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The BIGGEST smile of a champion

This photo is one of my favourites that I took of Abhijeet because he has this BIG smile. Nobody really knows if feels too happy next to these beautiful girls or because of the world championship :P. The funny thing is the discussions that came after publishing this photo to facebook and vkontakte...
So the big smile maybe became because of Marie and Nazi

A tiger over her little mouse

There some players that from the way that they are moving you can say that they are like animals. This summer I met Andrianna Nikolova and I saw a tiger over the board...
One of the kindest,cool kids in Greece is the younger Grigoriadis. Michalis Grigoriadis is small boy that looks like a mouse that comes takes the cheese and leaves with nobody notice him. So at this photo I saw a big cat to goes over the little mouse... And finally she caught it.

Greek chess tournament

These days I am arbiter in my region's International Tournament. The tournament "Honour to National Resistance" is one of the biggest Greek tournaments. Everybody when listen about Greece is thinking about sea. So I decide to help my Bulgarian friends to find a nice beach near to their hotel that is in centre of Athens. So we went by bus to Vouliagmeni (20 km away from centre) and swim. I think this photo with Enchev Ivalho and Rusev Krasimir is the best advertisement for our tournament.I hope next year I can invite more friends to play in our place.

The indian chess top

Abhijeet Gupta with Dronavalli Harika
Originally uploaded by karpidis

If the top of chess world was a place in the world that would be actually in India. Vishvanathan Anand was the first and now Abhijeet Gupta and Dronavalli Harika shows that they will follow up! :)

Actually from Turkey

When I started this photoblog I haven't in mind that maybe I will have photos from other countries but finally before 2 months I have received an invitation to be arbiter to Turkey. For all the members of organization (organizers,arbiters,help desk,internet team) I have only good things to say so I want to thank people we co-operated well and post this photo as memory of good time.

The winning team Greek of chess cup 2008

After 3 draws finally Union of chess players of Salonica won the the Greek chess team cup for 2008 over Kydon from Chania...There was not a ceremony as long after 9 hour of games it was difficult to wait so this is the only photo from the winners. I hope next time not be arbiter in games like this...

At the photo you can see Zakaryan D, Mastrovasilis Dimitris,Iotov Valentin and Thanos Mastrovasilis