[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.12"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Mastrovasilis, Athanasios"]
[Black "Nikolaidis, Ioannis"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E47"]
[WhiteElo "2510"]
[BlackElo "2564"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "102"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 20,102,0,0,37,0,0,0,0,0,22,27,11,6,4,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,6,0,1,0,5,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3 c5 6. Nge2 cxd4 7. exd4 d5 8. cxd5 Qxd5 9. O-O Qh5 10. Bf4 Nc6 11. Qb3 {LiveBook: 11 Games} Bxc3 {E48: Nimzo-Indian: Rubinstein: 5 Bd3 d5 including 6 Ne2, but excluding 6 a3} 12. Qxc3 $146 ({Predecessor:} 12. bxc3 b6 13. Rfe1 Bb7 14. Bg3 Rac8 15. Rac1 Rfe8 16. Nf4 Qh6 17. h3 Nh5 18. Nxh5 Qxh5 19. Qb1 {½-½ (37) Jobava,B (2518)-Akopian,V (2656) Ubeda 2001}) 12... Nd5 13. Qd2 Nxf4 14. Qxf4 e5 15. dxe5 Qxe5 16. Qe4 {[%csl Gd3][%cal Re4h7] [#] The position is equal.} g6 17. Nc3 Be6 18. Rfe1 Rfd8 19. Rad1 Qxe4 20. Bxe4 Rxd1 21. Rxd1 Rc8 22. f3 Kf8 23. Bd5 Bxd5 24. Rxd5 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRN-KRN} Ke7 25. Kf2 b6 26. Rd2 Na5 27. Re2+ Kf8 28. g4 h6 29. h4 Nc4 30. Nd5 Rc5 31. Nf6 Kg7 32. Ne8+ Kf8 33. Nf6 Kg7 34. Ne8+ Kf8 35. b3 {Nf6 is the strong threat.} Ne5 36. Nf6 {Threatens to win with Rxe5!} Kg7 37. Ne8+ Kf8 38. Nf6 {aiming for Rxe5!} Kg7 39. g5 hxg5 40. hxg5 Nd3+ {[%mdl 64] [#] Discovered Attack} 41. Ke3 Nc1 42. Rg2 Ra5 43. Rc2 Nxa2 44. f4 {White wants to mate with Rc8.} Nb4 45. Rd2 Nc6 46. Rc2 Ne7 47. Ke4 Rb5 48. Rc7 Rb4+ 49. Ke5 Rb5+ 50. Ke4 Rb4+ 51. Ke5 Rb5+ {Accuracy: White = 65%, Black = 83%.} 1/2-1/2

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.12"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Grivas, Efstratios"]
[Black "Ioannidis, Evgenios"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A06"]
[WhiteElo "2424"]
[BlackElo "2382"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "85"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 24,85,-27,-27,-35,-66,-27,-19,0,-3,-13,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-25,-23,-30,-30,-30,-29,-30,-25,-29,-31,-26,-31,-40,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,10,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-8,0,-8,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. Nf3 d5 2. e3 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. d4 O-O 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 a6 8. O-O b5 {D37: Queen's Gambit Declined: 5 Bf4} (8... c5 9. Qe2 b5 10. Bb3 Bb7 11. Rd1 Nbd7 12. e4 b4 13. d5 bxc3 14. dxe6 fxe6 15. Ng5 Qb6 16. Bxe6+ Kh8 17. Bxd7 h6 18. Ne6 Rf7 19. bxc3 Bxe4 {1-0 (39) Cori Tello,J (2657)-Rambaldi,F (2574) Saint Louis 2017}) 9. Bd3 Bb7 10. Qe2 Nbd7 11. Rd1 c5 12. dxc5 Bxc5 13. Ng5 {LiveBook: 4 Games} Qc7 14. Nce4 Be7 $146 (14... h6 $5 {[%cal Rh6g5]} 15. Nxf6+ Nxf6 $17) ({Predecessor:} 14... Nxe4 15. Bxe4 Nf6 16. Bxb7 Qxb7 {½-½ (49) Smeby,O (1980)-Kolbak,J (2181) Drammen 2018}) 15. Bd2 h6 16. Rac1 Qb6 17. Nxf6+ Nxf6 18. Nf3 Ne4 19. Bxe4 Bxe4 20. Ne5 {Threatens to win with Nd7.} Rad8 21. Bc3 {[#] aiming for Nd7.} Rxd1+ 22. Qxd1 Qb7 23. Qg4 Bf5 24. Qg3 b4 25. Bd4 {[#] Hoping for Nc6.} f6 26. Nc6 $1 {[%cal Rc6e7]} e5 27. Qf3 Rc8 {White must now prevent ...Bf8.} 28. Nxe7+ {The position is equal.} Qxe7 29. Qd5+ Kh8 {[%cal Rc8c1]} 30. Rxc8+ Bxc8 31. Bc5 Qe6 32. e4 (32. Qa8 {seems wilder.} Kh7 33. b3 Qd7 34. h3 Bb7 35. Qa7) 32... Qxd5 33. exd5 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KB-KB} b3 34. axb3 Kg8 35. Kf1 Kf7 36. Ke2 Bb7 37. d6 Ke6 38. g3 h5 39. h4 Bc6 40. Kd3 Bd5 41. Kc3 Kd7 42. b4 Bc6 43. Kd3 {Accuracy: White = 70%, Black = 70%.} 1/2-1/2

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.12"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Gouloutis, Nikolaos"]
[Black "Kourkoulos-Arditis, Stamatis"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A48"]
[WhiteElo "2353"]
[BlackElo "2424"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 18,71,0,11,17,8,20,25,22,25,33,27,33,23,30,-4,-4,-6,-4,-3,0,0,0,0,31,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-8,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. b3 Bg7 4. Bb2 c5 (4... O-O 5. e3 d5 6. c4 c5 7. dxc5 Qa5+ 8. Nbd2 Qxc5 9. Rc1 Nc6 10. a3 a5 11. Be2 Rd8 12. O-O dxc4 13. Nd4 Nxd4 14. Bxd4 Qxa3 15. Nxc4 {0-1 (57) Nakamura,H (2769)-Mamedyarov,S (2808) Paris 2018}) 5. dxc5 Qa5+ 6. Nbd2 {A48: 1 d4 Nf6 2 Nf3 g6: Torre, London and Colle Systems} Qxc5 7. e3 O-O 8. c4 b6 9. Be2 Bb7 10. O-O {LiveBook: 6 Games} Qc7 11. Rc1 Nc6 12. Nb1 $146 ({Predecessor:} 12. Nd4 Rac8 13. Nxc6 Bxc6 {0-1 (76) Betaneli,A (2246)-Di Berardino,D (2525) Montevideo 2018}) 12... Rad8 13. Nc3 Qb8 14. Qd2 d5 15. cxd5 e6 {[%cal Rf6d5]} 16. Rfd1 {Threatens to win with d6.} Nxd5 17. Nxd5 Rxd5 18. Qc2 Nb4 19. Qb1 Bxb2 20. Qxb2 Rfd8 21. a3 (21. Rxd5 {feels hotter.} Nxd5 22. Ne5 f6 23. Ng4 e5 24. e4) 21... Rxd1+ {The position is equal.} 22. Rxd1 Rxd1+ 23. Bxd1 Nd5 24. Ne5 Qc7 25. Bf3 Nc3 26. Bxb7 {[#] And now Ng4 would win.} Qxe5 27. g3 Kf8 28. Ba6 Ke7 29. Bc4 Kf6 30. Qd2 Ne4 31. Qc2 Nd6 32. a4 a5 33. Bd3 Kg7 34. Qc6 Qc5 35. Qxc5 bxc5 36. Kf1 {Accuracy: White = 74%, Black = 65%.} 1/2-1/2

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.12"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Skaperdas, Kostantinos"]
[Black "Kanakaris, Georgios"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A43"]
[WhiteElo "2231"]
[BlackElo "2401"]
[Annotator "RC"]
[PlyCount "118"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[TimeControl "40/5400+30:1800+30"]

