2ο  RAPID MEMORIAL GAVRIIL MASTROVASILIS 2025

22 – 23 Νovember 2025 | Hotel Perinthos, 12^ο km , Thessaloniki-Edessa

On Sunday the 23rd of November, the 2nd rpd Memorial Mastrovasilis Gavriil was successfuly concluded, many participants all around Greece attended and even a few from abroad! The young participants had the chance to face members of the Greek National team and strong GMs and even learn a few things about the importance of BLS from  Eleni Tsoni, president of club Agapi Vasiliki Komnou whom we thank for her support.

We would like to thank our Golden Sponsors:

Real estate development company «ΣΩΚΡΑΤΗΣ ΠΑΝΑΓΙΩΤΙΔΗΣ ΑΝΑΠΤΥΞΕΙΣ ΑΚΙΝΗΤΩΝ Α.Ε», μέλος του ΟΜΙΛΟΥ PANAGIOTIDIS HOLDINGS and Food company and snacks «OHONOS SNACK»

Also our sponsor:

THEODORIDIS TRUCKS O.E

The tournament is organised in memory of Mastrovasilis Gavriil who for 30 and more years inspired athletic ideals and cultivated chess at every level.

The event was under the support of:

Σκακιστικός Όμιλο Ιωνίας Θεσσαλονίκης, τον σύλλογο ‘’Αγάπη’’ Βασιλικής Κόμνου, τους Σκακιστικούς Συλλόγους Τριανδρίας Θεσσαλονίκης, τον Σκακιστικό Όμιλο Δράμας & την Ένωση Σκακιστών Δράμας, το Σκακιστικό Όμιλο Κιλκίς, τον Σκακιστικό Όμιλο Σ.Ο Σ.Α.Χ, τον Σύλλογο Τεχνικών Υπαλλήλων Ελλάδος & την Ομοσπονδία Συλλόγων Εργαζομένων Τεχνικών Επιχειρήσεων Ελλάδος.

Many thanks to our media sponsor voria.gr

Many thanks to   Hotel Perinthos.

We would also like to thank  Gerontopoulos Makis president of Club Ionia Thessaloniki for his help and contribution, our arbiter’s team, especially  Emmanouilidis Kostas and Ntountaniotis Dimitris for their precious help, our live coverage team: Bousios Christos,Iordanis Kougioumtzis, Mavroudis Konstantinidis .  Many thanks goes to legendary Anna Maria Botsari and Andreas Stoimenidis for their crusial support.

We would like to thank all participants for their support and interest and we hope to establish this event in the future to come.

Photos on our official site: mat-chess.gr

Many thanks to Nicolas Sphikas for his excellent painting named -ippomahia and Achilleas Spyrliadis for preparing the poster.

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The KCF ( Kasparov Chess Foundation) is launching soon a new and high quality ambitious chess course !

Starting on January and ending on June 2024 the four (4)  level online chess courses from elit experienced trainers include

• Digital learning materials
• KCF Certified Excellence
• Bonus Special guest interviews with chess stars

Kasparov’s chess academy combines experience &high quality and gives the opportunity to every chess lover to explore a great journey to knowledge and self improvence !

For more info contact the head of the project : GM &SFT Mikhalchisin A or member of the project GM Mastrovasilis Athanasios (subscribe as for example : George Papadopoulos                    ( Athanasios-referring to myself) and of course the official site :

Home – Kasparov Chess Foundation Academy (kcfacademy.org)

Good luck to the KCF project

GM Mastrovasilis Athanasios

He sadly inform all interested players that the closed  IM memorial will be cancelled due to lack of interest within the announced deadline .

We hope to organise it in the near future .

The organisers

Family Mastrovasilis and Club AMO Galaxias

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Baku is hosting the prestigious World Cup 2023 Chess event starting tomorrow 30th of July !

The tournament under FIDE’s aegis  is the most important of the year granding qualification to the winners of both sections to the candidates  and big prizes ,1,9m $ to men and 700.00$ to women ! Elit players are participating, Carlsen Caruana Nakamura Grischuk  Ju Wenjun  Kosteniuk Muzuchuk , strong support from elit players led FIDE granting wild card to legendary V Ivanchuk  surpassing all the problems due to the war .

206 players at the open section and 103 women in total participating ,among them GM Mastrovasilis D,elit Greek national member  who has qualified for the third time in his rich career .

photo GM Bartel

We wish him good luck ! Many exciting games coming up soon !

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6th Sharjah Masters 2023 about to begin! The strongest invitational open in chess history! Stay tuned.  ”GM Grivas ”

The strongest ever elite invitational is about to start at Sharjar UAE, 48 players over 2600 elo and in total 77 players over 2500 !

https://chess-results.com/tnr724974.aspx?lan=1&art=0&flag=30

Good luck to the Greek GMs Dimitrios Mastrovasilis and Theodorou Nikolaos as well to Zawadzka Jolanta who participates in the challengers section !

https://chess-results.com/tnr724980.aspx?lan=1&art=0&flag=30

Finally there is a 3rd section for talanted players

https://chess-results.com/tnr724981.aspx?lan=1&art=0&flag=30

Good luck to GM Grivas E who is organising the event !

Stratos is working abroad for many years (Turkey ,UAE)  and is a renowned and successful trainer ,in 1998 at Elista Olympiad he won the silver medal on the 3rd board of the Greek National team !