Creative commons-share alike Andreas Kontokanis
Usually when every year ends everybody makes some post with the best moments of the last year. So I decide it to post my most favourites shots of 2011. The most favourite male portrait is Nikolaidis Ioannis‘ portrait And the … Continue reading
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Antonis Pavlidis is the new Greek Chess Champion. Antonis is one of the most talented young greek players. He is only 18 years old but he already won his first Greek championship. He was the winner of the qualifying Greek … Continue reading
Creative commons-share alike Andreas Kontokanis
Last years Turkey in chess made in great progress. With Ali Nihat Yazici as president of Turkish chess federation, to make and some difficult decisions for the trainers of national teams finally in this European Team Championship had a good performance … Continue reading
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In chess world one of the most popular people is Anastasia Karlovich. She is not only a woman Grand Master but also almost in all tournaments the official chess photographer. Last year she took a photo of me that more than … Continue reading
Creative commons-share alike Andreas Kontokanis
Michael Adams won the Golden medal in the first board in European Team Chess Championship. Maybe England didn’t succeed alot but he managed to have the second greater performance of all the tournament and the best score in the 1st board.
Creative commons-share alike Andreas Kontokanis
In the last round Gustafsson Jan and Sargissian Gabriel played until the end to draw their game. When all other games had finished their position was a draw. But Sargissian Gabriel couldn’t agree to a draw. If he drew, Armenia … Continue reading
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Germany won the trophy of European Team chess championship, and it was a big surprise for most of us. Germany was an outsider as was and Greece in Euro 2004 (soccer). Arkadij Naiditsch, Georg Meier, Daniel Fridman, Jan Gustafsson, and Rainer Buhmann took … Continue reading
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In women section, european cup took it Russian team. Nadezhda Kosintseva, Tatiana Kosintseva, Valentina Gunina, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Natalia Pogonina and Yuri Dokhian as captain. On the photo is one of the rare times that the former trainer of Kasparov Yuri … Continue reading
Creative commons-share alike Andreas Kontokanis
Greek chess team in European chess team championship had some very good moments, winning England but finally finished at 20th position. On this photo we see that before the games Greek national team trainer, Vasilis Kotronias encourages players before the … Continue reading
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Teimour Radjabov on the first board of Azerbaijan in European Team Chess club maybe didn’t made a great tournament but he gave a great victory to his team by winning Peter Svidler and this way the finally took silver medal.
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In the last game of European team club cup women section Russia easily had won Austria but Nadezhda Kosintseva played until the end to draw. She was fighting until the end but no different result.
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The Grand master Natalia Pogonina won Golden Medal in Europeant team championship with the russian team and also the golden medal for being the 5th player in Russian Federation women team. It was first time I met her in a tournament … Continue reading