(1086) MUSIC AND ME (Sept. 24, 2015) THE MOST EFFECTIVE METHOD -- JAPANESE/CHINESE BIRTH CONTROL

   THE MOST EFFECTIVE METHOD --
    Japanese/Chinese Birth Control


Calling the attention of all Japanese or Chinese who found out the most effective method of birth control in the mid-70's.

After the end of World War II, the "Baby Boom" became the trend. Sixty years later, China's population topped the world.

Japan's population was somehow slowed by their citizens getting married at their late 30's or early 40's. And they don't want to have more than 3 children.

China and Japan found out the most effective method of birth control through the characters shown above.

THE ANSWER WILL BE REVEALED ON THE NEXT ISSUE OF MUSIC AND ME (Oct. 01, 2015 -- Palau's 21 years of Independence).


MY JAPANESE FRIENDS WHO ARE ELIGIBLE TO SOLVE THIS METHOD:

1. Michiko Nakamura 2. Satoku Uehara 3. Kuma Katsutoshi 4. Yoshiharu Kurata 5. Takao Anzawa 6. Akemi Tsuji 7. Allen Kangichi 8. Aya Asanuma 9. Bumpei Iwata 10. Gene Nakauchi 11. Gladys Husiro 12. Grace Baconga Otsuka 13. Hiromi Mochizuki 14. Isao Takahashi 15. Oribia Kikinagara 16. Jane Kiki 17. Titi Cabunagan 18. Kikimo Mikuto 19. Guapo Kamukako 20. Pangit Kamukamo 21. Sushi Motto 22. John Masaichi 23. Yuriko Cho Irikidemoto 24. Manabu Hotta 25. Masao Kikuchi 26. Yutaka Taiku 27. Baho Taimo 28. Morton Sawaichi 29. Quincy Kuniyoshi 30. Rholfie "Roy" Eis 31. Santy Asanuma 32. Shinji Chibana 33. Shinji Otsuka 34. Shohei Nakatsugawa 35. Taro Watanabe 36. Motoko Watanabe 37. Michiko Suzuki 38. Rintaro Mita 39. Nao Yasuda 40. Koichi Matsuda 41. Koji Tomita 42. Yoko Tomita 43.


MY CHINESE/TAIWANESE FRIENDS LIKEWISE:

1. Ai Lin Liao 2. Michelle Liao 3. Vincent Chen 4. Ethan Zhao 5. Brad Hsu 6. Carol Hsu 7. Yoyo Hsue 8. Ivan Lau 9. Kung Yi Cheng 10. Lily Dai 11. Tom Tu 12. Steven Chen 13. Joseph Ma 14. Noel Tsao




CONTINUATION OF "MY REPERTOIRE
  OF INTERNATIONAL SONGS"

                  -- 0 --   

            O BABE (Singsing) (Filipino Song)

1968    OBLADI OBLADA (Beatles)                                                                       R   219

            OCEAN DEEP (Cliff Richard)                                                                      DB233

            ODESANGEL (Halley Erich) (Palauan Song)                                                G P 18

            ODE TO JOY (Beethoven)

1974    OF ALL THE THINGS (Dennis Lambert)                                                     DB222

1959    OH CAROL (Neil Sedaka)                                                                            B     69

            OH DARLING (Beatles)                                                                                R   199

            OH GIRL!                                                                                                      G   120

            OH MY LOVE (John Lennon)                                                                       B     88

1982    OLD PHOTOGRAPHS (Jim Capaldi)                                                           B   311

            OMRUUD A RENG (Palauan Song)                                                              G P 20

            ON AND ON (Stephen Bishop)                                                                    R   179

            ON A SLOW BOAT TO CHINA

            ONCE I GET OVER YOU (Ronnie Milsap)

1937    ONCE IN A WHILE                                                                                    R     35

            ONCE THERE WAS A LOVE (Jose Feliciano)                                            R     14

1974    ONE DAY IN YOUR LIFE (Michael Jackson)                                             DB107

            ONE FRIEND

            ONE IN A MILLION (Larry Graham)                                                          R       8

            ONE LOVE (Carpenters)                                                                              DB100

1988    ONE MOMENT IN TIME (Whitney Houston)                                             R       9

            ONE MORE NIGHT (Phil Collins)                                                               B   232

            ONE MORE TRY (Timmy T.)                                                                       G     40

1961    ONE NOTE SAMBA                                                                                   R     47

            ONE WAY TICKET                                                                                     DB  25

1975    ONLY YESTERDAY (Carpenters)                                                               R     49

1955    ONLY YOU (Platters)                                                                                  B   130

1956    ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE                                                      R     37

1930    ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET                                                 G     37

1982    ON THE WINGS OF LOVE (Jeffrey Osborne)                                           B   312

1982    OPEN ARMS (Journey)                                                                               B   270

            ORIBIA O KIKINAGARA (Japanese Song)                                               J      34

            OSAKA HANG (Palauan Song)                                                                    G P 13

            OTSO-OTSO (Bayani Agabayani) (Filipino Song)                                     OPM208

1963    OUR DAY WILL COME                                                                             G   127

            OUT HERE ON MY OWN (Irene Cara)                                                      R     48

            OUT OF THE BLUE (Michael Learns To Rock)                                           DB  66

            OVERJOYED (Stevie Wonder)                                                                    B   186

1938    OVER THE RAINBOW (Judy Garland)                                                       R   123

Sources: Chess and Music (Perfect Combination)
            The Beginning of Chess in Palau
            By Roberto Hernandez
            To be published as a book in the future

            Music and Me
            By Roberto Hernandez
            Tia Belau Newspaper
            March 15, 2012 -- April 2013
            http://palau-chess.blogspot.com
            April 2013 -- September 2015 
         

(1069) OMEGA -- 7th CHESS CHAMPION (TBN-Sept. 30-Oct. 07, 2005)

Solution to last week's puzzle:

1.  ... g2+! 2. Ke2 Qf2+ 3. Kh3 d5 mate.

