Tag Archives: chess photos

The new young greek champions

The Greek champions under 20 and under 18 © 2009 karpidis. All rights reserved.

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.

White pieces by Nikon D60

The white army © 2008 karpidis. All rights reserved.

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 →

Communistic idols over the board

Ernesto Inarkiev © 2008 karpidis. All rights reserved.

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.

The indian chess top

Abhijeet Gupta with Dronavalli Harika © 2008 karpidis. All rights reserved.

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!

How much does it cost?

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 →

Topalov is waiting for Kamsky

Veselin was looking forward to learn who would be his opponent. I think that he would be happy that Kamsky won the world cup technorati tags:Topalov, world cup, Kamsky Blogged with Flock