The Greek Team Championship for the year 2021 is separated in two sections . The south sections finished in the beginning of September in Athens and two teams won the ticket for the F4 ,Evoiki and Nikaia .
The north section will be held in Thessaloniki from 5th to 10th of October at hotel Porto Palace .Another 2 teams will get the ticket for the F4 .
In total 14 teams will be demoted to the lower league and 20 will remain on the high league for year 2022.
The 4th and extremely powerful Sharjah Masters closed tournament started in UAE .
The organizer is GM Stratos Grivas , from our club two players are participating ,GM Mastrovasilis D (2615) and IM Zawadzka Jolanta
Both players started well ,the pairings of the 3rd round you can see on
Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com – 4th Sharjah Masters ICC – 2021
Finally the live streaming is manned by GM Papaioannou Ioannis
30th OPEN Chess International Tournament – Kavala 2021 (chesskavala.gr)
Almost 300 players participated in Kavala’s chess open in tree groups . Players of our club were quite successful .
On the first group GM Mastrovasilis A finished 5th with 6.5/9
and Tsarsitalidis Christos with 4/9 +113
On second group Skodras K +163 with 6/9
On third group Trivella M won the event with 8/9
Our elite ESTH players polish IM Zawadzka Jolanta and GMs Mastrovasilis Dimitrios and Athanasios organized a series of chess events ( simultaneous exhibitions ,handicap etc) on west Lesvos ,villages of Kalloni ,Petra and Mithimna with the association of Aristotelis chess club the municipality and hospitable locals ,hotels Kalloni Bay and Malemi .
We thank them all for the hospitality and hope to organize more events in the future to come !
watch the events on the links download :
https://www.facebook.com/itvpetra/posts/3034062686839804
GM tourn otb is taking place now in Paris France, the results after 4 rounds are :
| Rank | Name | Score | Rating |
|---|
| 1 |
David, Alberto |
3/4 | 2527 |
| 2 |
Kevlishvili, Robby |
3/4 | 2499 |
| 3 |
Fedorchuk, Sergey A. |
2½/4 | 2616 |
| 4 |
Dardha, Daniel |
2½/3 | 2503 |
| 5 |
Feller, Sebastien |
2/3 | 2568 |
| 6 |
Vlachos, Anatole |
2/4 | 2439 |
| 7 |
Bellahcene,Bilel |
1½/4 | 2499 |
| 8 |
Milliet, Sophie |
1/4 | 2407 |
| 9 |
Msellek, Ilyass |
1/4 | 2334 |
| 10 |
Travadon, Loic |
½/4 | 2415 |
To achieve a GM norm players need 6/9
Our club player Vlachos Anatol will seek to achieve his 2nd GM norm
The young Greek team finished 4th
| Rk. | Mannschaft | 1.Rd | 2.Rd | 3.Rd | 4.Rd | 5.Rd | 6.Rd | 7.Rd | 8.Rd | 9.Rd | 10.Rd | 11.Rd | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | |
| 1 | Québec | 22b4 | 7w4 | 6b2½ | 2w3 | 4w2½ | 3b2½ | 5b1½ | 18w2½ | 21w3 | 20b2½ | 9b2½ | 20 | 30,5 | 0 | |
| 2 | France | 16w3½ | 8b3 | 18w3½ | 1b1 | 6w3 | 4b2½ | 3w2 | 5b3 | 20w2½ | 12b4 | 11b2½ | 19 | 30,5 | 0 | |
| 3 | Monaco | 23w4 | 12b4 | 5w2½ | 4b1 | 21w4 | 1w1½ | 2b2 | 8b3 | 6w3½ | 10w4 | 18b3½ | 17 | 33,0 | 0 | |
| 4 | Grece | 20b4 | 9w3 | 7b4 | 3w3 | 1b1½ | 2w1½ | 10b3 | 11w3 | 5w3 | 18b3 | 8w2 | 17 | 31,0 | 0 | |
| 5 | Belgique – FRBE | 24b4 | 10w4 | 3b1½ | 11w2 | 9b3½ | 6b2½ | 1w2½ | 2w1 | 4b1 | 16b4 | 20w3 | 15 | 29,0 | 0 |
| 4. Grece (RtgAvg:2363, Captain: Ioannis Nikolaidis / TB1: 17 / TB2: 31) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Bo. | Name | Rtg | FED | FideID | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Pts. | Games | RtgAvg | |
| 1 | FM | Krallis Christos | 2442 | GRE | 4298896 | 0 | 0 | ½ | + | 1 | 2,5 | 5 | 2314 | ||||||
| 2 | IM | Ioannidis Evgenios | 2411 | GRE | 4229274 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7,5 | 11 | 2280 |
| 3 | FM | Trimitzios Petros | 2362 | GRE | 25808796 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | + | 1 | 9,0 | 11 | 2102 |
| 4 | FM | Avramidou Anastasia | 2238 | GRE | 4239873 | 1 | 1 | 1 | + | 0 | 4,0 | 5 | 1312 | ||||||
| 5 | IM | Tsolakidou Stavroula | 2379 | GRE | 4264312 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4,0 | 6 | 2237 | |||||
| 6 | Mitsis Georgios | 2355 | GRE | 4295676 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4,0 | 6 | 1973 | ||||||
Ioannidis Evgenios was the winner of the preliminary hybrid event that took place in Galaxias Thessaloniki a few days ago .
The winner gets a golden ticket for the World Cup that will be organized in Sochi Rusia at 10th of July.
The game that decided the winner is analysed later on.
The second Greek with a golden ticket is Tsolakidou S and from ESTH Zawadzka Jolanta .Good luck to all of them !
| 1 | IM | Ioannidis Evgenios | GRE | * | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | 4,5 | 0,0 | 3 | 12,00 | 2,0 |
| 2 | GM | Mastrovasilis Dimitrios | GRE | 0 | * | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 3,5 | 1,5 | 2 | 9,00 | 1,5 |
| 3 | Mitsis Georgios | GRE | ½ | ½ | * | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 3,5 | 1,0 | 1 | 9,50 | 1,5 | |
| 4 | IM | Theodorou Nikolas | GRE | ½ | 0 | ½ | * | ½ | 1 | 1 | 3,5 | 0,5 | 2 | 8,75 | 1,0 |
| 5 | GM | Halkias Stelios | GRE | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | * | ½ | ½ | 2,5 | 0,0 | 0 | 7,00 | 1,5 |
| 6 | IM | Kourkoulos-Arditis Stamatis | GRE | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | * | 0 | 2,0 | 0,0 | 0 | 7,00 | 1,5 |
| 7 | FM | Krallis Christos | GRE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 1 | * | 1,5 | 0,0 | 1 | 3,25 | 0,0
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The Chess Polish Championships of 2021 were organized from 28.04 to 08.05 .The majority of the elite Polish players participated and fought otb featuring great overall conditions and prizes !
Our Zawadzka Jolanta(member of ESTH) was leading the event with a game to finish but unfortunately lost the critical last round to finish second behind Kulon who grabbed the chance.
In the men section we had instead of round robin system ,a knock out system in which Wojtaszek R. ( also member of ESTH) prevailed !
| Surname, Name | Rating | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Kulon, Klaudia | 2347 | 6.0 |
| 2. | Zawadzka, Jolanta | 2399 | 5.5 |
| 3. | Cyfka, Karina | 2415 | 5.5 |
| 4. | Majdan, Joanna | 2325 | 5.5 |
| 5. | Rajlich, Iweta | 2394 | 5.0 |
Congratulations to both of our players !
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