Au Montie!

Ωχ τι θέση είναι αυτή;
Originally uploaded by karpidis

This talented greek young player tries to find the best first move...

Fivitika 2007

KIF_4201
Originally uploaded by karpidis

A panoramic view that I had from the office. I think the place is perfect for organizing a tournament of very good players with attenders on the 1st floor...

Who are these beautiful women?

These beautiful women were watching for many hours the games... As arbiter I could attend only on games with 4 blue eyes behind me so I photographed them

15th tournament "Honour to national Resistance

The photos from chess tournament "Honour to national Resistance". This year was the 15th tournament in memory of the victims of nazi killed at 17 of August 1944 in Nikea. A city of workers that most of the victims were killed only because they were communists.The old name of Nikea is "Kokkinia" that in greek means reddish. The name was taken from the lake of blood of these victims. It is good to know and to not forget.

Closing ceremony of Acropolis

This year I wasn't arbiter at the best Greek tournament(I think they chose the very best of Greek arbiters,kidding of course ) so I went only at the closing ceremony to take pictures.
My pictures are not copyrighted but under Creative Commons License. That means you can use it but you MUST say your source. At the official page of Greek Chess Federation used some of them and made them copyrighted because they didn't want to give the source so they had my ugly name on the photos.

Goliath vs David

Nobody believe that small boy won the game... But it was just chess...Not a real fight...

Wait a minute to pose

KIF_1589, originally uploaded by andreaskontokanis.

Yes sure I will take you a picture without glasses but here you are much better :)