1. d4 {[%emt 0:00:00]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:02:11]} 2. Nf3 {[%emt 0:01:19]} c5 {[%emt 0:03:17]} 3. d5 {[%emt 0:04:19]} e6 {[%emt 0:00:18]} 4. Nc3 {[%emt 0:02:42]} exd5 {[%emt 0:11:28]} 5. Nxd5 {[%emt 0:00:16]} Nxd5 {[%emt 0:00:03]} 6. Qxd5 {[%emt 0:00:06]} Nc6 {[%emt 0:00:36]} 7. c3 {[%emt 0:17:33]} d6 {[%emt 0:07:10]} 8. Bg5 {[%emt 0:04:20]} Be6 {[%emt 0:18:12]} 9. Qxe6+ {[%emt 0:09:20]} fxe6 {[%emt 0:00:13]} 10. Bxd8 {[%emt 0:00:01]} Rxd8 {[%emt 0:00:07]} 11. e4 {[%emt 0:00:12]} Be7 {[%emt 0:01:11]} 12. Rd1 {[%emt 0:12:07]} a6 {[%emt 0:12:54]} 13. Bc4 {[%emt 0:16:40]} Kd7 {[%emt 0:09:28]} 14. a4 {[%emt 0:01:54]} Rhf8 {[%emt 0:00:57]} 15. O-O {[%emt 0:04:08]} g5 {[%emt 0:07:56]} 16. Ne1 {[%emt 0:06:45]} Ne5 {[%emt 0:03:56]} 17. Be2 {[%emt 0:00:48]} Bf6 {[%emt 0:04:33]} 18. Nd3 {[%emt 0:00:31]} Ke7 {[%emt 0:00:47]} 19. Nxe5 {[%emt 0:01:24]} Bxe5 {[%emt 0:00:04]} 20. g3 {[%emt 0:06:37]} Rb8 {[%emt 0:00:13]} 21. Ra1 {[%emt 0:03:09]} Rf7 {[%emt 0:03:48]} 22. Rfc1 {[%emt 0:05:32]} Rbf8 {[%emt 0:03:28]} 23. Rf1 {[%emt 0:00:01]} Rc8 {[%emt 0:01:43]} 24. Kg2 {[%emt 0:01:04]} Kd7 {[%emt 0:02:32]} 25. Rh1 {[%emt 0:00:34]} Rcf8 26. Raf1 Rg7 {[%emt 0:03:26]} 27. h3 {[%emt 0:01:25]} h6 {[%emt 0:00:25]} 28. Bh5 {[%emt 0:00:34]} Rgg8 {[%emt 0:01:17]} 29. Ra1 Rf6 {[%emt 0:00:08]} 30. Rhd1 {[%emt 0:00:41]} Kc6 {[%emt 0:00:32]} 31. a5 {[%emt 0:00:48]} Rgf8 {[%emt 0:01:07]} 32. Rd2 {[%emt 0:00:01]} b5 {[%emt 0:00:44]} 33. axb6 {[%emt 0:00:07]} Kxb6 {[%emt 0:00:03]} 34. Bd1 {[%emt 0:01:26]} d5 {[%emt 0:01:33]} 35. exd5 {[%emt 0:00:14]} exd5 {[%emt 0:00:03]} 36. Bg4 {[%emt 0:00:29]} d4 {[%emt 0:00:22]} 37. c4 {[%emt 0:00:49]} Bc7 {[%emt 0:00:34]} 38. Re1 {[%emt 0:00:23]} Kc6 {[%emt 0:00:38]} 39. Re6+ {[%emt 0:00:18]} Rxe6 {[%emt 0:00:16]} 40. Bxe6 {[%emt 0:00:00]} Ba5 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 41. Rd3 {[%emt 0:02:32]} Be1 {[%emt 0:10:18]} 42. Bd5+ {[%emt 0:01:10]} Kd6 {[%emt 0:00:29]} 43. Bf3 {[%emt 0:08:05]} h5 {[%emt 0:09:55]} 44. g4 {[%emt 0:09:32]} h4 {[%emt 0:00:55]} 45. Kf1 {[%emt 0:06:35]} Bb4 {[%emt 0:00:06]} 46. Be2 {[%emt 0:01:38]} Ke5 {[%emt 0:00:13]} 47. Bf3 {[%emt 0:01:27]} a5 {[%emt 0:01:56]} 48. Bd1 {[%emt 0:01:13]} Rf4 {[%emt 0:01:25]} 49. b3 {[%emt 0:02:35]} Bc3 {[%emt 0:01:19]} 50. Be2 {[%emt 0:00:59]} Rf8 {[%emt 0:00:45]} 51. Rf3 {[%emt 0:00:32]} Rxf3 {[%emt 0:00:07]} 52. Bxf3 {[%emt 0:00:05]} d3 {[%emt 0:00:03]} 53. Bb7 {[%emt 0:00:47]} Bd2 {[%emt 0:00:08]} 54. Bc6 {[%emt 0:00:38]} Kd4 {[%emt 0:00:36]} 55. Be8 {[%emt 0:00:32]} Kc3 {[%emt 0:00:46]} 56. Ba4 {[%emt 0:00:22]} Kb2 {[%emt 0:00:19]} 57. f3 {[%emt 0:00:22]} Kc1 {[%emt 0:00:13]} 58. Kf2 {[%emt 0:00:22]} Bb4 {[%emt 0:00:20]} 59. f4 {[%emt 0:00:45]} d2 {[%emt 0:00:05]} 0-1

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.12"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Makka, Evanthia"]
[Black "Koutoukidis, Panagiotis"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A46"]
[WhiteElo "2084"]
[BlackElo "2357"]
[Annotator "NA"]
[PlyCount "92"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[TimeControl "40/5400+30:1800+30"]

1. d4 {[%emt 0:00:00]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 2. Nf3 {[%emt 0:00:05]} d5 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 3. c4 {[%emt 0:01:31]} e6 {[%emt 0:00:09]} 4. e3 {[%emt 0:00:39]} Be7 {[%emt 0:00:07]} 5. Nbd2 {[%emt 0:05:49]} O-O {[%emt 0:01:30]} 6. b3 {[%emt 0:02:22] D30: Queen's Gambit Declined: Systems without Nc3} b6 {[%emt 0:02:24]} 7. Bb2 {[%emt 0:03:02]} Bb7 {[%emt 0:00:35]} 8. Be2 {[%emt 0:03:45]} (8. Bd3 c5 9. dxc5 Bxc5 10. O-O dxc4 11. Nxc4 Nbd7 12. Qe2 b5 13. Nce5 Nxe5 14. Nxe5 a6 {1-0 (25) Wojtaszek,R (2749)-Svane,R (2555) Doha 2016}) 8... Nbd7 {[%emt 0:00:20]} 9. O-O {[%emt 0:01:43]} c5 {[%emt 0:07:13]} 10. Rc1 {[%emt 0:05:32]} Rc8 {[%emt 0:05:27] LiveBook: 15 Games} 11. cxd5 {[%emt 0:14:23]} Nxd5 {[%emt 0:00:46]} 12. Nc4 {[%emt 0:06:07]} b5 {[%emt 0:05:12]} 13. Nce5 {[%emt 0:03:59]} Nxe5 {[%emt 0:00:09]} 14. Nxe5 {[%emt 0:02:43]} a6 {[%emt 0:00:49]} 15. Bd3 $146 {[%emt 0:07:40]} ({Predecessor:} 15. Qd2 f6 16. Nf3 g5 17. Rfd1 Qb6 18. dxc5 Bxc5 {1-0 (45) Biro,K (2166)-Zelovic,M (2040) Slovakia 2009}) 15... Nf6 {[%emt 0:05:34]} 16. Qe2 {[%emt 0:03:54]} Qd5 {[%emt 0:07:21]} 17. f3 {[%emt 0:02:44]} cxd4 {[%emt 0:01:09]} 18. Bxd4 {[%emt 0:01:52]} Bd6 {[%emt 0:05:36]} 19. f4 {[%emt 0:04:28]} Ba8 {[%emt 0:09:49]} 20. Ng4 {[%emt 0:10:01]} Nxg4 {[%emt 0:01:29]} 21. Qxg4 {[%emt 0:00:09]} g6 {[%emt 0:00:41]} 22. Rcd1 {[%emt 0:03:25]} Bc5 {[%emt 0:05:43]} 23. Be2 {[%emt 0:06:23] [#]} (23. Bxc5 $15 Qxc5 24. Qe2) 23... Bxd4 $1 {[%emt 0:07:08]} 24. Rxd4 {[%emt 0:01:56]} Qc5 {[%emt 0:00:05]} 25. Rfd1 {[%emt 0:02:33]} Qc3 {[%emt 0:00:48]} 26. Kf2 {[%emt 0:01:52]} Qb2 {[%emt 0:00:57]} 27. R1d2 {[%emt 0:02:05]} Rc2 {[%emt 0:00:13]} 28. Rxc2 {[%emt 0:00:21]} Qxc2 {[%emt 0:00:07]} 29. Qg5 {[%emt 0:01:07]} Bd5 {[%emt 0:01:39]} 30. f5 {[%emt 0:01:13]} (30. h4 $15) 30... f6 {[%emt 0:06:49]} 31. Qh6 {[%emt 0:00:53]} Qxf5+ {[%emt 0:00:20]} 32. Rf4 {[%emt 0:00:15]} Qe5 {[%emt 0:01:29]} 33. h4 {[%emt 0:01:17]} (33. Rh4 $17 {keeps fighting.} Qc7 34. Rd4) 33... Qc7 {[%emt 0:05:25]} 34. Rg4 {[%emt 0:00:37]} e5 {[%emt 0:02:25]} 35. Bd3 {[%emt 0:00:33]} (35. e4 {was necessary.} f5 36. exf5) 35... Qg7 {[%emt 0:00:42]} 36. Qxg7+ {[%emt 0:00:14]} Kxg7 {[%emt 0:00:05]} 37. a4 {[%emt 0:00:24]} e4 {[%emt 0:00:49]} 38. Be2 $2 {[%emt 0:00:28]} (38. Bxe4 {is the only way for White.} f5 39. Rxg6+ hxg6 40. Bxd5) 38... f5 {[%emt 0:00:20]} 39. Rg3 {[%emt 0:00:14]} b4 {[%emt 0:01:27]} 40. Bd1 {[%emt 0:00:00]} Rc8 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 41. Rh3 {[%emt 0:06:48]} Rc3 $19 {[%emt 0:01:29]} 42. h5 {[%emt 0:07:25]} Bxb3 {[%emt 0:00:31]} 43. h6+ {[%emt 0:00:08]} Kf6 {[%emt 0:00:14]} 44. Bxb3 {[%emt 0:01:33]} Rxb3 {[%emt 0:00:06]} 45. Rh1 {[%emt 0:00:06]} Ra3 {[%emt 0:00:17]} 46. Rc1 {[%emt 0:00:16]} Ke5 0-1

