4 way tie for the lead at Acropolis

Round 8 top board results:

Bo. Surname/Name Result Surname/Name

1 Predojevic Borki ½ – ½ Papaioannou Ioannis
2 David Alberto ½ – ½ Azarov Sergei
3 Belov Vladimir ½ – ½ Gupta Abhijeet
4 Tukhaev Adam 0 – 1 Banikas Hristos
5 Romanishin Oleg M ½ – ½ Yakovich Yuri
6 Kolev Atanas 1 – 0 Mastrovasilis Athanasios
7 Halkias Stelios ½ – ½ Koneru Humpy
8 Mamedov Nidjat 1 – 0 Kapnisis Spyridon
9 Gelashvili Tamaz ½ – ½ Stefanova Antoaneta
10 Rozentalis Eduardas 1 – 0 Reshetnikov Alexey
11 Georgiev Vladimir ½ – ½ Mastrovasilis Dimitrios
12 Gurevich Mikhail 1 – 0 Harika Dronavalli
13 Georgiadis Ioannis ½ – ½ Svetushkin Dmitry
14 Muzychuk Anna ½ – ½ Yilmaz Mustafa
15 Aroshidze Levan ½ – ½ Foisor Cristina-Adela
16 Ris Robert ½ – ½ Dzagnidze Nana
17 Nikolaidis Ioannis 1 – 0 Zawadzka Jolanta
18 Chirila Ioan-Cristian 1 – 0 Charkhalashvili Inga
19 Maric Alisa 0 – 1 Danielian Elina
20 Dembo Yelena 1 – 0 Asik Josip

PRESS RELEASE – ROUND 8

The draw in-between the two leaders, the Bosnian Borki Predojevic and the Greek Ioannis Papaioannou, allowed Atanas Kolev (Bulgaria) and Hristos Banikas (Greece) that won their games, to join the top spots. So, before the last 9th round, these four players are joined first 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 those 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.

Press Officer
GM Efstratios Grivas

Round 9 top board pairings:

Bo. Surname/Name P Result P Surname/Name

1 Banikas Hristos 6 6 Predojevic Borki
2 Papaioannou Ioannis 6 6 Kolev Atanas
3 Azarov Sergei 5½ 5½ Rozentalis Eduardas
4 Romanishin Oleg M 5½ 5½ Belov Vladimir
5 Gupta Abhijeet 5½ 5½ Mamedov Nidjat
6 Yakovich Yuri 5½ 5½ David Alberto
7 Koneru Humpy 5 5 Georgiev Vladimir
8 Mastrovasilis Athanasios 5 5 Gurevich Mikhail
9 Melia Salome 5 5 Gelashvili Tamaz
10 Mastrovasilis Dimitrios 5 5 Nikolaidis Ioannis
11 Danielian Elina 5 5 Halkias Stelios
12 Stefanova Antoaneta 5 5 Chirila Ioan-Cristian
13 Managadze Nikoloz 5 5 Tukhaev Adam
14 Smirin Ilia 4½ 5 Dembo Yelena