En Passant Chess Tournament

‘En Passant’

Age Group & 2050 and below

Rapid Chess Tournament

Sunday, 8:30 am, July 20, 2014

@ Alphaland Southgate Mall, Makati City

TOURNAMENT GUIDELINES

Age Group  - Open to all non-titled chess players (regardless of gender and ratings,  the following as follows;

·         Under 10 – Born not earlier than 2004

·         Under 13 – Born not earlier than 2001

·         Under 16 – born not earlier than 1998

2050 & Below - Open to all non-titled, untitled, unrated and rated chess players with NCFP latest ratings as of June 2014,  regardless of age and gender, who are members in good standing with the National Chess Federation of the Philippines (NCFP).  However, titled kiddies can join on this division.

1.       The new FIDE Laws of Chess, (which took effect on July 1, 2014) particularly the new Laws on Rapid Chess, shall govern the tournament. (ground rule will be posted onsite)

2.       The tournament format shall be seven or more rounds Swiss System, depending on the number of participants.         

3.       The time control shall be twenty (20) minutes with 5 seconds time delay mode (Bronstein)

Age-Group	Under 10	Under 13	Under 16	2050 & Below
Champion	2000 + trophy	2500 +trophy	3000 + trophy	5000 + trophy
2nd place	1500 + medal	1,500 + medal	1,500 + medal	3000 + medal
3rdplace	1000 + medal	1000 + medal	1000 + medal	2000 + medal
4th place	700 +medal	700 + medal	700 + medal	1,000.00
5th place	600 + medal	600 + medal	600 + medal	700.00
6th to 8th place	200 + medal	300 + medal	300 + medal
6th to 10th  place				500.00
Top Female	500 + medal	500 + medal	500 + medal	600
Top 2000 Below				600
Top 1950 Below				600
Top College				600
Top Unrated				300

6.  Participants should bring any proof of age (e.g. birth certificate or government-issued I.D.)

7.      For inquiries, please call/text the following arbiters/organizers:

FNA  ALEX DINOY                      -  0922-8288510                 

FNA XIAN JAVIER                      - 0929-4558931

FNA  MILES SAMANIEGO        -  0932-4913833                 

FNA FERDIE REYES                   - 0998-3702528

FNA  GATZ LUZ                            -  0925 -8884859                

8.       Registration Fee: P250.00 for Age-Group and P300 for 2050 division free lunch for each participant.

9.       Maximum of 300 participants on a first-come, first- served basis only.

Officiated and  sanctioned by: NCFP and Chess Arbiters Union of the Philippines

                                                                                

GM Barbosa's Olympiad Deadline

Joey Villar's continuing coverage of the Philippine chess has given us much information about the status of the players in our country. This time, it is GM Oliver Barbosa given until Thursday of this week to decide whether  he will join the Philippine team for the Tromso Olympiad or not.


Here is Joey's article: Barbosa given until Thursday to decide joining Phl team in Chess Olympiad.

Although lately I've been reading Joey's write-ups on his blog, I still am a big follower of Bobby Ang's Chess Piece column at the Business World and I've yet to read about this.


National Chess Federation of the Philippines' officials must be having tremendous time right now due to the fact that most Pinoy GM's are following the lead of Wesley So in moving to the US of A.

Corruption of the soul and corruption of the mind leads to corruption in the society.

Good luck to Philippine Chess and to all the Filipino chess players who have represented the country before and were taken for granted by NCFP.

Sayang ang mga talent. Tsk! Tsk!

2nd Saturday Chess @ Alphaland Mall

Well here is an upcoming tournament happening on the 12th of July at the Alphaland Mall:

The Face of Webster University

Wesley So is the current face of Webster University.

Beat that!

Drawn Game in Time Trouble

Here is a game I played early this morning. Time trouble causes a chessplayer to miss out on basic, simple checkmating maneuvers. After gaining a Bishop in the almost-endgame part of the game, I had difficulty playing out moves to trap his King.