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.13"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Nikolaidis, Ioannis"]
[Black "Grivas, Efstratios"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A80"]
[WhiteElo "2564"]
[BlackElo "2424"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "74"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,74,49,36,35,40,39,43,29,37,34,36,32,56,36,49,45,87,57,63,66,63,50,72,70,88,80,84,97,90,68,76,82,96,95,94,58,70,77,75,72,100,100,108,108,88,79,101,44,47,53,57,50,123,106,144,143,139,134,162,18,23,14,28,27,33,0,0]} 1. d4 f5 2. Bf4 Nf6 3. e3 e6 4. Nf3 Bd6 (4... b6 5. Be2 Be7 6. h3 Bb7 7. O-O O-O 8. c4 Ne4 9. Nbd2 Bf6 10. Nxe4 fxe4 11. Nd2 Bxd4 12. Qc2 Na6 {1-0 (44) Skoberne,J (2563)-Cheparinov,I (2693) Batumi 2018}) 5. Bxd6 cxd6 6. c4 {A80: Dutch Defence: Unusual White second moves} O-O $146 ({Predecessor:} 6... b6 7. Nc3 Bb7 8. Be2 O-O 9. O-O Nc6 10. Rc1 Ne7 11. Qb3 Kh8 12. c5 dxc5 13. dxc5 {0-1 (25) Stranginske,N (1844)-Pereira,G (1944) Blumenau 2016}) 7. Nc3 b6 8. d5 {White is slightly better.} Na6 9. Be2 Bb7 10. O-O Nc7 11. Qb3 exd5 12. cxd5 Ba6 13. Qc2 Bxe2 14. Qxe2 Qe7 15. Rfd1 {[%cal Bf1d1,Bd1d4,Bd4a4][%mdl 32]} Rac8 16. Rd4 Ng4 17. Rad1 Ne8 18. h3 Ne5 19. Ra4 a5 20. Nd2 Nf6 21. f4 Nf7 22. Qd3 g6 23. e4 fxe4 24. Ndxe4 Nxe4 25. Rxe4 Qf6 26. Qe3 b5 27. a3 ({Of course not} 27. Nxb5 $6 Qxb2 28. Qb3 Rc2 $11) 27... Rb8 28. Rd2 (28. b4 $16) 28... b4 29. axb4 axb4 30. Ne2 Nh6 {[#]} (30... h5 $14) 31. g4 $1 $16 {[%cal Rg4g5] Threatens to win with g5.} Nf7 32. Ng3 h6 33. Kg2 b3 34. Qd4 ({White should try} 34. Re2 $18) 34... Qxd4 $11 35. Rdxd4 Rfc8 36. Rc4 Rc5 37. Rxc5 dxc5 {Precision: White = 51%, Black = 54%.} 1/2-1/2

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.13"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Kanakaris, Georgios"]
[Black "Kourkoulos-Arditis, Stamatis"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E62"]
[WhiteElo "2401"]
[BlackElo "2424"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "94"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 21,94,0,0,0,0,-25,3,0,0,-58,-57,-54,-39,-56,-66,-98,-93,-95,-117,-87,-63,-60,0,10,57,37,54,55,60,23,52,31,48,32,27,0,0,0,0,-104,-57,-49,-40,-43,-31,-26,-33,-33,-35,-40,-11,-15,-21,-29,-14,-20,-20,-12,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-47,-48,-95,-82,-341,-222,-1700,-1616,-29979,-29980,-29980,-29966]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nf3 Bg7 4. g3 O-O 5. Bg2 d6 6. O-O Nc6 7. Nc3 Bf5 8. d5 Na5 9. Nd2 c6 10. h3 {E62: King's Indian: Fianchetto: 6...c6 and Panno Variation (6...Nc6) without ...a6} (10. e4 Bg4 11. Qa4 cxd5 12. cxd5 Bd7 13. Qa3 Ng4 14. b4 Rc8 15. Bb2 Nc4 16. Nxc4 Rxc4 17. Qb3 Qc7 18. Rfc1 Nxf2 19. Kxf2 Qb6+ {0-1 (19) Karpov,A (2628)-Fressinet,L (2702) Cap d'Agde 2015}) 10... cxd5 11. cxd5 Rc8 {LiveBook: 6 Games} 12. e4 {The position is equal.} Bd7 13. Rb1 $146 ({Predecessor:} 13. Kh2 b5 14. a3 Qb6 15. f4 e6 16. dxe6 Bxe6 17. f5 {0-1 (28) Thakoerdien,J (2193)-Gavrilov,A (2491) Leiden 2017}) 13... e6 14. dxe6 Bxe6 15. Nf3 {[#]} (15. Re1 $11) 15... Rxc3 $1 $15 {[%mdl 576] Remove Defender} 16. bxc3 Nxe4 17. Bd2 Bxa2 18. Rb4 Bc4 19. Re1 {[%cal Bf1e1,Be1e2,Be2d2][%mdl 32]} d5 ({Weaker is} 19... Nxc3 20. Qc2 $16) 20. Nd4 Nc5 21. Rb1 Nc6 ({Black should play} 21... b6 $15) 22. Be3 $11 {[#] Nxc6 is the strong threat.} Nd3 {Strongly threatening ...Bxd4.} 23. Re2 $36 {[%mdl 3072] White has compensation. White is pushing.} Qc8 24. Rd2 Nde5 25. f4 Nd7 26. Nb5 $1 {[%cal Rb5d6]} Bxb5 27. Rxb5 Nf6 28. Kh2 Re8 {White must now prevent ...a6.} 29. Rd3 a6 $1 {[%cal Ra6b5]} 30. Rc5 (30. Rb6 $11) 30... b6 31. Rcxd5 $1 Nxd5 32. Bxd5 Ne7 33. Ba2 $1 b5 34. Qb3 Rf8 $1 35. c4 Nf5 36. cxb5 axb5 37. Bf2 Qc7 38. Qd5 h5 39. Kg2 b4 40. g4 hxg4 41. hxg4 Nh6 42. Kf3 Qc8 43. Qd7 {next g5 is good for White.} Qc1 {Hoping for ...Qh1+.} 44. Re3 $2 {[%mdl 8192]} (44. Kg3 $17) 44... Qh1+ 45. Kg3 $2 (45. Ke2) 45... Bf6 $19 {[%csl Gh1][%cal Rf6h4]} 46. f5 Bh4+ 47. Kf4 Bxf2 {Accuracy: White = 48%, Black = 76%.} 0-1

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.13"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Ioannidis, Evgenios"]
[Black "Makka, Evanthia"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D35"]
[WhiteElo "2382"]
[BlackElo "2084"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "45"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 21,45,12,29,0,0,0,32,38,23,15,56,55,85,68,106,93,103,55,52,60,133,170,228,291,704,693]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 c6 6. e3 h6 7. Bh4 Bd6 8. Bd3 O-O 9. Nge2 Nbd7 10. h3 Re8 11. Qc2 Nf8 {LiveBook: 5 Games. D36: Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation: Main line (5 Bg5 c6 6 Qc2)} (11... a5 12. g4 a4 13. Rg1 a3 14. b3 g5 15. Bg3 Bb4 16. O-O-O Qe7 17. Bf5 Ne4 18. Nxe4 dxe4 19. h4 {1-0 (28) Moiseenko,V (2522)-Antonenko,V (2343) Sochi 2018}) 12. O-O-O a5 13. g4 Be7 $146 {The position is equal.} ({Predecessor:} 13... b5 14. Kb1 Ba6 15. e4 b4 16. e5 g5 17. Bg3 Bxd3 18. Rxd3 bxc3 19. Nxc3 {½-½ (43) Gromark,P (2303)-Rogos,J (2358) ICCF email 2011}) 14. f3 N6h7 {[%cal Bf6h7,Bh7g5,Bg5f3][%mdl 32]} 15. Bxe7 Rxe7 16. e4 Ng5 17. exd5 Nxf3 18. dxc6 bxc6 19. Be4 Ng5 20. Bxc6 Bb7 {[#]} (20... Rb8 $1 $14) 21. d5 $1 $16 Qc8 (21... Qb6 $142) 22. Nd4 $18 Nd7 $2 (22... Bxc6 23. dxc6 Re5) 23. Nf5 {Accuracy: White = 74%, Black = 27%.} 1-0

