Predojevic, Papaioannou lead Acropolis

Round 7 top 15 board results:

Bo. Surname/Name Result Surname/Name

1 Stefanova Antoaneta 0 – 1 Predojevic Borki
2 Banikas Hristos ½ – ½ Belov Vladimir
3 Papaioannou Ioannis 1 – 0 Reshetnikov Alexey
4 Yakovich Yuri ½ – ½ Tukhaev Adam
5 Mastrovasilis Athanasios ½ – ½ David Alberto
6 Azarov Sergei 1 – 0 Dzagnidze Nana
7 Gurevich Mikhail 0 – 1 Gupta Abhijeet
8 Svetushkin Dmitry 0 – 1 Romanishin Oleg M
9 Kapnisis Spyridon ½ – ½ Gelashvili Tamaz
10 Harika Dronavalli ½ – ½ Rozentalis Eduardas
11 Zawadzka Jolanta 0 – 1 Kolev Atanas
12 Mastrovasilis Dimitrios ½ – ½ Halkias Stelios
13 Koneru Humpy 1 – 0 Georgiadis Ioannis
14 Can Emre 0 – 1 Mamedov Nidjat
15 Muzychuk Anna ½ – ½ Ris Robert

PRESS RELEASE – ROUND 7

The Bosnian Borki Predojevic and the Greek Ioannis Papaioannou stayed equal first on the top of the 24th ICT Acropolis 2009, after the 7th round, with 5,5 points out of 7 games. The two players were the only from the group of the 10 players that were equal first on the previous round that won their game. Their 8th round direct encounter is expected with great interest as it might give the winner of the tournament.

Of course, the two leaders are followed by a group of 10 players with half point less (5/7): Alberto David (Luxembourg), Sergei Azarov (Belarus), Vladimir Belov (Russia), Abhijeet Gupta (India), Adam Tukhaev (Ukraine), Oleg Romanishin (Ukraine), Yuri Yakovich (Russia), Atanas Kolev (Bulgaria) and the Greeks Hristos Banikas and Athanasios Mastrovasilis. They all have a serious hope to climb on the first position in the two remaining, critical rounds.

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 8 top board pairings:

Bo. Surname/Name P Result P Surname/Name

1 Predojevic Borki 5½ 5½ Papaioannou Ioannis

2 David Alberto 5 5 Azarov Sergei
3 Belov Vladimir 5 5 Gupta Abhijeet
4 Tukhaev Adam 5 5 Banikas Hristos
5 Romanishin Oleg M 5 5 Yakovich Yuri
6 Kolev Atanas 5 5 Mastrovasilis Athanasios