HIARCS for Palm won a GM tournament in the Philippines where many chess masters competed. Hiarcs played on an ordinary standard Palm Lifedrive PDA and became the first handheld chess player in history to win a tournament with Grandmasters and International Masters.
The tournament had no less than 2 Grandmasters (including Super GM Mark Paragua), 7 International Masters, 5 Fide Masters, 18 National Masters and 1 Women's International Master, and not forgetting 1 handheld PDA!
Tournament report of the Congressman Pichay Invitational Chess Tuneup Festival 2nd leg by Reginald Tee (a Palm Chess HIARCS customer).
I used my lifedrive for this tournament. The highlight of the tournament was the last round encounter of tournament leader and only Pilipino super GM Mark Paragua (Elo 2617) with 5.5pts. after six round against Palm Hiarcs 9.6 (life drive) with 5.0pts. I, Reginald Tee owner and operator of Lifedrive set the Palm Hiarcs setting to level: game in preset , 20mins. As the game was played on a tme control of G/25mins. Playing style was set to aggressive and threat depth to 5, search to extremely selective and no to combination. The last round encounter was to decide to the champion of the tournament. Super GM Paragua open up with a centre game.
Rank | Name | Elo | Score | Buch. | Progr. | Berg. | Points |
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1st | HIARCS, palm | 2600 | 6.0 | 31.5 | 22.0 | 26.00 | 6 |
=2nd | GM PARAGUA, Mark | 2617 | 5.5 | 33.5 | 26.0 | 25.25 | 5 |
=2nd | FM BARBOSA, Oliver | 2421 | 5.5 | 29.5 | 21.5 | 22.25 | 5 |
=2nd | IM DABLEO, Ronald | 2421 | 5.5 | 29.0 | 21.5 | 21.75 | 5 |
=2nd | FM SO, Wesley | 2254 | 5.5 | 28.0 | 20.5 | 20.50 | 5 |
=6th | GM ANTONIO, Rogelio | 2539 | 5.0 | 30.0 | 20.5 | 21.50 | 4 |
=6th | IM SENADOR, Emanuel | 2400 | 5.0 | 28.5 | 21.5 | 19.50 | 4 |
=6th | FM DIMAKILING, Oliver | 2452 | 5.0 | 27.5 | 16.0 | 18.50 | 5 |
=6th | FM SALES, Jesse | 2349 | 5.0 | 25.0 | 18.0 | 15.00 | 5 |
=10th | IM GARMA, Chito | 4.5 | 33.5 | 22.0 | 20.00 | 3 | |
=10th | FM SALIMBAGAT, Rico | 4.5 | 26.0 | 20.0 | 13.50 | 4 | |
=10th | IM NADERA, Bario | 2405 | 4.5 | 26.0 | 15.5 | 14.00 | 4 |
=10th | NM DE RAMOS, Julius | 2191 | 4.5 | 21.5 | 13.5 | 11.75 | 4 |
=14th | IM ROCA, Petronio | 2412 | 4.0 | 33.0 | 22.0 | 16.50 | 4 |
=14th | NM NAVA, Roderick | 2296 | 4.0 | 29.5 | 20.0 | 13.00 | 4 |
=14th | PANOPIO, Rodolfo | 4.0 | 28.0 | 17.5 | 13.75 | 3 | |
=14th | NM CARAG, Erwin | 4.0 | 27.5 | 18.0 | 12.00 | 4 | |
=14th | LOPEZ, Henry | 4.0 | 27.5 | 15.0 | 13.25 | 3 | |