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.13"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Koutoukidis, Panagiotis"]
[Black "Gouloutis, Nikolaos"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C11"]
[WhiteElo "2357"]
[BlackElo "2353"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "113"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 27,113,0,0,0,8,-33,88,71,138,54,57,20,33,1,127,203,181,152,271,217,248,252,316,239,252,227,228,260,294,197,188,184,297,274,294,280,577,581,610,591,616,358,787,828,793,770,678,585,825,776,760,736,951,487,488,488,432,339,316,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-138,-146,-1272,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. e4 {[%cal Be2e4,Be4e5][%mdl 32]} e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 {[%cal Bb1c3,Bc3a4,Ba4b2][%mdl 32]} Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Be3 Qb6 8. Na4 Qa5+ 9. c3 b6 10. Bd2 c4 11. b4 Qa6 {C11: French: Classical System: 4 e5 and 4 Bg5 dxe4} 12. Nb2 (12. Be2 Be7 13. O-O f5 14. Qc2 O-O 15. Kh1 Qb7 16. Rg1 Rf7 17. g4 b5 18. gxf5 Rxf5 19. Nc5 Nxc5 20. bxc5 {0-1 (57) Karjakin,S (2773)-Duda,J (2737) chess.com INT 2018}) 12... b5 13. a4 bxa4 14. Nxa4 Qb5 {LiveBook: 3 Games} 15. Nc5 a5 16. f5 $146 (16. Nb3 $5) ({Predecessor:} 16. Nb3 Be7 17. Nxa5 Nxa5 18. Qa4 Qxa4 19. Rxa4 {0-1 (36) Krogh,C (2330)-Danielian,O (2440) Hallsberg 1993}) 16... Nxc5 (16... exf5 $15 17. Be2 Ra7) 17. bxc5 $16 a4 ({Black should try} 17... Rb8) 18. Rb1 (18. f6 $1 $16) 18... Qa5 $14 19. fxe6 Bxe6 20. Ng5 $1 $36 {[%mdl 2048] White is more active.} Be7 (20... a3 $11) 21. Nxe6 $16 fxe6 22. Qg4 $1 {[%csl LRe6,LRg7][%mdl 64] Double Attack} Nd8 (22... Kd7 $16) 23. Qxg7 $18 Rf8 24. Be2 (24. Qxh7 a3 $14) 24... Ra7 25. Qxh7 a3 26. Qc2 a2 27. Ra1 $1 Nc6 28. Qg6+ Kd7 29. Bg4 Nd8 {[#]} (29... Kc7 {was called for.}) 30. Bxe6+ $1 {[%mdl 512]} Nxe6 {[#]} 31. c6+ $1 {[%mdl 512]} Kd8 $2 (31... Kc7 {keeps fighting.} 32. Qxe6 Kb8) (31... Kxc6 32. Qxe6+) 32. Qxe6 Qb5 33. Ke2 {Hoping for Rxa2!} Qb2 34. Qxd5+ Ke8 $2 (34... Kc8 35. Qe6+ Kb8) 35. Rhf1 {White wants to mate with Rxf8+.} Qc2 36. Rxf8+ Bxf8 37. Qe6+ Kd8 38. Qxc4 Qe4+ 39. Kf2 $1 Qb1 40. Bg5+ (40. Rxb1 axb1=Q 41. Bg5+ Be7 $16) 40... Kc7 41. Qf7+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} (41. Rxb1 axb1=Q 42. Qf7+ Kxc6 $18) 41... Kxc6 42. Qf3+ (42. Qxf8 Qxa1 43. Qd6+ Kb7 $16) 42... Kc7 43. Bd8+ $2 (43. Qxf8 Qxa1 44. Qf7+ Kc8 $11) (43. Qf7+ Kc6 $18) (43. Rxb1 $18 {White threatens Qf7+ and mate.} axb1=Q 44. Qf7+ Kb6 45. Bd8+ (45. Qxf8 Ra2+ 46. Kg3 Qe1+ 47. Kg4 Rxg2+ 48. Kh3 Qe4 $18) 45... Ka6 46. Qxf8) 43... Kc8 $11 44. Qxf8 Qxa1 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KQR-KQB} 45. Be7+ Kb7 46. Qf3+ Kc8 {Threatens to win with ...Qb2+.} 47. Qg4+ (47. Qf5+ $11 {remains equal.} Rd7 48. Qf8+ Kb7 49. Qf3+ Kc7 50. Bd6+ Kb6 51. Bc5+ Kc7 52. Bd6+ Kb6 53. Bc5+ Kc7 54. Bd6+) 47... Kc7 $1 $17 48. Bd8+ $2 {[%mdl 8192] [#]} ({Avoid the trap} 48. Bd6+ $2 Kb6 $19) (48. Bb4 $17) 48... Kxd8 $2 ({Black should play} 48... Kb8 $1 $19 49. Qg8 Qb2+ 50. Kg3 Qxc3+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 51. Kh4 Qxd4+ 52. Kh5 {[#]} Rh7+ $1 {[%mdl 576] Promotion} 53. Qxh7 Qxd8) 49. Qg8+ $11 {The position is equal.} Ke7 {...Qb2+ is the strong threat.} 50. Qg7+ Ke6 51. Qg6+ Kd5 52. Qg8+ $1 Ke4 53. Qg6+ Kd5 54. Qg8+ $1 Kc6 {Strongly threatening ...Qb2+.} (54... Ke4 $5 55. Qg6+ $8 Kd5 $11) 55. Qe6+ Kb7 56. Qd7+ Kb8 57. Qd8+ {Accuracy: White = 53%, Black = 31%.} 1/2-1/2

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.13"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Skaperdas, Kostantinos"]
[Black "Mastrovasilis, Athanasios"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C78"]
[WhiteElo "2231"]
[BlackElo "2510"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 21,62,0,15,8,15,0,0,7,0,-42,-33,-97,-102,-85,-83,-158,-144,-144,-154,-129,-147,-266,-199,-326,-339,-325,-302,-331,-313,-329,-304,-513,-494,-608,-580,-29983,-29981,-29981,-29982,-3530,-3001,-29986,-29987]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O b5 6. Bb3 Bb7 7. Nc3 Be7 8. d3 O-O 9. a3 {C84: Closed Ruy Lopez: Unusual White 6th moves} d6 10. Nd5 (10. Ne2 Qd7 11. Ng3 Nd8 12. Ba2 c5 13. b4 Ne6 14. Re1 Rae8 15. c4 Bd8 16. h3 Bb6 17. Be3 {0-1 (42) Wei,Y (2734)-Yu,Y (2759) Ningbo 2018}) 10... Nxd5 11. Bxd5 Bf6 {LiveBook: 5 Games} 12. c3 Qc8 13. Bg5 Bxg5 14. Nxg5 {And now Qh5 would win.} h6 15. Nxf7 $146 ({Predecessor:} 15. Nh3 Ne7 16. Bb3 d5 {0-1 (32) Gonzalez Recas,F (1766)-Rueda Maria,R (1891) Madrid 2016}) 15... Rxf7 16. Qb3 (16. Bxf7+ $15 Kxf7 17. a4) 16... Nd8 $1 $17 {White must now prevent ...Bxd5.} 17. Bxf7+ Nxf7 18. f4 {[#]} (18. f3 $142) 18... c5 $1 {[%cal Bc7c5,Bc5c4][%mdl 32]} 19. c4 {[#]} exf4 $1 20. cxb5 g5 21. g3 {[#]} (21. a4 $17 {was worth a try.}) 21... d5 $1 {[%mdl 512]} 22. bxa6 (22. Rae1 $142) (22. exd5 axb5) 22... Rxa6 $19 23. Rae1 c4 24. Qc3 dxe4 25. dxe4 Qc5+ 26. Kg2 $2 (26. Rf2 {was the only defense.}) 26... Re6 27. gxf4 Bxe4+ 28. Kh3 Qf5+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 29. Kg3 gxf4+ 30. Kf2 Rg6 {[%csl Ge4][%cal Rg6g2]} 31. Rg1 Qc5+ {Accuracy: White = 30%, Black = 83%.} 0-1

