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The new Mediterranean Champion is the Greek International Master Ioannis Georgiadis. He achieved the second GM norm so very soon we will have a new Greek Grandmaster. Congratulation Yanni!
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2-8 January in Greece we had the final section of Greek championship for young men, women and boys girls <=18. So I present you our four new champions. Filippas Sebastien,Katerina Pavlidou,Zoi Iordanidou (difficult to capture not laughing) and Yorgos Kanakaris.
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Have you ever had a chess nightmare?
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At Greek Championship for boys under 20 years old play many boys that they are still in school. Some of them they show that they like it so much and are posing at photos with a big smile. After this … Continue reading
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I had bought new camera. A Nikon D60. I wanted to check the wide angle lens so I made this shot of white pieces. I like it but I cannot say the same thing about my shots on black pieces. … Continue reading
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I asked yesterday the t-shirt of Ivan Cheparinov. He agreed to bring it today at the beginning of the round. I was very happy when at the start was looking for me and he gave me the t-shirt. It is … Continue reading
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I had already mentioned that Ernesto plays every time with Che on his hand. But yesterday except him I saw also Sargissian was wearing a t-shirt with Lenin.
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Finally I see that almost all the players used the same uniforms. I like it much. Over here is Kleanthis Vafiadis that played for AMO GALAXIAS at first round and made a draw against strong GMLanda Konstantin.
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Athos Palace has wifi area only at reception so everybody goes there to connect to internet. How many GMs can you recognize?
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If the top of chess world was a place in the world that would be actually in India. Vishvanathan Anand was the first and now Abhijeet Gupta and Dronavalli Harika shows that they will follow up!
This rook I bought it from a seller at Euro teams. When I asked him “How much does it cost?” He answered “free” When I listened free, I thought impossible… So I asked again “Free?” Again the answer was “Yes, … Continue reading