Source: Chess Mate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 13 & 15
Volume 19
Issue 27
July 05-11, 2010
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(1183) FIDE Ratings of Palau Players Published (TBN-July 05-11, 2010)
Source: Chess Mate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 13 & 15
Volume 19
Issue 27
July 05-11, 2010
Sunday, April 19, 2015
(927) 2009-2010 PNCC (Expenses, Reg. Fee, Cash Prizes and Gift Certificates)
The Top 5 finishers of 2009-2010 Palau National Chess Championship (from left, Menandro 'Boy' Manuel, Tito Cabunagan, Cyril Montel, Jr., Roberto Hernandez and Paquito 'Pax' Suringa, Jr., who is the proxy for Bernardo Garcia. (Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
2009-2010 PALAU
NATIONAL CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP
(Expenses, Registration Fees, Cash Prizes
and Gift Certificates)
REGISTRATION FEES
Receipt No. Player
Names Date
of Payment Amount
PCF 001 Tito
Cabunagan Sept. 2009 $10.00
PCF 002 Mario
Ramos Oct.
2009 10.00
PCF 003 Romeo
Caballes Oct.
2009 10.00
PCF 004 Manuel
‘Jun’ Mahor, Jr. Oct. 2009 10.00
PCF 005 Valentino
Vidar Oct. 2009 10.00
PCF 006 Elpidio
Manaligod Oct.
2009 10.00
PCF 007 Bernard
Garcia Oct.
2009 10.00
PCF 008 Masum
Billah Oct.
2009 10.00
PCF 009 Jose
Misael de Jesus Oct.
2009 10.00
PCF 010 Kristen
Senajon Nov.
2009 10.00
PCF 011 Craig
Dittrich Nov.
2009 10.00
PCF 012 Mohammad
Manik Hossain Nov. 2009
10.00
PCF 013 Andres
Mestizo II Nov. 2009 10.00
PCF 014 Akram
Hossain Dec. 2009 10.00
PCF 015 Jaime
Guevarra Nov. 2009 10.00
PCF 016 Paquito
Suringa, Jr. Nov.
2009 10.00
PCF 017 Joel
Flor Jan.
23, 2010 10.00
PCF019 Cyril
Montel, Jr. Feb.
21, 2010 10.00
PCF020 Menandro
Manuel Feb.
21, 2010 10.00
PCF023 Roberto
Hernandez Feb.
21, 2010 10.00
Gene
Pastrana
Michael
Mercado* His 5th
place Gift Certificate prize was sold for $10.00 and served as his registration
fee.
Flavin
Andres
Elizalde
Madrinan
Geaury
Ken Pastrana
PCF065 Gonzalo
Escapatoria
Oct. 31, 2012 10.00
PCF021 Cyril
Montel, Jr. Feb.
21, 2010 20.00
(Donated
to PCF from his cash prize)
PCF022 Bernard
Garcia Feb.
21, 2010 10.00
(Donated
his cash prize to PCF)
PCF 018 Bobby
Pineda, Jun dela Cruz,
Ogie
Pineda of PALIBHASA Sept.
19, 2009 60.00
(Sponsors
of cash prize)
________
Total $300.00
C-AG-0912465 PPR
GM Sho Suzuki Jan.
23, 2010 Gift Certificate
(Brunch
for 2)
C-AG-0912466 PPR
GM Sho Suzuki Jan.
23, 2010 Gift Certificate
(Brunch
for 2)
EXPENSES
Registrar of Roberto
Hernandez Sept. 21, 2009 $11.00
Corporation (for
Xerox copies of Palau Chess Federation
Receipt Files at Attorney General’s office as
Non-Profit Organization)
P
RI Z E S
Champion –Cyril Tomas Montel, Jr. 30.00
1st
Runner-up – Menandro Manuel 20.00
2nd
Runner-up –Bernard Garcia 10.00
3rd
Runner-up –Roberto Hernandez Gift Certificate
4th
Runner-up—Michael Mercado Gift Certificate
***The 2nd Runner-up prize is Gift
Certificate (Brunch for 2 at PPR) and 3rd
Runner-up is trophy and $10.00. Garcia, who works at PPR, prefers trophy and
exchange his prize with Hernandez and donated the $10.00 to Palau Chess
Federation fund.
