Four players heading equal into the last round of ICT Acropolis

Article by GM Efstratios Grivas

The draw between the two leaders, the Bosnian Borki Predojevic and the Greek Ioannis Papaioannou, allowed Atanas Kolev (Bulgaria) and Hristos Banikas (Greece) who won their games, to join the leading pack. So, before the last 9th round, these four players are sharing first place with 6 points out of 8 games.

There are followed by a group of 8 players with half point less (5,5/8): Sergei Azarov (Belarus), Eduardas Rosentalis (Lithuania), Oleg Romanishin (Ukraine), Vladimir Belov (Russia), Abhijeet Gupta (India), Nidjat Mamedov (Azerbaijan), Yuri Yakovich (Russia) and Alberto David (Luxembourg). One of these 12 players will be the winner of the 24th ICT Acropolis 2009. The last round will begin tomorrow (18.08.2009) at 14:30 and the event will end with the Closing Ceremony, scheduled for 21:00.

This year's Acropolis ICT is a co-organisation of the Greek Chess Federation and the Chalkida Chess Academy "Palamedes of Evia", sponsored by the Greek Ministry of Tourism and the Greek National Tourism Organisation (EOT), the Greek Ministry of Culture, the Greek General Secretariat of Sports, the Region of Attica, the Region of Sterea Ellada, the Prefecture of Evia, the Chalkida Municipality, the TEDK N. Evias, the Football Games Prognosis Organisation (OPAP), the Chalkida Sports Organisation and the "Chalkis" AVEE.

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Round 7 report

Round 8 top results:

GM Predojevic Borki ½ - ½ GM Papaioannou Ioannis
GM David Alberto ½ - ½ GM Azarov Sergei
GM Belov Vladimir ½ - ½ GM Gupta Abhijeet
GM Tukhaev Adam 0 - 1 GM Banikas Hristos
GM Romanishin Oleg ½ - ½ GM Yakovich Yuri
GM Kolev Atanas 1 - 0 GM Mastrovasilis Athanasios
GM Halkias Stelios ½ - ½ GM Koneru Humpy
GM Mamedov Nidjat 1 - 0 IM Kapnisis Spyridon
GM Gelashvili Tamaz ½ - ½ GM Stefanova Antoaneta
GM Rozentalis Eduardas 1 - 0 FM Reshetnikov Alexey
GM Georgiev Vladimir ½ - ½ GM Mastrovasilis Dimitrios
GM Gurevich Mikhail 1 - 0 IM Harika Dronavalli
IM Georgiadis Ioannis ½ - ½ GM Svetushkin Dmitry
IM Muzychuk Anna ½ - ½ FM Yilmaz Mustafa
GM Aroshidze Levan ½ - ½ IM Foisor Cristina-Adela
IM Ris Robert ½ - ½ GM Dzagnidze Nana
GM Nikolaidis Ioannis 1 - 0 WGM Zawadzka Jolanta
GM Chirila Ioan-Cristian 1 - 0 WGM Charkhalashvili Inga
IM Maric Alisa 0 - 1 IM Danielian Elina

Round 9 top pairings:

GM Banikas Hristos 6 - 6 GM Predojevic Borki
GM Papaioannou Ioannis 6 - 6 GM Kolev Atanas
GM Azarov Sergei 5½ - 5½ GM Rozentalis Eduardas
GM Romanishin Oleg 5½ - 5½ GM Belov Vladimir
GM Gupta Abhijeet 5½ - 5½ GM Mamedov Nidjat
GM Yakovich Yuri 5½ - 5½ GM David Alberto
GM Koneru Humpy 5 - 5 GM Georgiev Vladimir
GM Mastrovasilis Athanasios 5 - 5 GM Gurevich Mikhail
IM Melia Salome 5 - 5 GM Gelashvili Tamaz
GM Mastrovasilis Dimitrios 5 - 5 GM Nikolaidis Ioannis
IM Danielian Elina 5 - 5 GM Halkias Stelios
GM Stefanova Antoaneta 5 - 5 GM Chirila Ioan-Cristian
IM Managadze Nikoloz 5 - 5 GM Tukhaev Adam
GM Smirin Ilia 4½ - 5 IM Dembo Yelena

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