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Bennett TOP PRICES PAID. Hilton in Palau Please contact us with details for an offer. EVERYTHING FOR CHESS AT N.Z.C.S. NZ Chess I 2 3 New Zealand Chess STOP PRESS Official joumal of the New Zealand Chess Congress Entries to Date New Zealand Chess Federation (Inc.), published in February, April, Championship: Volume 33 Number 5 October 2006 June, Augus! October, December. Anthony Ker. 2j6l PuchenWang. 2296 CONTENTS Tim Reilly. 2273 FIDE 4. ltt Palau International Chess Tournament CORRESPONDENCE Bob smith. 2276 Hilton Bennett is victorious in thefirst International Chess Championship held in Subscriptions, Graeme Spain. 22j0 the PaciJic paradise of the Palau Islands. Paul Spiller reports. Editorial correspondence, copy and advertising Mike Steadman. 2209 8. New Z,ealand Junior Championship 2006 inquiries should be sent to Peter Stuart. 2056 FM Bob Smith reports a good turnoutfor this tournament held in July. Sixty six Chris 2023 Burns. players took part with Gino Thornton qs the top seed and eventual winner.. New Zealand Chess Major Open: 17. P O Box 1627 North shore Open Tatpo,2730 Helen Milligan. 20i7 FIDE A report by NM Peter Stuart on this event where Leonard Mclaren went on to a triangle@world-net. co.nz NathanGoodhue. 1980 convincing victory. GinoThornton. 1978 a', New Zealand News Bill Forster. 1924 Opinions expressed in articles, letters and other Wefarewell chess stalwart Allan Smith plus Grand Prix standings as at the end Stan Yee. 189i contributions are those ofthe authors. Letters of Oaober are listed. Fuatai 1891 on chess topics are welcome; limit 150 words Fuatai. 1888 23. Correspondence Chess and marked "for publication." NeilGunn. Sean Watharow. 1784 Gordon Hoskyn profiles Wanganui chess enthusiast Bernard Nicholson and William Lynn. 1782 prwides an ovetyiew of an interesting andvaried life both at and awayfrom the EDITORIAL Gordon HoslEn. 1677 chessboard. Also Trophy Tourneys progress and some games by Brett Sinclair, JohnPakenham 1664 Editor: Graeme Trass held overfrom the last issue, complete the column. Justin Davis 1647 26. World News viv smith. 1642 John McDonald backgrounds the World Championship Unfication match Michael Ll/u. 1626 between Topalov and Kramnik In addition the Essent, NH chess tournaments Tony Booth. 1598 ANNUAL STIB SCRIPTION RATES andJunior World Championships are coyered. David Bell. 1573 New Zealand, $24.00. Bruce Kay. 1544 Australi4 South Pacific, $US12.00 airmail. Bob 1542 Next Issue: Ratings for Period 2 and part one of Vivian Smith's self-portrait plus East Asi4 N Americ4 $US15.00 airmail Mitchell. Mathew King. 1519 games. Europe, $US17.50 airmail, $12.50 economy. John 1490 Rest of world, $US20.00 airmail, $US15.00 Wilson. Edith economy. Otene. 1476 Stewart 1470 Some back issues available - send for details. Holiday. 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With many of the local wanese President and his entourage and mem- players having full time jobs, rounds had to Palau, Micronesia. tries, successful tournaments have now been bers ofthe delegations ofthe other 6 nations be squeezed in to any available time slots , so AAer competing in the 3'd IGB Dato Tan Ma- held in Papua New Guine4 Fiji and most re- involved. In fact, the Hotel became wranazirg some games were played quite late at night. laysian Chess Championship, kiwi players cently Palau. The aim of these toumaments is hub of activity,btzzirgwith media including at Gary even managed to squeeze in 3 games Hilton Bennett and Paul Spiller travelled on to to give opportunities for the local players to least 5 or 6 film crews, rewspaper reporters (we during one day which was probably not the compete in the first ever International Chess gain FIDE ratings and to give some impetus to met the Reuters correspondent based in Tai- best for his chess. Championship to be held in the Palau Islands the development ofchess in these countries wan) police (including 2 police launch patrols) The first 4 rounds were played at the PRR (August 3 l-September 4,2006) . For those not and to encourage them to take a more active security guards and various delegates and hang- over the 31"1 August and l"t of September. familiar with the location of Palau (or Belau as role in Oceania chess. This has certainly been ers on. We later learnt that the Taiwanese alone Gary Bekker set the early pace after a first it is known locally) it is approximately 1200 achieved with Fiji now about to host its second had chartered two passengerjets to fly in their round draw with Marlon followed by three km east ofthe Philippines and about two and a OceariaZone Championships in May 2007 personnel!. Anyway, all ofthis provided an wins on the trot against Menandro, Pastrana half hours flying time from Manila. There are after hosting the2002 Zorral event and an In- interesting diversion to the happenings sur- and Nedic. He was followed closely by Hil- only a few possible routes to get to Palau, ternational Championship in 2003. It also rounding the toumament, which was in itself ton, I and Marlon with 2 wins, 2 draws each. either flying via looks likely that quite extraordinary. Hilton conceded draws to myself and Gene Manila (with a day the tournament in The tournament finally became a reality after Pastrana; Marlon to Manuel Menandro and stopover) as we did Palau will become several months ofuncertainty and was played myself to Cyril Montel who played the unor- or via Guam out of an annual event as a l0 player round robin event using the stan- thodox reply 1...Nh6 to my I f4 Bird's Open- Darwin. There is with the pledged dard FIDE time control of 90 minutes plus 30 ing. A recommendation by GM Mark Paragua also an alternative support ofthe seconds added per move. To make up the field according to Marlon! Hilton had also come route via Taiwan as Philippines ambas- myself and Hilton were invited from New Zea- close to losing against Manuel Menandro well. sador at the clos- land along with Filipino MarlonBemadino who early on but Manuel couldn't find the correct Palaq as we soon mg ceremony. at FIDE 2170 was the top seed. Marlon is a well continuation in time trouble and overstepped. discovered, is a The kiwi duo fi- known personality in Manila and runs his own Hilton's Budapest was getting a good work- beautiful archipel- nally arrived in slot on the local radio.