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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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This photo is very funny because is like a hairball playing chess. Hairball against Pashikian Arman that almost is not visible. The player that GM Pashikian Arman won is Pambalos Panayotis and actually I am envy about his hair.
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This photo is one of my favourites that I took of Abhijeet because he has this BIG smile. Nobody really knows if feels too happy next to these beautiful girls or because of the world championship . The funny thing … Continue reading
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There some players that from the way that they are moving you can say that they are like animals. This summer I met Andrianna Nikolova and I saw a tiger over the board…One of the kindest,cool kids in Greece is … Continue reading
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These days I am arbiter in my region’s International Tournament. The tournament “Honour to National Resistance” is one of the biggest Greek tournaments. Everybody when listen about Greece is thinking about sea. So I decide to help my Bulgarian friends … Continue reading
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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!
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When I started this photoblog I haven’t in mind that maybe I will have photos from other countries but finally before 2 months I have received an invitation to be arbiter to Turkey. For all the members of organization (organizers,arbiters,help … Continue reading