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Round 4: Topalov and Dominguez win, seven players share the lead |
 Veselin Topalov and Leinier Dominguez won their games in the 4th round of the Thessaloniki Grand Prix to catch the other five players in the shared lead.
The remaining games were drawn, but not without fight. Morozevich and Nakamura played the spectacular game in Naidorf Sicilian. Caruana pressed for a long time but Kasimdzhanov was able to hold on to a draw.
Kamsky and Ponomariov had a fairly even position until the American made a mistake. However, the winning sequence was visible only to the computer eyes and the game ended in a draw.
Results, pairings, standings and photo gallery are updated.
Download the 4th round report in Greek (PDF).
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Round 3: Dominguez defeats Ivanchuk |
 Cuban Grandmaster Leinier Dominguez improved his ranking after defeating Vassily Ivanchuk in the third round of the Thessaloniki Grand Prix.
Ivanchuk lost on time failing to execute the last 40th move. Dominguez was ready to repeat the moves but there was no time to claim a draw. Read more below.
The remaining games were drawn and five players continue to share the lead.
Results, pairings, standings and photo gallery are updated.
Download the 3rd round report in Greek (PDF).
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Round 2: More decisive games, five players in the lead |
 The second round of the FIDE Grand Prix tournament in Thessaloniki produced more decisive results and now we have as many as five players sharing the lead with 1,5 points each.
Alexander Morozevich, Fabiano Caruana and Alexander Grischuk took advantage of the white pieces and signed important victories. The other three games were drawn.
Hikaru Nakamura, arriving directly from Norway Chess tournament, has a difficult start with two losses in two consecutive games with black pieces.
Results, pairings, standings and photo gallery are updated.
Download the 2nd round report in Greek (PDF).
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 Don't miss the daily live commentary of GM Stelios Halkias (or GM Ioannis Papaioannou) and FM Sotiris Logothetis, starting every day at 2pm!
http://thessaloniki2013.fide.com/live/video/index.html.
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Round 1: Svidler, Kamsky and Kasimdzhanov Win |
 The first round of the fourth stage of FIDE Grand Prix tournament in Thessaloniki got under way on 22nd May, with the Greek-Russian businessman Ivan Savvidis, main sponsor of the event, making the first symbolic move in the game Kamsky - Dominguez.
After playing 1.e2-e4, Savvidis told Kamsky "now you have no right to lose this game". The American champion lived up to the expectations and went on to defeat Leinier Dominguez.
To complete the fortunate day for Mr Savvidis, his club PAOK Saloniki beat Asteras Tripolis 2-1 in the Greek Football Super-Liga play-off.
Peter Svidler and Rustam Kasimdzhanov also started with victories, while the other three games were drawn. Results, pairings, standings and photo gallery are updated.
Download the 1st round report in Greek (PDF).
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