- 10 way tie for the lead at Acropolis

PRESS RELEASE – ROUND 6

The 6th round of the 24th ICT Acropolis 2009 complicated even more the fight for the top-position of the tournament. It’s now 10 chessplayers sharing the first position, the Borki Predojevic (Bosnia), Yuri Yakovich, Vladimir Belov and Alexey Reshetnikov (Russia), Adam Tukhaev (Ukraine), Alberto David (Luxembourg), Antoaneta Stefanova (Bulgaria) and the Greeks Ioannis Papaioannou, Hristos Banikas and Athanasios Mastrovasilis, with 4,5 points out of 6 games.

The top-seed and winner of the previous two ‘Acropolis’, the Israeli Ilia Smirin, is out of the battle for the first position as he lost for a second time in a row by Ex-World Women Champion the Bulgarian Antoaneta Stefanova. Of course, the last three rounds are enough to ‘show-up’ the winner, that might also come from the back of the players that follows with a half point less, with 4/6.

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.

Press Officer
GM Efstratios Grivas

Leaders after 6 rounds:

Rk.		Name	Typ	sex	FED	RtgI	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	GM	Belov Vladimir			RUS	2627	4,5	0,0	2503	16,5
2	FM	Reshetnikov Alexey			RUS	2408	4,5	0,0	2501	17,0
3	GM	Stefanova Antoaneta		f	BUL	2535	4,5	0,0	2494	16,5
4	GM	Predojevic Borki			BIH	2644	4,5	0,0	2493	17,5
5	GM	David Alberto			LUX	2565	4,5	0,0	2468	16,0
6	GM	Yakovich Yuri			RUS	2576	4,5	0,0	2467	17,5
7	GM	Banikas Hristos			GRE	2598	4,5	0,0	2439	16,5
8	GM	Papaioannou Ioannis			GRE	2624	4,5	0,0	2429	15,5
9	GM	Tukhaev Adam			UKR	2534	4,5	0,0	2424	16,5
10	GM	Mastrovasilis Athanasios			GRE	2503	4,5	0,0	2418	15,0
11	IM	Kapnisis Spyridon			GRE	2464	4,0	0,0	2533	16,0
12	GM	Halkias Stelios			GRE	2564	4,0	0,0	2519	16,0
13	GM	Azarov Sergei			BLR	2630	4,0	0,0	2508	16,0
14	GM	Rozentalis Eduardas			LTU	2588	4,0	0,0	2478	16,0
15	IM	Harika Dronavalli	U20	f	IND	2445	4,0	0,0	2461	14,5
16	GM	Mastrovasilis Dimitrios			GRE	2567	4,0	0,0	2442	15,5
17	GM	Gelashvili Tamaz			GEO	2605	4,0	0,0	2442	14,5
18	IM	Georgiadis Ioannis			GRE	2438	4,0	0,0	2440	13,5
19	GM	Gurevich Mikhail			TUR	2618	4,0	0,0	2423	14,5
20	GM	Svetushkin Dmitry			MDA	2607	4,0	0,0	2421	14,0
21	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	U20		IND	2565	4,0	0,0	2415	15,0
22	GM	Romanishin Oleg M			UKR	2503	4,0	0,0	2413	14,0
23	GM	Kolev Atanas			BUL	2569	4,0	0,0	2368	14,5
24	WGM	Zawadzka Jolanta		f	POL	2387	4,0	0,0	2358	13,0
25	GM	Dzagnidze Nana		f	GEO	2536	4,0	0,0	2312	13,0