ESTH qualified to the next phase ( 3rd round) by winning 3-1 after a tough 5h battle vs Keraunos Oreokastrou .
ESK did not make it to the next round ,losing on the Berlin tiebreak criteria .
ESTH-KERAYNOS 3-1
Mastrovasilis A-Papakonstantinou D 1-0
Kalogeris I-Iskos Alexandros 1/2
Malikentzos S-Tsarouhas V 1-0
Papadimitriou A-Triantafilidis, Mihail 1/2
ESK-SO SAX 2-2
Ballas A- Batsi L 1-0
Bizopoulos A-Samaridis K 0-1
Ballas Kl-Vlassis G 0-1
Drakaki AM-Dritsas 1-0
Tomorrow (18/3/2019) we have the kick off the European Men Championship 2019 , at the nearby city of Skopje.
http://chess-results.com/tnr404992.aspx?lan=1
Above you can see the starting list of players. Many interesting games are to be expected , we are going to update you during the course of the tournament !
Greek players participating :
| 103 | GM | Halkias Stelios | 4201809 | GRE | 2552 |
| 115 | GM | Kelires Andreas | 5900727 | GRE | 2529 |
| 190 | IM | Kourkoulos-Arditis Stamatis | 4221990 | GRE | 2435 |
| 201 | IM | Megalios Konstantinos | 4238044 | GRE | 2416 |
| 205 | IM | Ioannidis Evgenios | 4229274 | GRE | 2412 |
| 236 | FM | Kalogeris Ioannis | 4239563 | GRE | 2368 |
| 249 | Mitsis Georgios | 4295676 | GRE | 2338 |
Good luck to all the Greek players and especially to Kalogeris I , member of our club , ESTH !
Thessaloniki’s Youth team is the winner of the 11th Youth Team Championship for 2018 with a perfect winning strike of 6/6 !
The tournament took place at the Filippion Hotel of Thessaloniki . The best Greek Youth participated and fought for the top places !
Our team managed to conquer the Youth Team Greek title performing very well in all six boards
We would like to congratulate all our players :
1st board Vlachos Anatole
2nd board Kazakos Markos & Tsarsitalidis Konstantinos
3rd board Stoimenidis Dimitris & Koutlas
4th board Tsarsitalidis Hristos
5th board Pasglou Nikoleta
6th board Tzovani Dimitra and the captain and trainer of the team : GM Mastrovasilis Athanasios and his second Dorfanis Aris
Our academies are working hard the last years ,the results are visible ,our goal is to remain at the very top for the years to follow and improve Thessaloniki’s chess level ! Congrats once more to players trainers and parents for their support and help !
More info at the official site :
41st Women Greek Championship of 2018 took place at Filippion Hotel of Thessaloniki . Organizer Mr Tsarouhas V.
Top three places :
1.Makka I 7.5/9 ( her first title !)
2.Pavlidou Ek 7/9
3.Tsivelekidou E 5.5/9
Final standings and more info at the official site :
The Greek Youth Team finished 14th .
Vlachos Anatole ( from ESThessaloniki ) represented our colours on the 1st board
| Rank after Round 9 | ||||||||||
| Rank | SNo. | Team | Gam. | + | = | – | MP | SBOly | Pts. | MPSum |
| 1 | 1 | UZBEKISTAN | 9 | 8 | 1 | 16 | 264 | 26½ | 91 | |
| 2 | 3 | INDIA | 9 | 7 | 2 | 14 | 230 | 22 | 98 | |
| 3 | 25 | CHINA | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 228 | 23 | 94 |
| 4 | 13 | BELARUS | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 213 | 21½ | 92 |
| 5 | 5 | IRAN | 9 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 242 | 25 | 95 | |
| 6 | 6 | ARMENIA | 9 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 202½ | 23½ | 84 | |
| 7 | 9 | UKRAINE | 9 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 182½ | 21 | 90 | |
| 8 | 4 | AZERBAIJAN | 9 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 175½ | 21 | 83 | |
| 9 | 16 | KAZAKHSTAN | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 174½ | 22 | 77 |
| 10 | 8 | USA | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 169 | 19 | 90 |
| 11 | 14 | ISRAEL | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 164½ | 21 | 78 |
| 12 | 21 | TURKEY – WHITE | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 159 | 20½ | 84 |
| 13 | 2 | RUSSIA | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 174 | 19 | 93 |
| 14 | 7 | GREECE | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 163½ | 19 | 80 |
| 15 | 17 | GEORGIA | 9 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 162½ | 20 | 86 | |
| 16 | 12 | FRANCE | 9 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 140½ | 19 | 76 | |
| 17 | 36 | TURKEY-GIRLS | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 140½ | 19 | 68 |
| 18 | 20 | MOLDOVA | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 138½ | 18½ | 81 |
| 19 | 10 | SERBIA | 9 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 138 | 19 | 79 | |
| 20 | 22 | SLOVAKIA | 9 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 131 | 20½ | 75 | |
we unfortunately lost the critical 9th round
| 9.5 | 9 | UKRAINE | 2½ – 1½ | 7 | GREECE | ||
| 1 | IM | Matviishen, Viktor | 2476 | ½ : ½ | FM | Vlachos, Anatole | 2434 |
| 2 | FM | Baidetskyi, Valentin | 2398 | ½ : ½ | FM | Spyropoulos, Nikolaos | 2378 |
| 3 | Galperin, Platon | 2334 | 1 : 0 | Mitsis, Georgios | 2350 | ||
| 4 | Berdnyk, Mariia | 2254 | ½ : ½ | FM | Katopodis, Dimitrios | 2310 |
captain of the team ,the experienced GM Kapnisis Spiridon
For the second in a row year the Greek Men Championship was held at the Filippion Hotel of Thessaloniki . Organizer Mr Tsarouhas V
Top 3 places :
1.Mastrovasilis Athanasios 7/9 ( player of our club ESThessaloniki)
2.Ioannidis E 6.5/9
3.Kourkoulos A 6/9
Final standings and more info at the official site :
Carlsen retains his title with the crushing 3-0 at the tie-breaks
Convincing win for the W Champion who managed to beat the challenger Caruana following the same recipe of the 2016 WCh match !
Carlsen vs Caruana 6-6 with 12 straight draws !
The Title will be decided on the 28th of November ,fascinating tie breaks are to be expected !
Our young team performed convincingly beating all opposition at the preliminary phase of the Youth team championship !
Our second team ES Kalamarias lost the final critical match and failed to qualify for the final phase .
Congrats to all the kids for their effort!
The last years our academies are raising to the very top following experienced trainers!