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Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Makinano, Padillo both at first place
By Jaime A. Frias II
Sun.Star Correspondent
Cebu's Anthony Makinano and Dumaguete’s Glecerio Padillo shared first place in the 1st Asterio “Don Teroy” F. Senador Memorial Open Chess Championships, which ended Sunday at the Negros 64 Club in Dumaguete City.
Makinano, who tied for third place in the 6th Bangkok, Thailand Open chess tournament, drew his last game with Fernando Montaño of Dipolog City, while Pardillo defeated Tanjay-based National Master Rolzon Roullo, a native of Toledo City, in the final round of the seven-round Swiss system tournament.
The arbiters automatically declared Makinano and Padillo as joint champions without applying the bucholz tie-break, a common tie-break system in the Swiss-round format.
“I was a bit embarrassed because I thought I was the champion as it seemed I had the bigger tie-break points,” Makinano told Sun.Star Cebu. But Makinano said that he accepted the arbiters’ decision.
Draw
He also drew his game against another Dumaguete player, Evan Tampi, in 50 moves of the Scoth Gambit.
However, Tampi, with the white pieces, failed to capitalize on his pawn advantage in the middle game, while the top-rated Cebuano found a way to compensate for the pawn down that ended to a dead draw in the opposite bishop endgame.
In the penultimate round, Makinano also defeated NM Roullo in 45 moves of the Benko Gambit.
Makinano, wielding the white pieces, controlled black’s weak dark squares after Roullo exchanged his active bishop defender on g7 to the knight on d4, which allowed white’s long dark-stride bishop, queen and knight to generate a tremendous pressure to black’s king.
The pressure forced Roullo to commit a series of blunders including the self-destructing f5 push that weakened the king’s shelve.
In the fifth round, Makinano stopped the winning streak of fourth-round leader Arnold Sumoza.
Versatile
The versatile Makinano, with the white pieces, gripped the position of Sumoza from the opening to the endgame in 53 moves of the French Defense, which turned black’s pieces to passive position until he gave a piece to free his other pieces but did not last.
Kim Steven Yap, on the other hand, tied for third to fifth places along with NM Ryan Trajera and Arnold Sumoza with 5.5 points apiece.
The 18-year-old Yap, who is eyeing the junior title of this year’s Shell National Youth Active Chess Cebu Leg on Aug. 19-20, was named the best junior chesser of the tournament.
Nine Cebuano woodpushers joined the Dumaguete chessfest. They all confirmed to play in the Tanjay Open Chess Tournament on Saturday. The tournament site is about an hour’s ride from Dumaguete.
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