.12.2016
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.Be2 Qb6
6.c3 Bd7 7.0–0 Nh6 8.c4 Nxd4 9.Nxd4 cxd4 10.cxd5 Bc5 11.Bd3 exd5 12.h3 0–0–0
13.a3 Qe6 14.Bf4 Nf5 15.Qc2 Qc6 16.b4 Bb6 17.Qxc6+ bxc6 18.Ba6+ Kb8 19.e6+ Bc7
20.Bxc7+ Kxc7 21.exd7 Rxd7 22.Bd3 Nd6 23.Nd2 Re8 24.Rac1 Kb6 25.a4 a6 26.Nb3 g6
27.Nxd4 Rc7 28.Rc2 f5 29.Rfc1 Rec8 30.Ne6 Re7 31.Nc5 a5 32.bxa5+ Kxa5 33.Rb1
Ne4 34.Nb3+ Kxa4 35.Na1 Ka3 36.Rb3+
1–0
Here are some
interesting statistics and facts of “An Informal Meeting of OCC Members During
the 2016 World Chess Olympiad in Baku, Azerbaijan:
Oceania Chess Confederation President Paul Spiller of New
Zealand arranged an informal meeting of its members on Sept. 10, 2016 at 10am
during the last 5 days of 2016 World Chess Olympiad in Baku, Azerbaijan and
held in a meeting room of Fairmont Hotel, where the Delegates and high ranking
officials of World Chess Federation were billeted. The Agenda of the Oceania
Zone 3.6 Meeting is as follows:
1. Apologies 2. Introduction of Delegates; 3. Report from
Al-Ain Asian Federation Meeting by Paul.
4. Chess Development in Oceania – Federation surveys and
allocation of resources. 5. Upcoming tournaments – Oceania Youth Chess
Championship; 2017 Oceania Zonal; 2017 Asian Seniors Championship 6. Oceania
Chess Confederation background and incorporation 7. General Business
The
attendees are given a few minutes to introduce themselves with Shaun Press
stating that he was born in Papua New Guinea and the current president of
PNGCF; Calvin Prasad of Fiji is playing at Board 1 of Fiji team in this
Olympiad and the previous Olympiads;
Roberto Hernandez introduced himself as
the one who pioneered chess in Palau in 2002, writing a chess column in Palau’s
first newspaper Tia Belau for 13 years, NM and FIDE Instructor;
Gary Westell of
Australia; Stuart Fancy, the vice president of PNGCF; Kevin Bonham of Australia
which I have mistakenly spelled his family name as Bohan;
Roger Orio of Guam
and the current President of Guam Echecs after Leon Ryan retires. He listed his
number +64 274 595 176; President Paul Spiller of New Zealand as well as Hilton
Bennett, who both participated in the inaugural 2006 Palau Invitational Chess
Championship in Aug. 31-Sept. 05, 2006 that started the chess boom in Palau;
and the last one to come is Asian Chess Federation Deputy President Casto
‘Toti’ Abundo, who visited Palau with FIDE C. E. O Geoffrey Borg in January
2014.
The
issues that were tackled are the under 18 chess tournaments that IM, FM, and CM
titles can be achieved. In Americas, GM norms can be achieved even in U20
tournaments.
HERE
ARE SOME INTERESTING STATISTICS:
Titled Players – Australia (151); New Zealand (42); Fiji
(11); PNG (6); Guam and Palau (1 each);
Solomon Islands and Nauru (0)
Active Rated Players in 2015 – Aus (692), NZ (155), Palau
(48), Fiji (20), Guam (12), PNG (5),
Solomon Islands and Nauru (0)
Standard Open Tournaments in 2015 – Aus (48), NZ (11),
Fiji (2), Palau (1)
Rated Games – Aus (13,959), NZ (2,293), Palau (203), Fiji
(112), Guam (98)
No. of Games by Foreigners – Aus (1,488), NZ (444), Guam
(25)
No. of Games by Players Abroad – Aus (1,224), NZ (547),
Fiji (61), PNG (41), Palau (31), Guam (7)
According
to Toti, there are 51 countries in Asia. He also said that Congressman Prospero
‘Butch’ Pichay can’t travel outside Philippines because of charges against him
by Phil. Government.
THERE
ARE MORE WOMEN PLAYERS IN PALAU THAN IN NEW ZEALAND!
Solution
to last week’s puzzle No. 2 by CM Joselito Marcos: 1. Ra1 Kxe6 2. Ra7 Ke5 3.
Re7#
If 1. …Kxe4 2. Ra3 Ke5 3. Re3#
Published in StrataGems USA, July 1999
This
week’s puzzle No. 3: White to move and mates in 4 (Solution next issue)
Sources: Chess Mate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 9 & 11
Volume 25
Issue 103
December 24, 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
Music and Me by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
March 15, 2012 -- April 18, 2013
http://palau-chess.blogspot.com
April 25, 2013 -- December 23, 2016
The History of Chess in Palau
By Roberto Hernandez
June 09, 2002 -- December 23, 2016
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