So, Antonio 6th round match to be replayed
03/28/2009 06:41 PM
The decision was made by National Chess Federation of the Philippines (NCFP) president Prospero “Butch” Piichay, who also nullified the result of the match because of its very quick ending. He added that the replay of the match will be on Monday.
The NCFP president justified his decision by citing the association’s past rulings regarding matches that were played in less than 30 moves and ended in draws.
Because of this development, So and Antonio will maintain their fifth-round scores. So is unbeaten in five matches and has accumulated 10 points while Antonio has seven.
In other matches, GMs Darwin Laylo forced fellow GM Buenaventura “Bong”
Villamayor into a stalemate after a marathon 119 moves of the Slav to move up to solo second spot with 7.5 points.
Laylo gained 1.5 points in his stalemate win based on the points system being used in the tournament where a win gets two points, a draw one point, a loss no point and a stalemate 1.5 point with the stalemated player getting 0.5 points.
Tied for third to fourth spots were GM John Paul Gomez, who halved the point with International Master Richard Bitoon in 50 moves of the Sicilian, and Antonio.
GMs Eugene Torre, Mark Paragua and Jayson Gonzales’ matches also ended in draws.
Torre, Asia’s first GM, halved the point with IM Julio Catalino Sadorra in 60 moves of the English, Paragua drew with IM Rolando Nolte in 32 moves of the Slav while Gonzales split the point with IM Ronald Dableo in 32 moves of the King’s Indian.
The three – Torre, Paragua and Bitoon – are tied for fifth to eight spots while Sadorra, is alone at ninth spot. – GMANews.TV
Source: http://www.gmanews.tv
If the GMs want us to believe it’s such an easy draw, let them put in a little extra effort to make it clear. They should understand that the only reason they get payed at all is because of public interest, which results in sponsoring and government funding. Grandmaster draws are nothing but arrogance.
He’s the real deal. This kid will be 2700 soon.
hey jetze , he already 6.5/7,u want you a perfect 7/7 score? so be it
he beat them all with less than 30 moves
Recent rules disallow AGREEING to a draw in less than 30 moves. This one, however, was a result of move repetition, which as So himself said, was unavoidable because he would put himself in an inferior position if he didn’t repeat moves. This is, thus, a very legit draw and should not be nullified. That stupid chess president probably doesn’t play much chess, and doesn’t understand the 30-move rule.
I think its not an “agreed drawn game”. The game is a threefold repettion.
The Sofia rule “The players could not draw by agreement, but they could have technical draws (stalemate, threefold repetition, fifty-move rule, and insufficient material)”.
[Event “Battle of Grandmasters”]
[Site “Dapitan City, PHI”]
[Date “2009.03.27”]
[Round “6.1”]
[White “Rogelio Antonio Jr”]
[Black “Wesley So”]
[Result “1/2-1/2”]
[ECO “B01”]
[WhiteElo “2519”]
[BlackElo “2627”]
[PlyCount “41”]
[EventDate “2009.03.24”]
1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 c6 6. Bc4 Bg4 7. h3 Bxf3 8. Qxf3 e6 9. O-O Nbd7 10. Ne4 Nxe4 11. Qxe4 Nf6 12. Qf3 Bd6 13. c3 O-O 14. Re1 Rfd8 15. Bb3 Rac8 16. Be3 Qc7 17. Bg5 Be7 18. Bf4 Bd6 19. Bg5 Be7 20. Bf4 Bd6 21. Bg5 1/2-1/2
This is where a proposal I made in a Saturday Forum some weeks ago could come in: Both players would switch colours and play against an engine of the organizer’s choice. They would try to reach move 40 without showing more than a “+=” inferiority against the engine.
Here Rybka 3 gives White about +0.30—at move 18 or 20, i.e. with White’s dark-square Bishop on g5—but in lines where White must retreat it to e3 or d2 or c1. This is “not much to write home about” for White—but maybe the prospect of facing Rybka as black here would make White try a natural move like 20.Rad1 instead.
The main points of my proposal are () it doesn’t interfere with the players’ wishes; () it gives the public an explanation of why the game was felt to be drawn, () it gives the organizer a 40-move guarantee per game, and () it serves as a deterrent for truly cowardly draws.
Let me also mention that [] in several major 1800s tournaments, *all* draws were replayed. Also, playing my first “big Open” in 25+ years in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, I heard the sponsor give (in French) [] an impassioned plea for real fights on the top boards—even saying he’d want to withhold at least the extra top prize money that was added when the event surpassed its paid-entries target. The appeal worked!—the two GMs who placed 1-2 drew but with a wild 4-hr. game where either could have won in the last 9 moves, and the other 3 games on the demo boards were decisive—alas my win on board 4 was not enough for a prize.
The draw was legit. Pres. decision also legit. Let the games begin!
The president of the Philippine federation claims he is a chess player but he really isn’t. He’s a career politician whose primary interest in chess lies only in how far it can take him in the next election.
So don’t be surprised by this apparently boneheaded decision to replay the game.