Here it is:

[Event "Live Chess"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2013.11.14"] [Round "?"]
[White "The_Brown_ManPH"] [Black "tebogo555555"] [Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1436"] [BlackElo "1355"] [PlyCount "111"] [EventDate "2013.??.??"]
[TimeControl "2"]

1. e4 c5 2. f4 Nc6 3. Nf3 d6 4. Bb5 Bd7 5. O-O g6 6. d3 Bg7 7. c3 Nf6 8. Be3 O-O 9. h3 a6 10. Ba4 b5 11. Bc2 e6 12. Nbd2 Re8 13. Nh2 Rc8 14. e5 dxe5 15. Bxc5 exf4 16. Rxf4 Ne5 17. d4 Nc4 18. Ne4 Nxe4 19. Rxe4 Bc6 20. Re1 Bd5 21. b3 Nd6 22. Ng4 Nf5 23. Be4 Bxe4 24. Rxe4 Qc7 25. Qf3 Rcd8 26. Rae1 Nh4 27. Qf2 Nf5 28. Rf1 a5 29. Ne3 b4 30. Nxf5 exf5 31. Rxe8+ Rxe8 32. cxb4 axb4 33. Bxb4 Bxd4 34. Qxd4 Rd8 35. Qf6 Rd3 36. Ba3 Qb6+ 37. Kh1 Rd2 38. Be7 Qb7 39. Rg1 Qa8 40. Bb4 Qxa2 41. Bxd2 Qxd2 42. Qe7 Kg7 43. Qe5+ Kh6 44. Qg3 Qg5 45. h4 Qd2 46. Qg5+ Kg7 47. Qxd2 h5 48. Kh2 f4 49. g3 g5 50. Kh3 Kh7 51. Qd4 g4+ 52. Kh2 Kh6 53. gxf4 g3+ 54. Kxg3 f5 55. Qf6+ Kh7 56. Kf3 1/2-1/2

Bishop and Knight Checkmate

Here is one more game to add to my collection of quick won games. After this blitz-1-minute-game, my opponent punished me with 12 consecutive defeats before I won again and he quit.

So here it is, a nine-move checkmate right from the opening:

LSMS-Chess @ Brent 2013

The League of Southern Manila Schools-Chess Tournament is happening this Saturday, October 19, 2013. The tournament was rescheduled from the original date of October 12 due to typhoon Santi. The time control is 30/g.

Format for the tournament is kinda' odd though:

2013 LSMS CHESS TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

TOURNAMENT RULES AND REGULATIONS

I.              GENERAL:

1.     The Tournament is open to all chess teams representing the Member Schools of the League of Southern Manila Schools (LSMS). This event will be conducted in four (4) separate Divisions, namely; the BOYS & GIRLS GRADE SCHOOL DIVISION and the BOYS & GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL DIVISION.

2.     Each participating team shall be composed of Five (5) players; whereby, Four (4) Regular Board Players and one (1) Alternate. The competition shall be played over Four (4) Boards.

3.     The playing members of each team must be listed in the order of their specific board assignments (Boards 1 to 4) which shall be strictly observed throughout the tournament.

4.     All players shall maintain their designated board assignments during the entire duration of the event. In no case shall a player play on a board lower higher than his original board assignment. Substitution of players shall be done via Slide-Rule.

5.     The color assignments (White or Black) based on the Pairing shall be referred to Board 1 & 3 players. The Board 2 & 4 teammates shall play the opposite color as assigned on the Pairing.

6.     The FIDE Laws of Active Chess, unless otherwise specified in these rules, shall govern the tournament.

II.            TOURNAMENT SCHEDULES AND VENUE:

This two (2)-day competition will be held at the Atrium Area of Brent International School-Manila, Brentville Subdivision, Brgy. Mamplasan, Biñan, Laguna, and will have the following schedules;

D A T E	T I M E	A C T I V I T Y
October  19, 2012 ( Saturday )	8:00 AM – 9:00 AM   9:00 AM – 10:00 AM  10:10 AM – 11:10 AM 11:20 AM – 12:20 PM 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM 2:10 PM – 3:10 PM	Submission of Team Line-up and Coaches’ Meeting R O U N D  1 (Elimination Phase) R O U N D  2 (Elimination Phase) R O U N D  3 (Elimination Phase) R O U N D  4 (Elimination Phase) R O U N D  5 (Elimination Phase)
October 26, 2012 ( Saturday )	8:30 AM – 9:30 AM    9:40 AM – 10:40 AM 10:50 AM – 11:50 AM 12:30 PM	R O U N D  1 (Championship Phase) R O U N D  2 (Championship Phase) R O U N D  3 (Championship Phase) Awarding Ceremony

                

NOTE:      The Starting Time for each Game may vary or be adjusted as the need arises.