1-8120 Gas 2/16/08 $10.00
1-6986 Gas 2/23/08 10.00
000008-44 Internet/Print 12/22/08-5/12/09 40.50
1-5048 Gas 7/22/10 9.95
1-7843 Gas /10/10
10.00
Ruler,
pen, notebook 2.28
0353 Print 10/22/10 4.30
1-8954 Gas
8/21/10 10.00
5742 Print 8/20/10 3.00
117 Reg.
Fee (R. H.)2005 Rapid 1/29/06 10.00
000022 Med. 11/20/10 5.00
_______
Total
Expenses $175.03
Reg. fees, donations-- $300.00
Minus Expenses - 175.03
_______
PALAU CHESS FEDERATION FUND
-- $
124.97
PALAU CHESS TEAM FUND -- 299.35
_______
GRAND TOTAL $
424.32
20374 Laptop
for PCF 05/17/10 $500.00
24455 Mouse 06/03/10 18.95
BALANCE (-)
$ 94.63
Source: The History of Chess in Palau
By Roberto Hernandez
February 06, 2008-October 31, 2012
To be published as a book in the future
Jaime Guevarra, left, plays against Mohammad Manik Hossain using kids chair because the table is too low.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
Left
to right -- Romeo Caballes, Mohammad Manik Hossain, Gene Pastrana, Val
Vidar, Geaury Ken Pastrana, Bernard Garcia, Manuel Mahor, Jr., a
bystander, hesitant contestant and Jose Misael de Jesus.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
Roberto
Hernandez, left, vs. Elpidio Manaligod, right, with Cyril Montel, Jr.
and a hesitant contestant practicing blitz chess with one soda bet per
game. Craig Dittrich and venue host Gene Pastrana are watching.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
Joel Flor, left, and Craig Dittrich, right, in deep thought against separate opponents.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
Manuel 'Jun' Mahor, Jr. and Mario Ramos pose for an ID picture for Palau Chess Federation record.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
Palauan bet Flavin Andres ponders his next move against Mario Ramos.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
With
shortness of chairs to sit on, players like Elpidio Manaligod, left,
and Val Vidar, right, prefer to stand while playing a'la Bong Alipoon,
who holds a record of 75 wins, 47 losses and 14 draws while playing
standing. (Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
 | |
| Romeo Caballes, right, poses for a photo against Andres Mestizo II after they have made a few moves. |
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
Last
round of 2009-2010 PNCC was held at Palau Royal Resort Dormitory 1 with
Michael Mercado, 2nd from left (sitting) playing against PRR's Paquito
Suringa, Jr., sitting at right, and Roberto Hernandez, 2nd from right.
All others in the photo are employees of PRR (L-R back row: Ferdie
Altea, Rey Alenain, Erick Ventinilla, Joel Gabris and Elizalde Madrinan.
Sitting at Mercado's left is Ronel Gutierrez and on his right is Randy
"Buhawi" Sioson. (Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
Eventual champion Cyril Montel, Jr. -- first title and undefeated.
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
2nd
place finish by Menandro Manuel. He was dislodged by Cyril as Palau No.
1 chess player in which he ruled for 5 consecutive years
(2005-2009). (Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
Class B champion Tito Cabunagan. Also undefeated. (Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
WINNERS
ALL. Left to right -- Menandro Manuel, 2nd place; Tito Cabunagan,
Champion Class B; Cyril Montel, Jr., champion; Roberto Hernandez, 3rd
runner-up. (Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
Sunday, October 28, 2012
(334) DAY OF UPSETS (Alenain Seizes Lead)
Romeo Caballes, right, defeated Andres 'Aying' Mestizo II, left, in this final game of qualification round to clinch a spot in the finals of 2009 Palau National Chess Championship. (Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
DAY OF UPSETS
ALENAIN SEIZES LEAD IN PAX CUP CLASS B
ELPIDIO MANALIGOD was not bothered by an earlier loss to Bernard Garcia in 43 moves of King's Pawn Opening and played with top seed Menandro 'Boy' Manuel (FIDE Rating 1942) in late afternoon of All Saints Day Nov. 01 at D. J. Cruz General Merchandise premises in the resumption of 2009 Palau National Chess Championship.
