The closing ceremony of the 4th stage of FIDE Grand Prix Series 2012-2013 took place in the Amphitryon hall of Makedonia Palace Hotel in Thessaloniki (Greece) on 3rd June.
The players and guests were addressed by the Tournament Director Theodoros Tsorbatzoglou, President of the Greek Chess Federation Georgios Makropoulos, representative of Greek government MP Kostantinos Gioulekas and FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.
Chief Arbiter Takis Nikolopoulos announced the standings and winners. Each player was greeted with a round of applause. Pictures are here.
Leinier Dominguez outplayed Veselin Topalov in the longest game of the day to overtake Gata Kamsky and claim a clear first place in the Thessaloniki Grand Prix. The Cuban finished the tournament with 8/11 points.
In the other key encounter Fabiano Caruana made a good favour for Dominguez by defeating the overnight leader Kamsky to finally catch him on the shared second place.
Hikaru Nakamura won against Peter Svidler to finish the tournament in good mood, while Vassily Ivanchuk scored his first victory in the game against Etienne Bacrot.
Kamsky defeats Morozevich, leads before the last round
The penultimate round of the Thessaloniki Grand Prix has set the stage for exciting final round on Monday 12:00 local time.
Gata Kamsky celebrated his birthday with a quick and convincing victory against Alexander Morozevich, who suffered fourth consecutive loss.
Leinier Dominguez survived Alexander Grischuk's assault to stay in the contention for the first place. Fabiano Caruana bounced back after yesterday's loss by defeating Veselin Topalov in a wild game.
Ruslan Ponomariov scored a nice victory against Etienne Bacrot.
The closing ceremony will be broadcasted live in the video section from Monday 19:00 local time.
Leinier Dominguez defeated Fabiano Caruana with black pieces to join Gata Kamsky in the shared first place with 6,5 points each. American champion was held to a draw by Etienne Bacrot.
Veselin Topalov scored against Alexander Morozevich who extended the losing row to three rounds. The other four games were drawn.
Caruana is third with 5,5 points, while Grischuk is fourth with 5 points.
On the second rest day of Thessaloniki Grand Prix the local chess clubs have organized an outdoor simul on Aristotelous Square, the main city square of Thessaloniki.
Grandmasters Ioannis Papaioannou (Grand Prix commentator) and Athanasios Mastrovasilis started the event against 50 opponents, but due to high interest of by-passers, finally 70 games were played.
Grand Prix participants were giving autographs and posed for pictures.
Leinier Dominguez outplayed Veselin Topalov in the longest game of the day to overtake Gata Kamsky and claim a clear first place in the Thessaloniki Grand Prix. The Cuban finished the tournament with 8/11 points.
The penultimate round of the Thessaloniki Grand Prix has set the stage for exciting final round on Monday 12:00 local time.
Leinier Dominguez defeated Fabiano Caruana with black pieces to join Gata Kamsky in the shared first place with 6,5 points each. American champion was held to a draw by Etienne Bacrot.