III.           TOURNAMENT SYSTEM & FORMAT:

1.     Each Division will be conducted in a FIVE (5) ROUND SWISS SYSTEM ELIMINATION PHASE. The Seed Number of each Team will be determined thru the Drawing-of-Lots which will be conducted during the Coaches’ Meeting. After the Elimination Phase, the TOP FOUR (4) TEAMS in each Division shall then advance to the CHAMPIONSHIP PHASE. In the Championship Phase, the four (4) chess teams shall compete in a SINGLE ROUND-ROBIN FORMAT. Their seeding of these four teams will be based on their Final Ranking in the Elimination Phase. The team with the highest total Game Points after the Single Round-Robin will be declared the Champion Team.

2.     The Scoring System shall be Game Points. The Defaulting Time will be set 15 minutes after the start of every Game.

3.     The Rate of Play for each player to make all his/her moves necessary to finish the game shall be THIRTY (30) MINUTES. The use of chess clocks shall be mandatory.

4.     Recording of moves is OPTIONAL. However, each team, through their Coach and/or Team Captain, must fill-up and submit the Team Result Form to the Chief Arbiter for proper recording of every Match Result.

IV.           TIE-BREAK SYSTEM:

1.     For the Final Ranking in the Elimination Phase and the Final Standings in the Championship Phase, ties shall be broken as follows;

1.1       Total Match Points,

1.2       Direct Encounter (result of the match/es between/among the tied teams (winner-over-the-other). If the match is drawn (1-1 tie), then the result of the game on Board 1 shall decide the tie. If the result on Board 1 is a draw, then the result of the game on Board 2 shall decide the tie. . If the result on Board 3 is a draw, then the result of the game on Board 4 shall decide the tie.

1.3       Sonnenborn-Berger (SB) System.

1.4       More No. of wins based on Match points

2.     For the Final Individual Board Results (players tied only on percentages), based on the Elimination Phase;

2.1       by winner-over-the-other,

2.2       by the most number of games played,

2.3       by the most number of won games,

2.4       by the most number of black pieces handled

I wonder how can there be ONLY four teams in the championship round if there will be 2 sets of Top 4 teams after the elimination phase---remember the two divisions? Gotta ask my Athletics Director about this.

In the meantime, the position below came up in our chess training the other in our Sports Program After School:

PhoneVideo Capture from Shell Grand Finals 2013

Here is one Endgame I captured from the event I covered. Sorry about the viewpoint!

Live Coverage: Day 2 of 2013 Grand Finals Shell NYACC

Day 2 of our live blog coverage is made possible through the assistance of the following people and organization:

• Mr. Robert "Bobby" Ang, RP's Premier Chess Journalist
• Sheila Mariano and the Filipino Migrant News-NZ
• Dra. Daigdig "Dig" Paras, OBGYN
• Mr. Carlos Ansus, IT and Software Solution Specialist 
• Mrs. Rose Christensen and Family
• Ferdinand A. Buenaventura

Live Coverage: 2013 Grand Finals Shell SNYACC

This live blog coverage is made possible through the assistance of the following: 

• Mr. Robert "Bobby" Ang, RP's Premier Chess Journalist
• Sheila Mariano and The Filipino Migrant News-NZ
• Dra. Daigdig "Dig" Paras, OBGYN
• Mr. Carlos Ansus, IT and Software Solution Specialist 
• Mrs. Rose Christensen and Family

 

Countdown to the 2013 Grand Finals of Shell NYACC

We are covering it live!!!

2013 Philippine National Juniors Chess Championships

Congratulations to NM Jerad Docena and WNM Jan Jodilyn Fronda for winning this year's edition of Philippine National Juniors Championship for boys and girls divisions respectively.

NM Docena bested twelve other players with a score of 6.5 points in 9 rounds while WNM Fronda scored 6 points in a field of 11 players in 7 rounds.

Check out 2013 National Juniors Championship Boys Division and Girls Division for an overview of all the players results.