=14th | IM BANCOD, Ronald | 2374 | 4.0 | 25.5 | 16.0 | 12.00 | 4 |
=14th | NM MANAOG, Stewart | 4.0 | 22.0 | 19.0 | 10.50 | 4 | |
=14th | NM BERNARDINO, Marlon | 4.0 | 21.0 | 16.0 | 10.00 | 4 | |
=22nd | NM IBANEZ, Rudy | 3.5 | 31.0 | 17.0 | 14.00 | 3 | |
=22nd | NM BAGAMASBAD, Efren | 3.5 | 27.0 | 18.5 | 10.25 | 3 | |
=22nd | NM ALISANGCO, Nicomedes | 3.5 | 27.0 | 14.0 | 10.00 | 3 | |
=22nd | NM NISPEROS, Nick | 3.5 | 26.0 | 13.5 | 10.75 | 3 | |
=22nd | NM GARMA, Edgardo | 3.5 | 25.5 | 15.0 | 11.00 | 3 | |
=22nd | NM SEGARRA, Randy | 3.5 | 24.5 | 13.5 | 10.75 | 3 | |
=22nd | NM BALICO, Gerome | 2366 | 3.5 | 23.0 | 11.5 | 7.75 | 3 |
=22nd | PAEZ, Alfredo | 3.5 | 19.0 | 10.5 | 7.00 | 3 | |
=30th | FRONDA, Jude | 3.0 | 27.5 | 13.0 | 11.00 | 3 | |
=30th | IM BITOON, Richard | 2433 | 3.0 | 27.5 | 13.5 | 8.25 | 2 |
=30th | NM MAA, Mirabeau | 3.0 | 22.0 | 12.0 | 6.50 | 2 | |
=30th | NM AGAGON, Eduardo | 3.0 | 21.0 | 12.0 | 6.00 | 3 | |
=30th | NM ESTIMO, Sammy | 2279 | 3.0 | 21.0 | 10.5 | 7.00 | 2 |
=30th | CRUZ, Kathleen Ann | 3.0 | 20.5 | 9.0 | 5.50 | 3 | |
=30th | WIM MARIANO, Christine Rose | 3.0 | 20.0 | 9.0 | 5.00 | 3 | |
=30th | FRONDA, Jan Jodilyn | 3.0 | 16.5 | 8.0 | 5.50 | 3 | |
=38th | NM MILAGROSA, Alexander | 2.5 | 25.5 | 13.5 | 9.25 | 2 | |
=38th | NM VASQUEZ, Andrew | 2.5 | 21.0 | 9.5 | 5.25 | 2 | |
=38th | BERNALES, Christy | 2.5 | 21.0 | 5.5 | 2.25 | 1 | |
=38th | FM PACIS, Adrian | 2.5 | 20.0 | 6.0 | 3.25 | 1 | |
=38th | NM ZUNIGA, Dante | 2.5 | 19.0 | 8.5 | 6.00 | 1 | |
=43rd | SUEDE, Mikee | 2.0 | 25.5 | 10.0 | 6.50 | 2 | |
=43rd | DAYLO, Leo | 2.0 | 22.5 | 9.0 | 2.50 | 1 | |
=43rd | REYES, Ferdinand Jr. | 2.0 | 21.0 | 6.0 | 4.50 | 2 | |
=43rd | GARCIA, Jan Emmanuel | 2.0 | 20.5 | 10.0 | 3.50 | 2 | |
=43rd | TEVES, Steven | 2.0 | 18.5 | 7.0 | 1.00 | 1 | |
=48th | SUEDE, Akiko | 1.0 | 24.0 | 4.0 | 0.00 | 0 | |
=48th | GUANSING, Jennilyn | 1.0 | 19.0 | 5.0 | 0.00 | 0 |
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1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. Qxd4 Nc6 4. Qe3 Nf6 5. Nc3 Bb4 6. Bd2 |
Reginald Tee operating Palm HIARCS against GM Mark Paragua
In their previous encounter last December 2005, super GM Paragua was able to draw with the Palm Hiarcs 9.5 (T5) running on normal mode optimize setting. GM Paragua vs. Palm Hiarcs , GM Paragua opened with...
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1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 c6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bd3 Bb7 9. |