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.14"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Mastrovasilis, Athanasios"]
[Black "Kanakaris, Georgios"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A05"]
[WhiteElo "2510"]
[BlackElo "2401"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "141"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 10,141,28,12,13,15,12,3,18,13,5,8,25,28,32,25,52,48,48,49,64,52,83,83,83,89,81,87,85,78,82,67,75,72,91,87,103,110,122,103,139,106,114,95,100,89,100,107,103,92,104,82,91,58,100,77,100,66,89,14,23,17,21,8,8,0,29,0,42,21,50,24,42,27,107,79,87,55,88,68,135,85,118,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 g6 3. b3 Bg7 4. Bb2 O-O 5. Bg2 a5 6. a4 {LiveBook: 4 Games. A05: Réti Opening: 1 Nf3 Nf6} (6. O-O a4 7. c4 d6 8. d4 Nbd7 9. Nc3 Nb6 10. Qc2 d5 11. c5 a3 12. Bxa3 Rxa3 13. cxb6 cxb6 {0-1 (66) Carlsen,M (2838)-Jobava,B (2701) chess.com INT 2017}) 6... d5 7. d4 Nc6 $146 ({Predecessor:} 7... Bf5 8. Nbd2 c6 9. O-O Qc8 10. Re1 h6 11. c4 {½-½ (51) Secula,V (2080)-Uhlmann,W (2460) Grieskirchen 1998}) 8. Nbd2 Bf5 9. Nh4 Be6 10. O-O h6 11. Nhf3 {[%cal Bh4f3,Bf3e5,Be5d3,Bd3f4][%mdl 32]} Nb4 12. Ne5 Rc8 13. c3 Na6 14. e3 Nd7 15. Nd3 c6 16. Nf4 Nc7 17. c4 Nf6 18. Nxe6 Nxe6 19. Bh3 Qd7 20. Qe1 Ra8 21. Rc1 Nh7 22. f4 f5 23. cxd5 cxd5 24. Nf3 Nd8 25. Qe2 Nc6 26. Qb5 Rfc8 27. Ne5 Bxe5 28. dxe5 Nf8 29. Rfd1 {[%cal Bf1d1,Bd1d2,Bd2c2][%mdl 32]} e6 30. Bf1 Qe7 31. Rd2 Nd7 32. Rdc2 Rab8 33. Bd4 Kf7 34. Bc5 (34. Bc3 $16) 34... Nxc5 $11 35. Rxc5 Qd8 36. Bd3 h5 37. R5c2 Kg8 38. Bf1 Kf7 39. Be2 Kf8 40. Qc5+ Kf7 41. Bb5 Rc7 (41... g5 $11 {keeps the balance.}) 42. Bxc6 Rxc6 {[#]} 43. Qa7 $1 Rxc2 44. Rxc2 $14 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KQR-KQR} Ke8 (44... Kg7 $14) 45. Kg2 Rc8 {[#]} 46. Rc5 (46. Rxc8 $1 $16 Qxc8 47. Qxa5) 46... Rxc5 $11 {The position is equal.} 47. Qxc5 {KQ-KQ} Kf7 48. Kf3 b6 49. Qc3 Qd7 50. Ke2 Qb7 51. Kd2 Ke8 52. b4 axb4 53. Qxb4 Qc6 54. a5 bxa5 55. Qxa5 Qb7 56. Qa4+ Kf7 57. Qa3 Qb6 58. Qc3 Qa7 59. Ke1 Qb7 60. Kf2 Kg7 61. Qc5 Kf7 62. Qa3 Kg7 63. Kg1 h4 64. gxh4 Qb1+ 65. Kf2 {Hoping for Qe7+.} Qc2+ 66. Kg3 {Threatens to win with Qe7+.} Qd1 67. Qe7+ Kh6 68. Qf8+ Kh7 69. Qf7+ Kh6 70. Qf8+ Kh7 71. Qe7+ {Accuracy: White = 45%, Black = 60%.} 1/2-1/2

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.14"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Grivas, Efstratios"]
[Black "Skaperdas, Kostantinos"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A13"]
[WhiteElo "2424"]
[BlackElo "2231"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "75"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 23,75,-3,11,0,20,0,0,-10,32,28,39,20,33,5,31,0,0,0,8,8,54,6,6,3,22,0,4,0,9,11,11,0,34,35,64,78,58,40,81,75,466,465,606,598,594,587,822,808,808,797,29974,952,833,752]} 1. c4 e6 2. g3 d5 3. Bg2 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. O-O Ne7 6. d4 Nbc6 7. cxd5 exd5 8. Nc3 O-O 9. Bf4 Bg4 {A13: English Opening: 1...e6} 10. Ne5 Nxe5 11. Bxe5 c6 12. Bxg7 Kxg7 {LiveBook: 4 Games} 13. Qd2 Qd7 14. b4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 14. Rfe1 Rad8 15. b4 Bh3 16. Bh1 h5 17. a4 {0-1 (53) Gholami,A (2454)-Miroshnichenko,E (2616) Guilan 2016}) 14... Rfe8 15. a4 {[%cal Ba2a4,Ba4a5][%mdl 32]} Nc8 {[%cal Be7c8,Bc8b6,Bb6c4,Bc4d2][%mdl 32]} 16. e4 {[%cal Re4d5]} Nb6 17. a5 Nc4 18. Qf4 {[%cal Re4d5]} Be6 19. exd5 cxd5 20. h4 h5 21. Rfc1 Rec8 22. Qf3 {[%cal Rc3d5]} Nd2 $1 {[%cal Rd2f3]} 23. Qd1 $1 {[%cal Rd1d2]} Nc4 24. Qd3 Rc7 25. Ne2 Rac8 26. Nf4 Bf5 27. Qd1 Be6 28. Qe2 Bg4 29. Qa2 Be6 30. Rc2 Qd6 31. Re1 Qxb4 $2 {[%mdl 8192]} (31... Bf5 $16) 32. Rxe6 $18 ({Weaker is} 32. Nxe6+ fxe6 33. Rxe6 Rc6 $16) 32... fxe6 33. Nxe6+ {[%mdl 64] [#] Double Attack} Kh7 {Hoping for ...Qe1+.} 34. Nxc7 Rxc7 35. Bxd5 Qe1+ 36. Kg2 Nd2 37. Rxd2 (37. Rxc7+ $142 Kh6 38. Rf7 Qc1 39. Bxb7 a6 40. Qe6 Nc4 41. Qe7 Ne3+ 42. fxe3) 37... Rc1 38. Kh3 {Accuracy: White = 53%, Black = 22%.} 1-0

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.14"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Kourkoulos-Arditis, Stamatis"]
[Black "Koutoukidis, Panagiotis"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C84"]
[WhiteElo "2424"]
[BlackElo "2357"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "113"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 18,113,45,42,37,47,41,19,25,21,29,22,58,62,68,66,64,64,95,93,107,115,105,69,81,47,48,0,44,14,18,0,67,81,82,82,76,70,102,102,109,100,120,91,91,88,83,71,149,116,132,132,132,127,136,130,129,119,125,108,114,111,107,87,91,90,89,90,95,89,88,87,101,93,94,94,242,248,215,238,229,187,387,379,369,370,435,440,347,327,560,590,29976,29977,29977,29978,29978,29976]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. d3 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. a4 Na5 {C84: Closed Ruy Lopez: Unusual White 6th moves} (8... b4 9. a5 O-O 10. Nbd2 h6 11. Re1 Rb8 12. h3 Be6 13. Ba4 Nxa5 14. d4 c5 15. dxe5 dxe5 16. Nxe5 c4 17. Qe2 Rc8 18. Ndf3 {½-½ (25) Vitiugov,N (2730)-Tomashevsky,E (2702) Satka 2018}) 9. axb5 Nxb3 10. cxb3 {LiveBook: 7 Games} Bb7 {White is slightly better.} 11. bxa6 Bxa6 12. Na3 $146 ({Predecessor:} 12. b4 O-O 13. Nc3 Qd7 14. Re1 Rfb8 15. d4 exd4 16. Qxd4 {½-½ (46) Bulockin,M (2154)-Gheng,J (2328) Pardubice 2018}) 12... O-O 13. Nc4 Bb5 14. Bd2 Nd7 {[%cal Bf6d7,Bd7c5,Bc5e6,Be6f4][%mdl 32]} 15. Qc2 Nc5 16. d4 exd4 17. Nxd4 Qd7 18. Nxb5 Qxb5 19. b4 Ne6 20. Ne3 Bg5 21. Rxa8 Rxa8 22. Nf5 Bf6 23. Bc3 Nf4 {White must now prevent ...Bxc3.} 24. Ng3 {Threatens to win with Bxf6.} (24. Re1 {feels hotter.} Qd3 25. Qxd3 Nxd3 26. Rb1 Bxc3 27. bxc3 Ra3 28. b5) 24... Bh4 ({Black should try} 24... Bxc3 $11 25. bxc3 h5) 25. Re1 $1 $14 Bxg3 26. hxg3 Ne6 27. Qd2 Rb8 28. Ra1 h6 29. Qd5 Qe2 30. Re1 Qa6 31. Rd1 Qa4 32. Qd3 Qb3 ({Better is} 32... Rd8) 33. Qe2 Qa4 34. Rd5 Qc6 35. f3 Qb6+ 36. Kh2 Ra8 37. Ra5 Rb8 38. Ra6 Qb7 39. Qc4 Kf8 40. Rc6 Qb5 41. Qxb5 Rxb5 $16 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRN} 42. Ra6 Ke7 43. g4 f6 44. Kg3 Kd7 45. Ra8 d5 46. Ra5 Rxa5 (46... c6 $16) 47. bxa5 {KB-KN} d4 48. Be1 c5 49. b3 $1 g5 $2 (49... Kc6 {was necessary.}) 50. Kf2 $18 Kc6 51. g3 $1 Kb5 52. Ke2 Nd8 53. Kd3 Nc6 $2 {[#]} (53... Ne6 54. a6 Kxa6) 54. f4 $1 {[%cal Bf3f4,Bf4f5][%mdl 32]} Nxa5 55. Bxa5 {White mates.} Kxa5 56. e5 fxe5 {[#]} 57. f5 $1 {Accuracy: White = 69%, Black = 39%.} 1-0