It's a double-edged game until Elpi managed to post a pawn at h6 on the 37th move. Positional struggle ensued till Manuel touched a wrong rook that forced him to exchange his queen for a pair of rooks.
A clever 4-move queen maneuver by Elpi cost Manuel a pawn and a bishop and his first loss in 53 moves of Sicilian Defence.
Manuel offered a draw on the 46th move that Elpi declined by just smiling and resuming play.
Prior to that upset, another strong player is struggling with time and passive position. With 31 seconds remaining on his clock, Craig Dittrich was mated by Bangladeshi bet Masum Billah on the 35th move of their Queen's Gambit Accepted encounter.
Dittrich is 5 moves short of gaining another 30 minutes on his 41st move while Billah had less than an hour left on his clock.
In the 2nd week of the NCC, Billah upsets Roberto Hernandez for his first win against 5 losses. After his 2nd victory, he suffered his 6th loss 2 hours later to Manuel in 33 moves of another Sicilian Defence.
At 10:30 am, a Class B match was set again for Jaime Guevarra vs. Mario Ramos this time, who arrived at 1:30 pm.
Jaime played with Jose Misael de Jesus instead and suffered back-to-back Sunday losses using the Pirc Defence again in 41 moves.
Of his first 4 moves, 3 are pawn moves. He needs to learn more about Pirc Defence or Yugoslav Defence, which was the pet defence used by Asia's first Grandmaster (GM) Eugene Torre in achieving his final GM norm in the 1974 World Chess Olympiad in Nice, France.
A blitz chess contest was planned at 7 pm but was cancelled when Hernandez had to go back at Palau Royal Resort to play with 2 invited players at the resumption of Paquito Suringa Invitational Rapid Chess tournament at PRR Dorm 1.
He subdued Andres 'Aying' Mestizo II in their first game with the black pieces. He played both Guevarra and Mestizo II at the same time with the white pieces and prevailed in both games.
Another invited player, Arnel Ogalesco, played his second game with Hernandez and the latter handily won. Hernandez played both Suringa and Nino Flores on the afternoon of Nov. 04 and prevailed again in both games but lost the 2nd game to Nino and won his second game with Suringa to totes a 9-1-0 win-loss-draw slate.
Akram Hossain arrived before 7:00 pm and played his 4th game against de Jesus and lost in 39 moves of King's Pawn Opening.
De Jesus or Jimboy is on a roll as he clobbered the player that ousted him to the finals-- Mohammad Manik Hossain in 48 moves of French Defence for his 3rd straight game after a protested first game loss.
Rey Alenain seized the upper hand in Class B of Pax Cup by trouncing top seed Elizalde Madrinan in their second game to overtake erstwhile leader Miguel Gancayco.
Class C (Women's Division) is yet to start when the invited player Kristen Senajon didn't make it on Saturday evening.
CURRENT STANDINGS: Class A --
1. Roberto Hernandez (9-1-0) 2. Andres Mestizo II (5-7-2) 3. Paquito Suringa, Jr. (5-6-1) 4. Arnel Ogalesco (4-3-1) 5. Jaime Guevarra (3-4-3) 6. Nino Flores (3-3-0) 7. Jomar Alerta (1-2-1) 8. Robert Tubice (0-4-0) 9. Joel Flor (0-0-0)
Class B --
1. Rey Alenain (7-3-0) 2. Miguel Gancayco (6-2-1) 3. Elizalde Madrinan (4-2-2) 4. Randy Sioson (5-4-0) 5. Jerome Ratunil (4-4-0) 6. Ferdie Altea (3-3-0) 7. Joel Gabris (4-6-0) 8. George Gabris (2-8-0) 9. Ronel Gutierrez (0-2-0).
