CABRIDO MEMORIAL CUP

This kiddies invitational 1-day 5-round rapid event is scheduled on Sunday October 18, from 9:00 to 4:00 pm with an entry fee of P200. Prizes are :

Champion - P1,000 plus medal
2nd Place - 700 plus medal
3rd - 500 plus medal

Venue is Lopez Bldg Basement Canteen in MERALCO HQ in Ortigas Center, Pasig City.

Chief Arbiter is NM Andrew Vasquez.

Confirmed entries are Pau Bersamina, Darryl Samantila, Jerad & Jesca Docena, Dennis Gutierrez \Jr & III, Karen Enriquez, Renato Cruz, Nikka Cerrado and the MERALCO juniors.

GM GONZALES & RP PARALYMPICS TEAM

GM GONZALES vs JOANNAH SALTORIO

GM GONZALES vs MERALCO

GM GONZALES vs RP PARA

GM GONZALES vs BRGY WESLEY

GM GONZALES vs GONZALES

SHELL FINALS: PAU BERSAMINA

BALITA: GM GONZALEZ SIMUL

MANILA, Oct. 15 –Grandmaster(GM) Jayson Gonzales recently flashed his deadly old form for a magnificent performance in a rare simultaneous chess exhibition at the Basement Canteen, Lopez Bldg, in Meralco, Ortigas Center, Pasig City.

Gonzales, a member of the multi-titled Philippine Army chess team and head coach of Far Eastern University (FEU) played over 25 boards (7 from Paralympics, 8 from Brgy. Wesley and 10 from Meralco Chess Club) to wind up with a score of 21 wins-3 losses and one draw

According to International Master (IM) Marlon Bernardino and Meralco Chess Club president Rolly Sol Cruz, the lone winner was Brgy. Wesley's Pulsar and those who secured the draw were PARA's Rudy Sarmiento, Alexis Elinon and Meralco chess club member Joannah Saltorio of National University (NU).

Cruz added that the proceeds will go to the purchase of personal chess sets for the RP Paralympics players and for chess set donations to young chess players Darryl Samantila, Karen Enriquez, Vince Morte, and Julian Sabularse.

Meralco Chess Club has already organized three fund-raising chess simuls this year.

First with GM Rogelio “Joey” Antonio Jr., then with Asia’s First GM Eugene Torre, and most recently with GM Jayson for the benefit of blind and handicapped players and lately for the members of the local chess community affected by typhoon Ondoy.

GM Mark Paragua has agreed to do the fourth episode of the fund-raising simul in November after the Indoor Games in Vietnam.

Meanwhile, the Meralco Chess club will stage the first-ever NM Victor Cabrido Memorial kiddies invitational chess tournament on Sunday at the same venue.

Confirmed entries are Paulo Bersamina, Darryl Samantila, Jerad & Jesca Docena, Dennis Gutierrez Jr. & III, Karen Enriquez, Renato Cruz, Nikka Cerrado, Jett and JV Cadawas-Marcos.

For inquiries, please email: rjsolcruz@yahoo.com for complete details. (PNA) LOR

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PICHAY CUP: ROGELIO ANTONIO, JR 3RD

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10/07/2009 | 04:39 PM

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Top seed GM Mikhail Mchedlishvili of Georgia edged fellow GM Ehsan Ghaemmaghami of Iran in the tiebreak to capture the title even as GM Rogelio Antonio, Jr. finished a fighting third in the fifth Prospero Pichay Cup international chess championship at the LWUA Bldg. in Quezon City.

Mchedlishvili, the highest-rated player in the field with an ELO of 2613, outwitted GM Abhijeet Gupta of India in the final round to clinch the title with seven points on five wins and four draws.

Ghaemmaghami subdued GM Li Shilong of China to finish in a two-way tie for first place with Mchedlishvili with seven points.

Filipino GM Rogelio “Joey" Antonio, Jr., left, in a recent chess tournament. Jeff Venancio

But the sixth-seed player from Iran settled for runner-up honors due to a lower tiebreak score.

Mchedlishvili and Ghaemmaghami, however, went home US$4,500 richer each.

It was the second title in less than three weeks for Mchedlishvili, who also topped the Ravana GM tournament in a two-way tie with GM Vladimir Georgiev of Macedonia in Sri Lanka last month.

The smile was back on the faces of the Filipino chess fans, too.

Antonio outduelled GM Merab Gagunashvili of Georgia to clinch third place and emerge as the highest-placed Filipino player for the second straight time since a sixth-place finish in last week’s fourth President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Cup.

The multi-titled campaigner from Calapan, Oriental MIndoro, who earned a slot in the coming World Chess Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia next month, finished in a tie for third to fifth places with GMs Nguen Ngoc Truong Son of Vietnam and Zhang Zhong of Singapore with 6.5 points.

Nguyen whipped GM Anuar Ismagambetov of Kazakhstan while Zhang trounced GM Eugene Torre of the Philippines to catch up with Antonio.

Pichay Cup chess
Final standings:
(RP unless stated)

7 points – M. Mchedlishvili (Georgia), E. Ghaemmaghami (Iran)

6.5 – R. Antonio, N. T. Nguyen (Vietnam), Z. Zhang (Singapore)

6 - D. Laylo, T.H. Dao (Vietnam), N. Das (India)

5.5 - T. Kotanjian (Armenia), A. Gupta (India), M. Paragua, A. Filippov (Uzbekistan), M. Gagunashvili (Georgia), S. Li (China), E. Torre, R. Dableo, A. Ismagambetov (Kazakhstan), R. Nolte, P. Kostenko (Kazakhstan), O. Dimakiling, F. Donguines

5 - Tirto (Indonesia), R. Andador, C. Garma, E. Senador, L. Lumancas, B. Villamayor

Antonio, however, finished ahead of Nguyen and Zhang in the tiebreak.

