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 Greek Chess Federation, 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 
Valentin Stoica (Romania)
3 1978 
Bela Soos (West Germany)
4 1979 Aurel Urzică (Romania)
5 1980 
Dusan Raikovic (Yugoslavia)
6 1982 
Nikolaos Skalkotas (Greece)
7 1983 
Nikola Padevsky (Bulgaria)
8 1984 Sasa Velickovic (Yugoslavia)
9 1985 Valentin Stoica (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 Stefánsson (Iceland)
17 1997 
Tamaz Gelashvili (Georgia)
18 2003 
Vassilios Kotronias (Cyprus)
19 2004 Athanasios Mastrovasilis (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".
- ^ "Chessdom - Borki Predojevic wins the 24th ICT Acropolis". tournaments.chessdom.com. Archived from the original on 2009-08-23.
- ^ "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