And if you would want your kids to learn chess and play like these age groupers who seem to play like the pros but don't know where to start, you can direct them to http://chesscademy.com/login. Learning chess via online videos, nothing new, nothing spectacular but very effective --and its Free.

RIP Rudolfo Tan-Cardoso

Asia's first-ever International Chess Master Rudolfu Tan-Cardoso died of a heart attack at the age of 75 last August 21, 2013 at 3:10 P.M.. 

A chess player, enemy over the board, teacher and father/lolo figure in the Philippine chess community, he is best known for beating Robert "Bobby" Fischer in this game in 1957.  The year before this, he won the Philippine National Junior Championship.

He played for the flag in four Chess Olympiads with the following board assignments and results:

• 1956, Board 4 in the 12th Chess Olympiad in Moscow (11 wins, 4 draws, 2 defeats)
• 1958, Board 1 in the 13th Chess Olympiad in Munich (10 wins, 5 draws, 4 defeats)
• 1972, Board 2 in the 20th Chess Olympiad in Skopje (10 wins, 3 draws, 4 defeats)
• 1974, Board 2 in the 21st Chess Olympiad in Nice (9 wins, 4 draws, 6 defeats)  

He won the silver medal at the 1956 Olympiad with a winning percentage of .765.

I met Mang Rudy a couple of times in tournaments and chess workshops while I "chaperoning" for my brother-in-law in these events while he would simply look around and check out talents. 

Thanks for all the contribution you have given to Philippine chess. They will not be forgotten. You students will always remember you.

Farewell IM Rudolfo Tan-Cardoso! 

 

Win with a Crazy Opening

Here is an easy win for me using a crazy opening, 6-Pawn plank:

 

Tricky Diagonals FTW!

Here is the only game I won in five games against my opponent. The use of diagonals with my bishops and queen were very helpful for me to get the win. Here is the game:

FIDE Trainers Seminar - RP 2013

We now have the result of the recently-concluded FIDE Trainers Seminar in Manila, Philippines. Midas Hotel was the host for the Asian Continental Championships and the seminar. THe lecturers were GM and FST  Efstratios Grivas (Greece - Secretary of the FIDE Trainers’ Commission), assisted by the first ever Asian GM (& FST) Eugene Torre and GM & FT Jayson Gonzales (both Philippines).

At least our Filipino chess teachers have "teaching certification" to show their paying clients and I do hope they know the basic tenets of teaching and learning process. As we all know, chess coaching or training is more than being a strong chess player. Chess teaching is basically teaching, bringing in the fun and excitement.

Some easily recognized names in the field of Philippine chess coaching and teaching are in the list: Erwin Carag, Rudy Ibanez and Joel Hicap.

So may I present to you the graduates of the FTS-Manila 2013:

FTS Table by buenaventura_f_a

Champion with a Perfect Score @ ChessCube

Whenever I use my wife's FB account for my chess activities over at ChessCube, I always score a high percentage. And tonight I did something I've never done before and that is winning a tournament with a perfect score.

Here are the screenshots:

Time control is 2 minutes and we had 31 players for the tourney. At the start of the tournament, I asked my son, M, to sit beside me because he was my lucky charm. I wasn't expecting this result.

Lucky, lucky lucky!

Chess with Jughead

Chess was featured in the Best of Jughead, Crowning Achievements by Tom Root, Craig Boldman and Rex Lindsey.

In the story The Right Moves, Jughead was playing chess with Archie in the opening frame:

Archie: "I didn't know you were a chess player!"

Jughead: "The grand game of strategy and skirmish? Sure!"

Go out and buy this one, for the comic book freak and lover of chess.

2013 Summer Chess Camp @ Beacon School

The word is out, together with FIDE Instructor Norlito Bersamina, I'll be running the first Summer Chess Camp @ Beacon School this month of June. Yes you read it right, its summer time for us come June and everyone is invited to join in the fun.

The Camp is open to all interested, Beacon or non-Beacon students, fourteen year old and below.

Scholastic Chess 2013

A Win Against 8-Year Old Josh

I lost a 10-minute-game against Josh this morning but was aching to get one over him and I did this afternoon. Thanks to Chessmaster XI Grandmaster Edition.

Let us watch the game below: