2009 Acropolis update

24th INTERNATIONAL CHESS TOURNAMENT ACROPOLIS 2009
10th to 18th August 2009
Chalkida – Hellas

BULLETIN 2

PRESS RELEASE – ROUND 2

The 24th ICT Acropolis 2009 was continued with its second round games, after the un-expected free day due to the sad death of Greek player Nikolaos Karapanos over the board. As the tournament is quite strong due to the presence of 86 titled players out of 100 in total participants (!), there were many hard encounters.

The tournament’s favorites the Israeli Ilia Smirin and the Bosnian Borki Predojevic continued positively, and together with Yuri Yakovich and Vladimir Belov (Russia), Eduards Rozentalis (Lithuania), Sergei Azarov (Belarus), Antoaneta Stefanova (Bulgaria) and the Greek players Stelios Halkias and Spiros Kapnisis leads the event with the absolute (2/2).

This year’s Acropolis ICT is a co-organisation of the Greek Chess Federation and the Chalkida Chess Academy ‘Palamedes of Evia’, sponsored by the Greek Ministry of Tourism and the Greek National Tourism Organisation (EOT), the Greek Ministry of Culture, the Greek General Secretariat of Sports, the Region of Attica, the Region of Sterea Ellada, the Prefecture of Evia, the Chalkida Municipality, the TEDK N. Evias, the Football Games Prognosis Organisation (OPAP), the Chalkida Sports Organisation and the ‘Chalkis’ AVEE.

Press Officer
GM Efstratios Grivas

Round 2 – Results

Bo. Surname/Name Result Surname/Name

1 Chirila Ioan-Cristian 0 – 1 Smirin Ilia
2 Predojevic Borki 1 – 0 Nikolaidis Ioannis
3 Romanishin Oleg M 0 – 1 Azarov Sergei
4 Belov Vladimir 1 – 0 Mastrovasilis Athanasios
5 Koneru Humpy ½ – ½ Danielian Elina
6 Kapnisis Spyridon 1 – 0 Gurevich Mikhail
7 Mamedov Nidjat ½ – ½ Managadze Nikoloz
8 Can Emre ½ – ½ Svetushkin Dmitry
9 Gelashvili Tamaz ½ – ½ Papadopoulos Ioannis K
10 Georgiadis Ioannis ½ – ½ Banikas Hristos
11 Rozentalis Eduardas 1 – 0 Melia Salome
12 Maric Alisa 0 – 1 Yakovich Yuri
13 Kolev Atanas ½ – ½ Yilmaz Mustafa
14 Zawadzka Jolanta ½ – ½ Mastrovasilis Dimitrios
15 David Alberto ½ – ½ Reshetnikov Alexey