(1427) ANGELO -- FIRST QUALIFIER; LEIF -- 4TH ROUND BYE (TBN- Sept. 25, 2017)

GOSPEL MUSIC, WORDS OF GOD, BAPTISM AND CHESS

                    My roommate at PRR, Benny Billiones, 3^rd from left, experienced 4 good things in his life in one day, Sept. 17, 2017. He heard Gospel music with me and the PMCC choir, was inspired by 30 years of serving God by Pastor Gallagher Concepcion, was baptized after the service and will be featured in Chess Mate by me for the first time while watching the 3^rd round of 2017 PNCC Qualifying tilt. Others in this photo (L-R) are Bheng, Angie, Dennis, Angelo, Neph and Leif.

                                               (Photo by Roberto Hernandez)

      ANGELO -- FIRST QUALIFIER;

           LEIF -- 4th ROUND BYE

The 3rd round of 2017 PNCC Qualifying had only one undefeated player, Angelo Salvadora, thus became the first qualifier by defeating previously unbeaten Dennis R Gonzales.

 Bobot Tan is still in the hunt for a slot when he drubbed Gonzalo Escapatoria;

 Neph Macasaet also won over Angie Sisior while Manuel Mahor is still in the run when he clobbered Wilson Barrameda and the shortest game of the day was between Baby Edna Mission vs. Leif Toribiong where the latter still has 1 hr. 2 min. in his clock when he was mated. Jennifer Angeles had a bye

. 4th ROUND PAIRINGS: (First name to play the white pieces) 1. Jojo vs. Dennis 2. Angelo vs. Jennifer 3. Wilson vs. Bobot 4. Angie vs. Bheng 5. Jun vs. Neph and Leif will have a BYE.

September 17, 2017 is the 12^th Anniversary and Thanksgiving of Pentecostal Missionary Church of Christ (4^th Watch) Palau Locale and I invited my roommate Benny Billiones to attend the service from 9:00am-12:30pm. He was baptized and we had lunch there.

Before dropping him off to Palau Royal Resort, we dropped by at Bethlehem Park to set the chess sets and clocks for the 3^rd round of 2017 Qualifying Tournament that features Angelo vs. Dennis; Bobot vs. Jojo; Neph vs. Angie; Jun vs. Wilson and Bheng vs. Leif.

After dropping Benny at PRR, I proceed to Tia Belau for my article on Sept. 18 and back again at Bethlehem Park. Minutes later, a car parked near us and there goes an American lady and her son.

 I've talked to an American lady, Jennifer Nehez, 2 weeks ago about her son who would like to join the junior division of 2017 PNCC. They didn't make it last week but they came at about 3pm on September 15 at Bethlehem Park (now known as Ernguul Park).

 I started teaching/playing Nicholas, 9 years old, with Jennifer watching. She said they are just 2 weeks here in Palau. When their 88 keys keyboard arrived from USA, I will teach Nicholas 1 hr. piano and 1 hr. chess in Airai. Jennifer also asked me if I teach Spanish language because she doesn’t like Nicholas to forget to speak Spanish. Although Philippines has been colonized by Spaniards for 100 years, only about 1% of Filipinos who speak Spanish, that’s being taught when I was in high school (1968-1972).

 I have to charge her extra for gas as I usually do to my students living outside Koror. Before leaving to go to another appointment, Jennifer, who works at US Embassy in Palau as Mission Deputy, and Nicholas gave me a rubber chess bracelet with CHECKMATE written at the center. THANK YOU, NICHOLAS! YOU'RE VERY THOUGHTFUL.

After the last game between Angelo and Dennis is finished, I proceed to teach Kyle Soriano guitar from 5:30-6:30pm. Before going back to PRR for dinner, I go to Adrian Abellera’s house to get the payment for his 10 raffle tickets to be drawn tonight at PMCC. Adrian is not home so I talked to Anna, his wife and GM of WCTC. She doesn’t have cash so she asked her son Jake to lend her $10.00.

After dinner at PRR, I proceed to PMCC for the Evangelistic Night by Pastor Gallagher Concepcion, our Guest Speaker from Hawaii, and raffle drawing. I filled up 10 extra tickets for Adrian because we don’t have time to look for those which I have given to him 3 weeks ago. I put his name—Adrian Abellera; Address –Koror; Tel. No. 488-8453.

When Emcee Sis. Jhoie Salvador announces the first prize winning number, she said, “The winner of $200.00 first prize is from Koror and his tel. no. is 488-8453 and he is Adrian…” I shouted to Sis. Jhoie that the family name is “Abellera”. I remember the tel. no. because I wrote it 10 times. I filled up 1 ticket for Nicholas Nehez for giving me a rubber chess bracelet which I always wear now.

When I informed Adrian about him winning the first prize, I told him that I have his ticket no. 1689 and I will go with him to redeem the cash prize whenever he is available. He said never mind and donated the $200.00 cash to the PMCC church!

               

My guitar/piano student Sam Tsao also won a towel as one of the 15 consolation prizes. I taught Jake piano for the first time on Sat. Sept. 23 and his younger brother Cole chess for the first time last Sat. Sept. 16 and 2^nd time on Sept. 23 with Sam as his training partner. Cole might participate in the 2017 PNCC Junior Division.

Solution to last week’s puzzle No. 3839: 1. Qxh7+!! Kxh7 2. Rh3+ Kg7 3. Be7#

This week’s puzzle No. 3840: White to play and mates in 3 (Solution next issue)

Sources: Chess Mate by Roberto Hernandez

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               Issue 76

               September 25, 2017

              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 -- September 25, 2017

             The History of Chess in Palau
             By Roberto Hernandez
             June 09, 2002 -- September 25, 2017