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.14"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Gouloutis, Nikolaos"]
[Black "Ioannidis, Evgenios"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A48"]
[WhiteElo "2353"]
[BlackElo "2382"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "126"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 13,126,7,6,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,35,8,22,7,7,12,13,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,16,17,31,25,32,-21,-11,-21,0,-54,-54,-54,-49,-59,-53,-114,-84,-113,-114,-108,-112,-166,-148,-181,-180,-234,-159,-179,-184,-303,-308,-334,-351,-339,-354,-351,-345,-344,-307,-400,-391,-504,-512,-639,-627,-1018,-876,-879,-793,-961,-947,-1539,-1472,-1290,-1048,-1558,-1277,-1371,-1360,-1446,-1550,-2095,-2070,-2197,-1515,-5189,-5771,-2533,-5279,-4347,-2177,-29957,-29958,-5081,-6156,-29988,-29979,-29971,-29975,-29980,-29980,-29985,-29986,-29986,-29987,-29987,-29988,-29990,-29991,-29991,-29992]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. Bg5 Bg7 4. Nbd2 d5 5. e3 c5 6. c3 Qb6 7. Qb3 Nc6 {LiveBook: 26 Games. D03: 1 d4 d5 2 Nf3 Nf6 3 Bg5, including Torre Attack with early ...d5} 8. Qxb6 (8. Be2 O-O 9. O-O Bf5 10. h3 Rfe8 11. Bf4 Ne4 12. g4 Nxd2 13. Nxd2 Bc8 14. Qxb6 axb6 15. Bc7 cxd4 16. exd4 e5 17. dxe5 Bxe5 18. Bxe5 Rxe5 {½-½ (39) Tomashevsky,E (2722)-Volokitin,A (2668) Novi Sad 2016}) 8... axb6 9. Bb5 O-O $146 {The position is equal.} ({Predecessor:} 9... Bd7 10. O-O O-O 11. a4 c4 12. Ne5 Be8 13. e4 e6 14. exd5 exd5 15. Rfe1 {0-1 (35) Samur,A (2164)-Hobaica,J (2312) Pinamar 2005}) 10. Ne5 Na7 11. Be2 b5 12. a4 (12. O-O {feels hotter.} h6 13. Bh4 g5 14. Bg3 c4 15. a4) 12... b4 13. cxb4 ({Worse is} 13. dxc5 bxc3 14. bxc3 Ne4 $17) 13... cxd4 14. exd4 Nd7 15. Nef3 Nc6 16. Nb3 Nxb4 {Strongly threatening ...f6.} 17. O-O Nf6 18. Rfc1 h6 19. Bd2 Nc6 20. Bb5 Ne4 21. Be1 (21. Bxc6 $14 bxc6 22. Bf4) 21... Bd7 $11 22. Bxc6 bxc6 (22... Bxc6 {is more complex.} 23. Na5 Be8 24. Rc7 b5 25. Rxe7 bxa4 26. Rb7 f6) 23. Nc5 (23. Ne5 $11 Rfb8 24. Na5 Bxe5 25. dxe5) 23... Nxc5 $15 24. Rxc5 Rfb8 25. b4 f6 $1 26. Bc3 ({Better is} 26. a5 $15) 26... e6 27. Ra5 Rxa5 28. bxa5 Bf8 29. Nd2 (29. g3 $17) 29... c5 30. f4 Kf7 31. Kf2 (31. g3 {might work better.}) 31... c4 32. a6 Bd6 33. a5 (33. g3 $142) 33... Bxf4 $19 34. Rb1 Rxb1 ({Avoid the trap} 34... Bxh2 $2 35. a7 $18) 35. Nxb1 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KBB-KBN} Bb8 ({Inferior is} 35... Bxh2 36. g3 $16) 36. Bb4 Bc8 37. Nc3 Bxa6 38. Na4 e5 {[%cal Be6e5,Be5d4][%mdl 32]} 39. Bc5 Bc7 40. Bb6 Bxb6 41. axb6 exd4 {KB-KN} 42. Nc5 {[#]} Bc8 $1 43. Ke2 Ke7 44. b7 {[#]} Bxb7 $1 45. Nxb7 {KN-KP} h5 46. Kd2 Kd7 47. Ke2 g5 48. Nc5+ Ke7 49. Kd2 f5 {[%cal Bf6f5,Bf5f4][%mdl 32]} 50. Ke2 f4 51. Na4 Kd6 52. Nb2 Kc5 53. Nd1 Kb4 54. Kd2 Kb3 55. Kc1 g4 56. g3 f3 {Black mates.} 57. Nf2 Kc3 58. h4 gxh3 59. Nxh3 Kd3 60. Kd1 Ke3 61. Ke1 c3 {[%cal Bc4c3,Bc3c2][%mdl 32]} 62. Nf4 c2 {[%cal Rc2c1]} 63. Nxd5+ Ke4 {Accuracy: White = 31%, Black = 82%.} 0-1

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.14"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Makka, Evanthia"]
[Black "Nikolaidis, Ioannis"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "2084"]
[BlackElo "2564"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "95"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 20,95,22,10,29,23,88,67,104,96,102,73,70,39,84,34,58,-2,48,38,84,84,76,87,142,127,345,330,370,346,309,189,299,217,526,518,722,697,712,705,712,705,683,671,639,643,704,678,779,645,613,576,568,574,625,612,631,629,635,623,631,620,811,797,757,742,751,712,985,978,927,891,1020,966,5876,5875,29978,4858]} 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 dxc4 4. e3 a6 5. a4 Nf6 6. Bxc4 b6 {D26: Queen's Gambit Accepted: 4 e3 e6 5 Bxc5 c5 sidelines} 7. O-O Bb7 8. Nc3 Bb4 9. Qe2 O-O 10. Rd1 Nbd7 (10... Qe7 11. Na2 Bd6 12. Nc3 Bb4 13. Na2 Bd6 14. Nc3 {½-½ (14) Mamedyarov,S (2799)-Grischuk,A (2772) Huaian 2017}) 11. Bd3 {LiveBook: 21 Games} Qe7 12. e4 h6 $146 (12... e5 $11 {keeps the balance.}) ({Predecessor:} 12... e5 13. Bg5 h6 14. Bh4 {½-½ (65) Abdyjapar,A (2372)-Mastrovasilis,D (2594) Batumi 2018}) 13. Na2 $1 $16 c5 14. Nxb4 cxb4 15. Bd2 a5 16. Bf4 Rfc8 17. Qe3 Ba6 18. Bb1 (18. Bxa6 $14 Rxa6 19. h3) 18... Ne8 19. e5 Nf8 20. d5 exd5 21. Nd4 $1 {[%cal Bf3d4,Bd4f5,Bf5e3][%mdl 32]} Ne6 {[#]} (21... Kh8 $142) 22. Nf5 $1 {[%cal Rf5e7]} Qf8 $2 {[#]} (22... Qd8 $16 {might work better.}) 23. Bxh6 $1 $18 {[%mdl 512]} f6 (23... gxh6 24. Nxh6+) 24. Qh3 {Bxg7! is the strong threat.} Rc7 25. Ne3 $40 {[%mdl 128] White goes for the king.} Bc8 (25... Rc6 {was necessary.}) 26. Qg3 ({Resist} 26. Nxd5 $6 gxh6 27. Nxc7 N6xc7 $18) 26... fxe5 $2 (26... Kh8 {is more resistant.}) 27. Nxd5 {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} Nd4 28. Rxd4 exd4 29. Nxc7 Nxc7 30. Qxc7 Be6 31. Be4 Re8 32. Qg3 Bc4 33. Bg6 Re6 34. Bd2 Qd6 35. Qxd6 Rxd6 36. Be4 d3 37. f3 {[%cal Bf2f3,Bf3f4,Bf4f5,Bf5f6][%mdl 32]} Bb3 38. Kf2 Bc2 39. Ke3 Kf7 40. h4 g6 41. g4 {[%cal Bg2g4,Bg4g5,Bg5g6][%mdl 32]} Kg7 42. f4 Re6 43. h5 gxh5 44. g5 Re8 45. f5 h4 46. f6+ Kf7 47. Rf1 Bxa4 48. g6+ {Accuracy: White = 65%, Black = 15%.} 1-0