Second solution 1. ... g2+! 2. Kxg2 Qf2+! 3. Kh3 d5 mate.

Not 3. ...d6 as 4.  Be6 results in mate in 4, not 3.

Source:

Chess Mate by Roberto Hernandez

Tia Belau Newspaper

 Pages 9-10

Volume 14

Issue 39

September 30-October 07,2005 

(969) TOP 3 WINNERS OF 2015 UNRATED CHESS TOURNAMENT (Arnolfo Inres, Allan Alcid, Joan Gemota)

A VERY SUCCESSFUL 2015 UNRATED RAPID CHESS TILT
     Winners of the tilt are -- Arnolfo Inres, middle, champion; Allan Alcid, 2nd from left, 2nd place and Joan Gemota, 2nd from right, --3rd place. They received a trophy each and $20.00, $15.00 and $10.00 cash prizes respectively. Jeff Balbalosa, left, and Roberto Hernandez presented the trophies and cash prizes to the happy winners.
                                               (Photo by Roberto Hernandez) 

     TOP 3 WINNERS OF 2015 UNRATED
               CHESS TOURNAMENT
            (Arnolfo Inres, Allan Alcid and Joan Gemoto) 

IT WAS another successful chess event held by Palau Chess Federation -- the 2015 Unrated Rapid Chess Tournament held at Bethlehem Park on Sunday, July 12, 2015.

There were only 7 unrated players who registered, with the last one at 5pm and there is no time to play a 4-round games so the organizers decided to hold it -- in one day, the next Sunday.

The first 7 participants are 1. Koichi Matsuda, left, (Born on Feb. 10, 1944 -- tel. no. 778-9433) 2. Arnolfo Inres, middle, (Sept. 13, 1966 --Tel. 778-3287) 3. Joan Gemota (June 24, 1985 --Tel. 779-6454) 4. Pons Mahor (May 30, 1959) 5. Allan Alcid (April 13, 1964--Tel. 779-5618) 6. Johnny Carandang, right,  (Jan. 04, 1978--Tel. 778-2411) 7. Edward Artillaga, 2nd from left, (Oct. 01, 1988 Tel. 778-1143).
     The last 3 entrants are 8. Ariel Mina (Feb. 15, 1968 -- Tel. 779-8189) 9. Allan Bacuno (Nov. 18, 1979 - Tel. 488-5472) 10. Josef Karlo Moyet (Sept. 04, 1988 -- Tel. 488-4463).

When the list of participants reached 10 entrees, the 1st round was set, Joan Gemota was fitted against Ariel Mina, who is watching the finals of a basketball game nearby.

The defaulting is just one minute and Joan earned her first win via default.

In her game against Pons Mahor, Roberto noticed that Pons moved a pawn after Joan captured a bishop with a pawn that exposed her king for an illegal move. Since Pons didn't notify the arbiter about the illegal move and making a pawn move, Roberto explained to Joan that she has to move the king for it is under check.

After moving her king, Pons captured a pawn with a pawn and 2 moves later, he made an illegal move (putting his queen to a dark diagonal where it is originally from a white diagonal. He said, "I think it's not the right place for a queen to be." Roberto traced where the queen came from and declared an illegal move. So Joan won another tough one via illegal move.

In her 7th and last round game against Allan Bacuno, she is way behind materials as she has only a bishop and a king. But Allan is under extreme time pressure with 3 seconds left in his clock and when Allan's time expires, she reveled in excitement as she thought she won that game. 

Cyril Montel, Jr. noticed that it's not a win for her because she doesn't have enough materials to mate Allan's king. It doesn't matter as the half point is all she needed to win 3rd place for a trophy and $10.00 cash.

Arnolfo Inres and Allan Alcid are tied for 1st place with identical 6.5 points after 7 rounds. They drew their game so the winner over the other tiebreak (Direct Encounter) can't be applied. 

The Swiss Perfect software computed the other tiebreaks and Inres emerged as champion with a trophy and $20.00 cash in which he pays for the next tournament on Sunday, July 19, the 2015 Palau Rapid Chess Championship.

The registration for this event is $15.00 for members, $17.00 for non-members and a package deal of $20.00 for non-members for an automatic membership. Inres prefers this choice and paid his cash prize for automatic membership.

The coming event offers cash prizes of $100.00, $80.00, $60.00, $40.00 and $20.00 for the top 5 finishers in the Open division + trophies to the top 4 and medal for 5th.

Women and Juniors are having their separate double round-robin format. The Open is 9-round Swiss system and players in this division have to play 2 games a week.

Nilo de Jesus, middle, has just received his certificate of participation in the 2014-2015 Palau National Chess Championship from Roberto Hernandez, right, before the start of the 2015 Unrated Rapid Chess Tournament. Jeff Balbalosa, left, is the one who designed the logo of the event.

                                    Allan Alcid -- Champion of I. N. C. Chess Tournament.
                                                                  

Source: The History of Chess in Palau
             By Roberto Hernandez
             June 09, 2002 - July 12, 2015
             To be published as a book in the future