Some of the 2009 Palau NCC games can be viewed at website: http://chessconnoisseur.blogspot.com
The Mahor-Mercado, Montel-Suringa, Hernandez-Billah and Mahor-Garcia are featured with an in-depth analysis of Papua New Guinea's top chess player Joselito Marcos.
Source: Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 13 & 15
Volume 18
Issue 45
November 09-15, 2009
Friday, August 3, 2012
(252) TOP SEEDS PREVAIL, MERCADO ESCAPES WITH A DRAW
ALL BUT ONE
Group picture of all participants (except one observer) in the qualifying round of 2009 Palau National Chess Championship. From left, Romeo Caballes, Mohammad Manik Hossain, Mario Ramos (partly hidden), Gene Pastrana, Val Vidar, Ken Pastrana, Bernard Garcia, observer, Jun Mahor, Panfilo Pepito, Jr. and Jimboy de Jesus.
I N S E T :
JOEL FLOR -- Will be invited to Pax Cup (Class A)
Elizalde Madrinan -- Still rusty
ANDRES 'AYING' MESTIZO II -- Class B Favorite
(Photo by Roberto Hernandez)
TOP SEEDS PREVAIL;
MERCADO ESCAPES WITH A DRAW
THE FIRST game of 2009 Palau National Chess Championship finals was between Jun Mahor and Michael Mercado, the only unbeaten player in the qualifying round.
On his 30th move, Mahor spent 12 minutes but still missed a forced mate in 5 moves with a neat rook sacrifice.
Instead, he gobbled a pawn on d6 that allowed Mercado to counter with a rook sacrifice of his own to escape with a draw after 34 moves of Bishop Opening and stayed undefeated.
The 4 top seeds of Palau NCC were present in the opening day of the finals but only 2 of them played.
Top seed Menandro 'Boy' Manuel (FIDE rating 1942) outlasted Romeo Caballes in 56 moves of Sicilian Defence.
Manuel hang on to his one-pawn advantage and skillfully outmaneuvered Caballes in a bishop-of-the-same-color endgame.
Fourth seed Roberto Hernandez clobbered Elpidio Manaligod in 58 moves of Pirc Defence in the 3rd game on Sunday, October 04 at D. J. Cruz General Merchandise premises.
Hernandez used his skills and cautious play to avoid a repeat of his first encounter with Elpi last year at the 2008 Palau National Chess Championship where he luckily salvaged a draw.
Their last 7 moves were not written with Hernandez barely making it on time to work as musician of Palau Royal Resort starting at 6:00 pm.
Second seed Cyril Montel, Jr. and 3rd seed Gene Pastrana didn't play with Cyril practicing chess with Class B player Panfilo Pepito, Jr., who refused to play against Mario Ramos.
He said that because of schedule conflict, he's withdrawing from the tournament. Hernandez explained to him that Palau has the most flexible chess schedule in the world to accomodate ALL players regardless of their schedules.
He lost by default to Ramos but won 2 betting games against Cyril (2 soda). It's possible that Pepito will be replaced by Gene's youngest son, Ken, who volunteered to take the place of Val Vidar for 3 weeks.
Vidar's house in the Philippines was burned during typhoon Ketsana, (locally named 'Ondoy' in Philippines).
Another finalist showed up on Sunday but didn't play a game likewise. Craig Dittrich just practiced blitz chess with Pastrana and sized up the other finalists.
The lone female participant Kristen Senajon didn't make it despite the assurance from her mother that she will play at least one game.
Palau Royal Resort's pastry chef Jaime Guevarra went to the tournament site on Saturday afternoon for a possible showdown with anybody at Class B.
The only available player was Jose Misael de Jesus but they just practiced speed chess.
Guevarra don't have a Sunday off the whole year. Class B players are requested to play with him at PRR or at the tournament site on different days.
Source: Chessmate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
Pages 13 & 15
Volume 18
Issue 41
October 12-18, 2009
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