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BANIEL IS CHAMPION DULGER MADE HISTORY!
By Andres D. Hortillosa The US Armed Forces Inter-Service Chess Championship was a seven-round USCF-rated tournament held from June 9-12, 2008. Twenty players, six Air Force, six Army, six Navy, and two Marines came to the desert base for the annual team championship and the selection of the US Armed Forces Chess Team. The hosting responsibility is rotated between the services and this year’s event was successfully staged by the Air Force at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona. Next year, the Army will host the tournament at Fort Myer, Virginia. Army Specialist Baniel succeeded in demolishing the Air Force surgeon Dr. (Colonel) Echaure in the last round to secure top honors finishing with 5.5 points.
A week-long stellar performance earned him a hallowed place in the tradition-rich annals of military chess. His name is forever etched in the record books alongside world famous players like IM Emory Tate. The sensation of the tournament, Elena Dulger of the Air Force finished in clear second. The young airwoman’s impressive performance commences a new beginning in military chess. For the first time ever, a woman player makes the roster of the US Armed Forces Chess Team for the NATO Chess Championship in Brussels, Belgium. The noted IM Elizabeth Phatz represented Germany last year.
Other members of the team for the prestigious NATO event are: Tech Sgt. Robert A. Bucholtz (Air Force), Lt. Commander Paul L. Choate (Navy), and Corporal Carrelli (Marines). The last spot is being determined this very moment by a playoff match between MSgt. Dan P. Ranario (Air Force) and Captain Christopher Pitts (Army).
This scheme puts players who finish in 4th, 5th and 6th places, respectively, in a playoff scenario. If the team is chosen by the order of their respective standings, the members would be in this order: Baniel (Army), Dulger (Air Force), Bucholtz (Air Force), Ranario (Air Force), Pitts (Army) and Choate (Navy). In this configuration, two are Army, three are Air Force and just one Navy will comprise the team. The Marines will not be represented but the team yields the strongest field.
The Air Force
bested the Army for the team championship by one point, Air Force totaled
26.5 points and the Army totaled 25.5 points. Had West won his
struggle against Adkins, the team event for this year would have been tied
between the two perennial rivals at 26.5 points each. The Navy
finished in the distant third with 11.5 points. The Marines with just two
players finished with 6.5 points. Individual Final Standings
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unique rules for determining the composition of the team call for a playoff
match between the 5th and 6th finishers if not all
services have a player in the top four. The Marine qualifier finished
17th but because each service must be represented by its top
scorer regardless of final standing, he makes the team.
Decisive
results in the last round changed the ranking order dramatically.
Pitts (Army) defeated Keough, the top seed for the Air Force. Macaspac
(Army) who normally makes the team lost to Ranario (Air Force). Both
Pitts and Ranario, with their decisive games in the last round, earned them
a playoff and the winner the last spot on the team.
