NEOPHYTE
chess player Jess David is currently having the best record in the
ongoing Palau Royal Resort Rapid Chess Tournament with a 4-1-0
win-loss-draw record after nipping another newcomer Armand Lelis last
week.
Mark
Apresto is still leading their division despite a setback from the
surging Francis Diesta, who scored another victory from erstwhile leader
Edgar Cayanan.
David used to watch Class A players practicing and learned his lessons from their styles, strengths and weaknesses.
Class
C top seed Randy 'Buhawi' Sioson swept Cayanan in their 3-game series.
He won the 1st game.With the 2nd game headed for a draw, they decided
to disregard the draw and play for win.
With the loss, Cayanan scored only half point in 5 games after winning his first four.
The
same thing happened to Jaime Guevarra in last year's rating chess
tourney of PRR where he scored 3 straight and didn't score a whole point
in his last 4 games.
Diesta
showed his top form as he dealt Mark his 3rd loss of the event. Other
Class C players Morris Apresto, Romy Cayanan, Arnold Rivera and invited
player Chat Miraflor didn't play a single game last week despite
Miraflor's day off on Wednesday.
With Mark Apresto leaving on March 12, he needs to play all his remaining games to avoid default losses.
He
is still in contention for the title and it will depend on the
performance of David, Diesta, the two Cayanans and his brother Morris.
Only
one game was played in the Class B division. It is the first game of
Darwin Nisperos against Paquito Pax' Suringa, Jr., who has yet to win a
game after 3 tries.
With
his cautious play, Nisperos build a bewildering attack in the king side
but blundered badly in the endgame that lead to his downfall with his
4-pawn advantage against a bishop.
Class B top seed Abrahan 'Abe' Francisco withdraw from the tournament and concentrate more against 14 opponents at Chess.com.
There
is a plan to include players of Class B to Class A as most players in
that class have the talents higher than that of Class B.
Class
A top seed Roberto Hernandez outwitted 5th seed Paul Garcia in less
than 30 moves of Pirc Defence where Garcia lost a minor piece in the
middle game.
By the time that he recovered the piece, Hernandez already weaved a mating net to force his resignation facing a mate in two.
Garcia bounced back from defeat and dealt Hernandez his 2nd loss with a masterful handling of a pair of bishop.
Even during practice, Garcia showed much improvement as he also defeated blitz chess specialist Tony Villa three weeks ago.
Source: Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 13 & 15
Volume 18
March 07-13, 2008
ON
A 7-game winning streak, Mark Apresto, with a 10-2-0 win-loss-draw
record, grab the leadership in the Class C division of Palau Royal
Resort Rapid Chess Tournament held at Dormitory 1 last week.
He
swept Delfin 'Scanamus' Mallare(1-9-0) and Armand Lelis (3-9-0)
convincingly and clobbered invited player Chat Miraflor (0-2-0) last
Wednesday.
He subdued Francis Diesta (1-2-1) on Monday night and dealt the 3rd loss of his brother Morris (5-3-0) on the same night.
With the way he is playing, he is on his way to his first chess title before going home in a few weeks.
Erstwhile
Class C leader Edgar Cayanan (4-2-1) suffered 2 setbacks from Morris
and drew with Diesta in a seesaw battle that had both players seizing
the initiative and ended in a stalemate.
Morris
nipped Miraflor, who played only 2 games on his day off (Wednesday).
Lelis swept Mallare and won by time forfeit over Morris, who learned his
lesson about using the time clock properly and bounced back to defeat
Lelis.
First
week leader and top seed Randy 'Buhawi' Sioson (7-5-0) played 2 games
in one week after playing 10 games last week and swept Lelis to fall one
step behind in standings.
Romy
Cayanan (4-2-0) scored 4 straight wins over Lelis and Mallare but lost
to Morris while Jess David, the remaining player with the least loss,
didn't play a single game to stay at 3-1-1 slate.
Arnold
Rivera, the PRR Cafeteria chief cook, confirmed his participation and
scored a victory over Lelis and lost one game to Morris in a hectic week
of Class C encounters.
The opposite happened in Class B where no games were played between the 8 participants.
In
the Class A division, Andres 'Aying' Mestizo II lost 2 games to Dennis
Lara and the 2 Roberts of Class A suffered their first loss in
contrasting fashion.
Top
seed Roberto Hernandez was ahead in his late night action against Lara
when he blundered away his queen and eventually lost.
The other Robert, Robert 'Tube Ice' Tubice was outplayed by 2nd seed Jaime Guevarra earlier in the night.
The
cash prize of the recently concluded Rapid Chess tournament of Palau's
top players were already given to the champions Manny Nedic and Tony
Villa ($25.00 and $20.00 respectively).
Third place Cyril Montel, Jr. ($15.00), 4th place Roberto Hernandez and 5th place Gene Pastrana ($10.00 each).
Pastrana proposed that the next tournament to have Group A vs. Group B
Proposed
composition of Group A are Tony Villa, Cyril Montel, Jr., Jose Omega,
Gene Pastrana, Dennis Lara, Paul Garcia and Dennis Gonzales.
The
Group B will have Menandro Manuel, Manny Nedic, Roberto Hernandez,
Craig Dittrich, Jaime Guevarra, Andres 'Aying' Mestizo II and Jimboy de
Jesus.
Players in Group A will play only players from Group B and the registration fee is $20.00 to be given to the group winners.
Source: Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 13 & 15
Volume 18
February 29-March 06, 2008
