Acropolis International chess tournament
The Acropolis International was a chess tournament held in Athens. The longest running international chess tournament in Greece, the first event, an international invitation tournament was won by Luděk Pachman in 1968.
The next event was not held until 1977, but subsequently it has been organized on a fairly regular basis by the , including sometimes another minor event for men and a tournament for women, too.
The 2007 tournament[1] was part of the Association of Chess Professionals Tour (ACP Tour). The 2009 open tournament took place in Chalkida on the island of Euboea[2] and was won by Borki Predojević on tie-break.[3] It turned out to be the last one.
The inaugural Acropolis was played as a round robin (all-play-all), then the format varied across the series, switching several times between closed and open tournaments played in Swiss system, totaling 24 editions.
Note: In the following list of the winners at Acropolis ICT, only the best player on tie-break is indicated if there were shared first places.
Winners[]
Acropolis International in Athens # Year Winner 1 1968 Luděk Pachman (Czechoslovakia) 2 1977 (Romania) 3 1978 Bela Soos (West Germany) 4 1979 (Romania) 5 1980 (Yugoslavia) 6 1982 Nikolaos Skalkotas (Greece) 7 1983 Nikola Padevsky (Bulgaria) 8 1984 (Yugoslavia) 9 1985 (Romania) 10 1986 Efstratios Grivas (Greece) 11 1987 Evgeni Vasiukov (Soviet Union) 12 1988 Vasilios Kotronias (Greece) 13 1989 Petar Velikov (Bulgaria) 14 1991 Efstratios Grivas (Greece) 15 1992 Rainer Knaak (Germany) 16 1993 Hannes Stefansson (Iceland) 17 1997 Tamaz Gelashvili (Georgia) 18 2003 Vassilios Kotronias (Cyprus) 19 2004 (Greece) 20 2005 Vugar Gashimov (Azerbaijan) 21 2006 Tamaz Gelashvili (Georgia) 22 2007 Ilya Smirin (Israel)[1] 23 2008 Ilya Smirin (Israel)[4] 24 2009 Borki Predojević (Bosnia and Herzegovina)[5]
References[]
- ^ a b "Ilya Smirin wins Acropolis 2007", ChessBase News, 26 August 2007, retrieved 2008-04-10
- ^ "Acropolis 2009 - English version".
- ^ http://tournaments.chessdom.com/acropolis-2009/round-9-report[dead link]
- ^ "Acropolis 2008: Smirin wins ahead of Parligras on tiebreak". ChessBase News. 26 August 2008. Retrieved 2015-03-10.
- ^ "Predojevic ganó el Abierto Acropolis 2009". ChessBase News (in Spanish). 20 August 2009. Retrieved 2015-03-10.
External links[]
- Crowther, Mark (18 August 2008), THE WEEK IN CHESS 719, London Chess Center, retrieved 2008-08-22
- Chess competitions
- Chess in Greece
- Annual sports competitions in Athens
- 1968 establishments in Greece
- Recurring sporting events established in 1968
- 2009 disestablishments in Greece
- Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2009