(1572) PHOTOS -- FINAL ROUND OF 1st Surangel Chess Team Tournament (Sept. 16, 2018)

PHOTOS -- 

Final Round of 1st S. C. T. T.

(Sept. 16, 2018)

The first ever team tournament in Palau concluded on Sept. 16, 2018 with a very exciting final round. Dark Grey is leading Light Blue by a mere half point (20-19.5 total team points). My Yellow Team is only 2.5 points ahead of Dennis Gonzales' Navy Blue Team (16.5-14). 

TEAM DARK GREY OF Angel Salvadora is the Champion of 1st Surangel Chess Team Tournament; Roberto Hernandez' Yellow Team is 2nd; Rustum Cabuso's Light Blue Team is 3rd

 Our total points is 20.5 and when Light Blue Team scored only half point (a draw between John Malinao and Manuel Mahor), we edged the Light blue team by half point! Jeff Balbalosaplayed his first game of the event vs. me and after he blundered away his queen for a bishop, I prevailed in 35 moves of French Defense (Tarrasch Variation). My teammate Glen Navarroza, middle, shaking hands with Jello, also prevailed over Jello Augaras and my youth (Board 4) gold medalist Nicholas Nehez won by default over Lenge Gibbons and the Board 3 (woman) has already been played 3 weeks earlier with Angelil Sisior prevailing over Jhoan Gemota, who is on vacation since Sept. 14, together with the other 3 members of Palau Chess Team to 2018 World Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia Bobot Tan, Bheng Codinera Mendoza and Rustum. Another 5 members left too on Sept. 18: Angelica Morales Magno, Salvadora, me, Angie Sisior and her daughter Angelil. The rest, 5 of them will fly to Manila on Fri. Sept. 21: Eric Ksau Whipps, Joy Balute Flores, Leif Toribiong, Cyril Tomas Almitante-Montel and Tito Cabunagan and we will all fly to Istanbul on Sat. Sept. 22 and will arrive in Batumi at 7pm just in time for the Opening Ceremony at 9 pm.

[Event "2018 1st Surangel Team Tourney"]

[Site "Mason's Hardware Do-it-Center Premises"]
[Date "2018.09.16"]
[Round "8.1"]
[White "Hernandez, Roberto"]
[Black "Balbalosa, Jeffrey"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C06"]
[WhiteElo "1708"]
[BlackElo "1694"]
[Annotator "Roberto"]
[PlyCount "69"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. Ngf3 c5 6. c3 Nc6 7. Bd3 Qb6 8. Nf1
(8. O-O cxd4 9. cxd4 a5 10. Re1) 8... cxd4 9. cxd4 Nxd4 10. Nxd4 Qxd4 11. f4
Bb4+ 12. Ke2 O-O 13. Qc2 f5 14. Be3 Qxe3+ 15. Nxe3 b6 16. g4 fxg4 17. Bxh7+ Kh8
18. Qg6 Ba6+ 19. Kd1 Rxf4 20. Qh5 Rc8 21. Bg6+ Kg8 22. Qh7+ Kf8 23. Qh8+ Ke7
24. Qxg7+ Kd8 25. Qg8+ Nf8 26. Nc2 Be7 27. Bf7 Kd7 28. Rc1 Bb5 29. Re1 Bh4 30.
Rg1 Rf2 31. Qxg4 Rxh2 32. Nd4 Rxc1+ 33. Kxc1 Bd3 34. Bxe6+ Kc7 35. Qg7+ 1-0

Sources: Chess Mate by Roberto Hernandez
               Tia Belau Newspaper
               December 29, 2002 -- September 19, 2018

               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 19, 2018

              The History of Chess in Palau
              By Roberto Hernandez
              June 09, 2002 -- September 19, 2018

(1567) PHOTOS -- 6th ROUND OF 1st Surangel Chess Team Tournament (Sept. 02, 2018)

PHOTOS --

6th ROUND OF 1st

Surangel Chess Team Tournament

(Sept. 02, 2018)

      
     It is very rare for top seed Cyril Tomas Montel, Jr., right, to open 1. e4 with the white pieces in his games against me. He did it for the first time in the 6th round of SCTT. I replied with 1. ...c5, Sicilian Defense and won a knight in the middle game. I should have captured the 2nd knight after that to simplify the game. Cyril still carry on while I have a lot of distractions esp. from Baby Edna Mission. When I am looking at the laptop to see what color is Bobot Tan and Leif Toribiong in the 8th round game, she is still talking to me about a lot of things. I said to her, "I have a game going on, I am working on the color of this 8th round match. My youth teammate and music/chess student is also distracting me with..."It's already 30 minutes and Aome Angeles is not around. I will claim a win. Can I borrow your cell phone to call my mom to pick me up?" When I lend him my CP, I have to tell him the code/key to operate it.

With lots of things going on my mind, I made a blunder with a drawn position of perpetual check on Cyril's king and move my queen instead to f2 and I was mated.

Lenge Gibbons, middle, claimed his 3rd win is as many games by default when his opponent didn't come while Jello Augaras, right, started the clock of Elizalde Madrinan, who didn't show up as his schedule is finished at 3:30 pm.

Paquito Suringa, Jr., top right, was late again in his 6th round match against Dennis Gonzales' Navy Blue team. He didn't write his moves and his opponent, Joel Gemota, complain about it that it's unfair that Pax is not writing his moves like in the previous 2 rounds. I just informed both players that because Pax is not writing his moves, he cannot claim a draw even if the position is even at the later part of their game.

Red Team Captain Bobot Tan, right, played his 8th round match with Purple Team Captain Leif Toribion in the late afternoon's 6th round of 1st Surangel Chess Team Tournament in Sept. 02, 2018 at the venue (Mason's Do-it-Center premises.

Sources: Chess Mate by Roberto Hernandez
               Tia Belau Newspaper
               December 29, 2002 -- September 05, 2018

               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 05, 2018

              The History of Chess in Palau 
              By Roberto Hernandez
              June 09, 2002 -- September 05, 2018