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.15"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Nikolaidis, Ioannis"]
[Black "Gouloutis, Nikolaos"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E11"]
[WhiteElo "2564"]
[BlackElo "2353"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "125"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 20,125,36,16,40,42,53,53,62,52,52,46,42,45,33,42,70,76,85,24,22,15,19,23,22,21,22,28,22,21,26,8,11,12,35,18,31,20,20,16,16,22,22,16,16,16,22,10,17,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,0,7,7,7,7,7,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,2,9,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,9,9]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Bb4+ 4. Bd2 a5 5. Qc2 d6 6. Nc3 Nbd7 7. a3 {E11: Bogo-Indian} Bxc3 8. Bxc3 Qe7 9. b3 e5 10. e3 O-O 11. Be2 {LiveBook: 3 Games} Re8 12. O-O e4 13. Nd2 d5 14. b4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 14. Rfc1 Nf8 15. b4 Ng6 16. bxa5 Qe6 {1-0 (35) Miron,L (2495)-Ganaus,H (2241) Arad 2017}) 14... axb4 15. axb4 Rxa1 16. Rxa1 dxc4 17. b5 Nd5 18. Nxc4 N7b6 19. Nxb6 (19. Ra7 $16) 19... cxb6 $11 20. Bd2 f5 21. Ra8 Be6 22. Qa4 Kf7 23. h3 Qd7 24. Rxe8 Qxe8 25. f3 exf3 26. Bxf3 Qb8 27. Qa2 Qd8 28. Qb1 Qd7 {The position is equal.} 29. e4 fxe4 30. Qxe4 Nf6 31. Qe5 Bd5 32. Be2 Qe7 33. Qxe7+ Kxe7 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KBB-KBN} 34. Bg5 Ke6 35. Bxf6 Kxf6 {KB-KB} 36. Kf2 Ke6 37. h4 Kd6 38. g3 Be6 39. Ke3 Bd7 40. Bc4 Be8 41. Kf4 Bg6 42. Ke3 Be8 43. Ke4 Bg6+ 44. Kf4 Bc2 45. g4 h6 46. g5 hxg5+ 47. Kxg5 Bb1 48. Kg4 Bc2 49. Kf4 Bb1 50. Be2 Bc2 51. Ke3 Bg6 52. Bd3 Be8 53. Bc4 Bg6 54. Kf4 Bc2 55. Be2 Bb1 56. Ke3 Bg6 57. Kd2 Be4 58. Bd3 Bd5 59. Ke3 Bf7 60. Kf4 Kd5 61. Ke3 Kd6 62. Be2 Bg6 63. Bc4 {Accuracy: White = 48%, Black = 86%.} 1/2-1/2

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.15"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Mastrovasilis, Athanasios"]
[Black "Grivas, Efstratios"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A80"]
[WhiteElo "2510"]
[BlackElo "2424"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "63"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 20,63,64,61,78,77,83,79,116,101,137,132,129,128,130,133,147,135,150,86,90,63,105,98,110,106,116,115,116,115,248,240,485,487,479,472,613,626,608,606,595,579,858,659,575,547]} 1. d4 f5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bg5 d5 4. e3 e6 5. Nf3 Be7 6. Bd3 O-O 7. O-O Ne4 8. Bxe7 Qxe7 9. Ne2 Nd7 10. c4 c6 11. Rc1 {LiveBook: 10 Games} Nd6 {D55: Queen's Gambit Declined: 4 Bg5 Be7: Lines without ...h6 and 6...h6 7 Bxf6} 12. Qb3 Qf6 $146 ({Predecessor:} 12... Kh8 13. Qa3 a5 14. Ne5 {½-½ (45) So,W (2770)-Carlsen,M (2855) Leuven 2016}) 13. h4 Kh8 {White is better.} 14. Qa3 e5 15. dxe5 Nxe5 16. Nxe5 Qxe5 17. cxd5 cxd5 18. Rc7 Be6 19. Nd4 ({White should try} 19. Qb4) 19... Bg8 $16 20. Rd7 Nc4 21. Bxc4 dxc4 22. Rxb7 f4 23. Nf3 $36 {[%mdl 2048] Black is under strong pressure.} Qf6 24. e4 Qg6 (24... Qc6 $16 25. Re7 (25. Rxa7 Rxa7 26. Qxf8 Rxa2 $16) 25... Rfe8) 25. Rd1 $18 Qxe4 $2 {[#]} (25... Rfb8 {keeps fighting.} 26. Qe7 (26. Rxa7 Qxe4 27. Kh2 Rxa7 $16) 26... Qf6) 26. Rdd7 {White is clearly winning.} Qg6 27. Rxg7 Qxg7 28. Rxg7 Kxg7 29. Qe7+ Rf7 30. Qg5+ Kh8 31. Qe5+ Rg7 32. Nd4 {Accuracy: White = 90%, Black = 25%.} 1-0

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.15"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Kanakaris, Georgios"]
[Black "Koutoukidis, Panagiotis"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A13"]
[WhiteElo "2401"]
[BlackElo "2357"]
[Annotator "NA"]
[PlyCount "63"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[TimeControl "40/5400+30:1800+30"]

1. c4 {[%emt 0:00:00]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 2. g3 {[%emt 0:00:00]} e6 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 3. Bg2 {[%emt 0:00:01]} d5 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 4. Nf3 {[%emt 0:00:18]} dxc4 {[%emt 0:00:02]} 5. Qa4+ {[%emt 0:00:28]} Bd7 {[%emt 0:00:05]} 6. Qxc4 {[%emt 0:00:06]} c5 {[%emt 0:00:04]} 7. Ne5 {[%emt 0:02:01]} Qc8 {[%emt 0:00:24]} 8. Qd3 {[%emt 0:03:37]} Nc6 {[%emt 0:00:47]} 9. Nxd7 {[%emt 0:00:28]} Nxd7 {[%emt 0:02:03]} 10. Nc3 {[%emt 0:01:31]} Nb4 {[%emt 0:16:01]} 11. Qb1 {[%emt 0:00:21]} Be7 {[%emt 0:00:15]} 12. b3 {[%emt 0:05:06]} O-O {[%emt 0:00:39]} 13. O-O {[%emt 0:01:26]} Qc7 {[%emt 0:06:51]} 14. Bb2 {[%emt 0:01:30]} Rad8 {[%emt 0:02:08]} 15. Rd1 {[%emt 0:11:03]} Nc6 {[%emt 0:03:42]} 16. Qc2 {[%emt 0:11:12]} a6 {[%emt 0:06:13]} 17. Rac1 {[%emt 0:00:57]} b5 {[%emt 0:00:30]} 18. Qe4 {[%emt 0:15:33]} Rc8 {[%emt 0:10:05]} 19. e3 {[%emt 0:12:28]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:01:46]} 20. Qb1 {[%emt 0:00:03]} Qb6 {[%emt 0:02:38]} 21. Ne4 {[%emt 0:02:31]} Nd5 {[%emt 0:03:19]} 22. Qa1 {[%emt 0:05:07]} f6 {[%emt 0:08:07]} 23. Bh3 {[%emt 0:01:36]} Na5 {[%emt 0:04:23]} 24. d3 {[%emt 0:01:00]} Rcd8 {[%emt 0:04:30]} 25. Qb1 {[%emt 0:00:23]} f5 {[%emt 0:02:11]} 26. Nc3 {[%emt 0:01:19]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:02:34]} 27. Ne2 {[%emt 0:03:20]} g6 {[%emt 0:01:19]} 28. Ba1 {[%emt 0:00:49]} Rc8 {[%emt 0:03:05]} 29. Qb2 {[%emt 0:02:35]} Rfd8 {[%emt 0:01:22]} 30. Nf4 {[%emt 0:01:40]} Kf7 {[%emt 0:00:05]} 31. Bf1 {[%emt 0:01:16]} Nc6 {[%emt 0:01:38]} 32. Bg2 {[%emt 0:03:29]} 1/2-1/2

