Alexander the Great Chess Open starts in Thessaloniki, Greece

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Hi everyone,

The Thessaloniki International Chess Open 'Alexander the Great' started today (Monday). There is a follow-up chess event clubbed with this - the Sofia's "St. George" Chess tournament (May 4th - May 9th) for a local Grand Prix Chess cycle. 

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The overall winner of the two competitions will receive free accommodation in the 2011 Bansko Grand Chess Open(the top winter open event, December 11-18), while the second and third places receive free accommodation for Thessaloniki International Open. Winners are decided by calculations of points in each tournament. Tiebreak will be decided by blitz games after the end of the second tournament.

You can access the official website for more details. Meanwhile, here are the top-10 in the line-ups.

Thessaloniki Chess Open 2011 - A

1 GM Mastrovasilis Athanasios GRE 2547
2 GM Nikolaidis Ioannis GRE 2544
3 GM Antic Dejan SRB 2488
4 IM Ivanov Jordan BUL 2465
5 IM Arnaudov G Petar BUL 2453
6 GM Bagaturov Giorgi GEO 2450
7 GM Georgiev Krum BUL 2423
8 IM Mladenov Plamen BUL 2379
9 FM Malikentzos Sotirios GRE 2343
10 FM Vujic Mihailo SRB 2330

Thessaloniki Chess Open 2011 - B

1 Serefidou Despina GRE 1689
2 Batzolis Georgios GRE 1636
3 Avramidou Anastasia GRE 1630
4 Hatzigrigoriou Georgios GRE 1602
5 Tetepoulidis Ioannis GRE 1590
6 Tsiamis Rafail GRE 1446
7 Samakas Stavros GRE 1436
8 Pavlidis Pavlos GRE 1362
9 Paterakis Emmanouil GRE 1334
10 Samakas Anastasios GRE 1040

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