Asian Zone 3.3 champion GM Darwin Laylo of the Philippines battled GM Tigran Kotanjian of Armenia to a draw to finish in a tie for sixth to eighth places with GM Dao Thien Hai of Vietnam and GM Neelotpal Das of India with six points.

Dao outclassed giant-killer Lyndon Lumancas and Das outplayed IM Richard Bitoon in the other crucial encounter.

Overall, Laylo wound up sixth with a higher tiebreak score.

PGMA Cup champion GM Anton Filippov of Uzbekistan drew with GM-elect Ronald Dableo of the Philippines to lead a big group of players in ninth to 21st places with 5.5 points.

The bunch included Torre, Dableo, GM Mark Paragua, IM Rolando Nolte, IM Oliver Dimakiling and FM Ferdie Donguines.

Paragua drew with GM Pyotr Kostenko of Kazakhstan, Nolte toppled GM John Paul Gomez, Dimakiling humbled David Elorta and Donguines bested FM Haridas Pascua

GM JAYSON SIMUL

As previously announced by Rustic Bull of Malibay Chess Club, the fund-raising simul by GM Jayson was rescheduled this coming October 10 (Saturday 9am) at MERALCO in Ortigas Center, Pasig City.

The proceeds will be used for purchase of personal chess sets for the blind players of the PARA Team; Francis, Rudy, Gigi, Abe, Melchor, and hopefully, we can raise more than enough funds for the chess players whose house were flooded by Ondoy.

Please register here in the comments portion. This photo was taken in the on-going Pichay Cup.

PICHAY CUP R4

As Typhoon Pepeng spared MM, I got the chance to take a peek at the on-going Pichay Cup sans my son who opted to sleep all day. We were actually planning to watch the GM play as early as the PGMA Cup but Typhoon Ondoy made it a fatal move last weekend.

As I entered the quiet playing hall, NM Gatus, who was one of the arbiter immediately welcomed me; mainly because he did a pair of mini-simuls at MERALCO (where I got a draw vs his Torre Attack by virtue of being the only one left in the 5-man/boy field and with us still equal in material) and he has coached my son Rhal once.

I surveyed the playing field and there were familiar faces;

1) IM Rolando Nolte who waved at me while waiting for NM Milagrosa to make his move. Nolts was recommended to us by GM Torre last June for the JPF Cup Simul with MERALCO jr and sr players plus the champions from Tahanan Walang Hagdanan.

2) NM Rhobel Legaspi nodded at me as he made his way to the rest room. The NM did a simul for us last Feb for the Olvida Memorial and again in March for the MERALCO Family Day.

3) NM Mirabeu Maga talked to me as he strolled around with a winning position. He played a simul for MERALCO Chess Club in January.

4) NM Efren Bagamasbad, a fellow UST alumnus, managed to smile at me even after his loss.

5) FM Chris Castellano answered me that their house in Brookside Cainta was submerged by the floods of Ondoy.

6) GM Bong Villamayor approached me as he was relaxing from a tight position vs NM Andador. Then NM Bong was the trainer of the MERALCO Chess Team and I cannot forget that I won a game from him with my pet French Defense - Arencibia Line, though on a 10-1 time control.

7) GM Joey tapped me on his way back to his board vs PGMA Champ Filipov. He started the fund-raising simul in MERALCO last Aug 1 where 6 out of 24 got a draw; including my son Rhal of LSGH GS Chess Team under NMs Carag and Bernardino.

8) GM Torre called out my name as he strolled away from the playing hall after winning, with a 2 pawn advantage, vs GM Dableo. Of course, El Eugenio did a 25 board simul in 2007 for the MERALCO Family Day and also recently, just this Sept 5, for the second fund-raising drive for the RP PARA Chess Team. BTW, I played in that one and lost my Q after I lost my "conciousness" after around 2 hours of play.

Wow! This is a great collection of friends and all because of our love for the game on the 64 squares and our less fortunate brothers and sisters.

So much for the intro!

The playing hall was extremely quiet and people whispers as they talk. I moved around to take photos, only to find out that my digicam was low on battery. I put the flash off and managed to take a few shots before the batteries finally resigned.

On Bd 1 was GM Michivili whose profile reminds me of Nicholas Cage and he was battling Darwin's Theory.

I saw IM Manny Senador playing and it brought back memories from the '80s; my game with him in a French Winnawer in Agora San Juan.

WNM Lamiel Bernales won her game vs FM Castellano. Lamiel played as a guest in our MACE Cup a few months ago which she topped despite the presence of MERALCO's top 3 players; Darryl Mata, Jay Dicen and Ricky Tan. That was the tournament where I logged a record 4 draws as I experimented with the Chinese style as pointed out by Prof. Bobby Ang - play solid and wait for your opponent to make a mistake.

I find the foreign GMs very friendly though I have not talked to any one of them. But I see them moving around and watching the other boards, even the lower boards, particularly GM Tigran. And if there are some post game analysis going on, he suggests a move or two.

These are great events and it is a pity that no live coverage from either GMA7 nor ABSCBN was there. Also, the place is not very accessible to the public and thre were just a handful of us spectators were there, and that includes Spawn2 of Barangay Wesley.

I wish I can go back again in this annual event.