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.15"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Ioannidis, Evgenios"]
[Black "Kourkoulos-Arditis, Stamatis"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C15"]
[WhiteElo "2382"]
[BlackElo "2424"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 13,65,25,24,0,75,57,75,75,78,89,122,131,125,127,134,131,127,126,111,113,139,126,135,134,112,101,97,95,88,92,158,146,227,220,320,318,312,295,397,305,289,269,266,273,257,277,586,353,1040,1035,987,-71,956,918]} 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Nge2 Nc6 5. a3 Ba5 6. b4 Bb6 7. Bb2 {C15: French: 3 Nc3 Bb4: Unusual White 4th moves} Nge7 {LiveBook: 21 Games} 8. Qd2 dxe4 $146 (8... O-O $11) ({Predecessor:} 8... O-O 9. Na4 a6 10. Nxb6 cxb6 11. e5 f6 12. exf6 Rxf6 13. Ng3 Ng6 14. h4 Rf7 {½-½ (41) Kovchan,A (2576)-Edouard,R (2639) Biel 2016}) 9. Nxe4 $16 {White is better.} e5 10. dxe5 Bf5 11. Qf4 Bxe4 12. Qxe4 {aiming for c4.} Qd7 13. Ng3 {Hoping for Rd1.} O-O-O {[%csl Gd8][%cal Rd7d2] [#]} 14. Bd3 Bd4 15. Bxd4 Qxd4 16. Qxd4 Rxd4 17. Ne2 Rg4 18. h3 Rxg2 19. Ng3 Nxe5 20. Be4 Rxg3 21. fxg3 f5 ({Black should play} 21... c6) 22. Bg2 h5 (22... Rd8 $16 {is a better defense.} 23. O-O Rd7) 23. O-O $18 h4 (23... Rh6 $142 24. Rae1 Re6) 24. Rae1 N5g6 25. g4 fxg4 26. Rf7 gxh3 27. Bxh3+ Kd8 28. Rxg7 Rh5 29. Be6 Rg5+ $2 {[#]} (29... Ke8 {is a better chance.} 30. Rf1 Ne5) 30. Kh2 Rg3 $2 (30... h3 31. Rd1+ Ke8 32. Bf7+ (32. Bxh3 Kf8 $16) 32... Kf8) 31. Rd1+ Ke8 32. Bf7+ Kf8 {[%mdl 1024] Black has strong compensation.} 33. Rh7 {Accuracy: White = 96%, Black = 55%.} 1-0

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.15"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Skaperdas, Kostantinos"]
[Black "Makka, Evanthia"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A06"]
[WhiteElo "2231"]
[BlackElo "2084"]
[Annotator "NA"]
[PlyCount "50"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[TimeControl "40/5400+30:1800+30"]

1. Nf3 {[%emt 0:00:00]} d5 {[%emt 0:03:43]} 2. e3 {[%emt 0:00:11]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:04:55]} 3. c4 {[%emt 0:00:46]} e6 {[%emt 0:00:30]} 4. Nc3 {[%emt 0:00:14]} Be7 {[%emt 0:01:36]} 5. b3 {[%emt 0:00:51]} O-O {[%emt 0:05:49]} 6. Bb2 {[%emt 0:00:57]} c5 {[%emt 0:01:01]} 7. cxd5 {[%emt 0:00:45]} Nxd5 {[%emt 0:02:45]} 8. h4 {[%emt 0:01:30]} Nxc3 {[%emt 0:06:13]} 9. Bxc3 {[%emt 0:03:21]} Bf6 {[%emt 0:00:18]} 10. Qc2 {[%emt 0:11:28]} Bxc3 {[%emt 0:13:12]} 11. dxc3 {[%emt 0:01:02]} f5 {[%emt 0:20:11]} 12. Bd3 {[%emt 0:31:34]} Nc6 {[%emt 0:02:58]} 13. O-O-O {[%emt 0:01:28]} Qf6 {[%emt 0:00:23]} 14. e4 {[%emt 0:07:29]} g6 {[%emt 0:06:13]} 15. h5 {[%emt 0:02:38]} g5 {[%emt 0:09:40]} 16. exf5 {[%emt 0:00:38]} g4 {[%emt 0:03:17]} 17. Nd2 {[%emt 0:09:23]} exf5 {[%emt 0:00:10]} 18. f4 {[%emt 0:04:01]} a6 {[%emt 0:04:54]} 19. Nc4 {[%emt 0:03:58]} b5 {[%emt 0:00:23]} 20. Nb6 {[%emt 0:02:30]} Rb8 {[%emt 0:00:06]} 21. Nd5 {[%emt 0:01:09]} Qf7 {[%emt 0:00:59]} 22. Rhe1 {[%emt 0:01:54]} Be6 {[%emt 0:02:26]} 23. Nc7 {[%emt 0:04:20]} Bc8 {[%emt 0:05:08]} 24. Nd5 {[%emt 0:01:13]} Be6 {[%emt 0:00:06]} 25. Nc7 {[%emt 0:00:21]} Bc8 {[%emt 0:01:20]} 1/2-1/2

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.16"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Grivas, Efstratios"]
[Black "Kanakaris, Georgios"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E07"]
[WhiteElo "2424"]
[BlackElo "2401"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "104"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 21,104,9,10,12,19,-1,0,-10,-12,-8,-10,-13,-8,-8,-7,-7,19,-8,-4,-18,-14,-39,-41,-33,-12,-59,-63,-67,-74,-81,-76,-90,-90,-151,-48,-47,-47,-50,0,0,0,-269,-262,-331,-325,-327,-308,-489,-372,-474,-474,-463,-272,-260,-260,-251,-269,-278,-277,-277,-277,-277,-277,-276,-268,-256,-256,-249,-247,-246,-239,-994,-918,-1717,-1589,-5073,-2788,-5081,-5073,-5632,-5065,-29982,-29982,-29982,-29983]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. Qd3 Nbd7 6. g3 Be7 7. Bg2 O-O 8. O-O b6 9. cxd5 exd5 10. Bf4 {E07: Closed Catalan: Main Line (5 Nf3 0-0 6 0-0 Nbd7)} Bb7 (10... Re8 11. a3 a5 12. Qc2 Bb7 13. Rfd1 Nf8 14. Rac1 Ng6 15. Bg5 Nd7 16. h4 Bxg5 17. Nxg5 h6 {1-0 (56) Lenderman,A (2560)-Cori Tello,J (2418) Caleta 2010}) 11. Rad1 Re8 {LiveBook: 3 Games} 12. Rfe1 {The position is equal.} Nf8 13. Ne5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 13. e4 Ng6 14. Bd2 dxe4 15. Nxe4 c5 16. Nxf6+ Bxf6 17. Bc3 Rxe1+ 18. Nxe1 Bxg2 19. Nxg2 cxd4 20. Bxd4 Bxd4 21. Qxd4 Qxd4 22. Rxd4 Ne5 23. Rd1 {½-½ (23) Brodt,A (2394)-Razumichin,A (2264) ICCF email 2009}) 13... Ne6 14. Be3 Bd6 15. f4 Qe7 16. Bf2 c5 17. e3 Rad8 18. Qc2 Bb8 19. a3 a6 20. Rd2 b5 21. Qd1 c4 22. Qc2 Qd6 23. g4 Ne4 $1 24. Nxe4 dxe4 25. Bxe4 Bxe4 26. Qxe4 f6 $1 {[%cal Rf6e5]} 27. Bh4 (27. Nc6 $142 Nxf4 28. Qf3 Nh3+ {[%mdl 64] Discovered Attack} 29. Qxh3 Qxc6 30. Bg3) 27... fxe5 (27... Rc8 $17 28. Rf2 c3) 28. Bxd8 $15 Qxd8 29. fxe5 Ng5 30. Qc6 $1 Re6 ({Wrong is} 30... Rxe5 $2 31. dxe5 Qe7 32. Qc8+ Kf7 33. Rd7 $18) (30... Rf8 $5 31. Rf1 $8 Bxe5 $14) 31. Qg2 $2 {[%mdl 8192] [#]} (31. Qa8 $11 {and White has nothing to worry.}) 31... Bxe5 $1 $19 {[%mdl 512]} 32. Rf1 ({Much weaker is} 32. dxe5 {[#]} Qxd2 $1 {[%mdl 512]} 33. Qxd2 Nf3+ 34. Kg2 Nxd2 $19) 32... Bd6 33. Rdf2 {Threatens to win with Qd5.} h6 34. Rf5 (34. Re2 {was necessary.}) 34... Ne4 35. Kh1 Qh4 36. R5f3 Ng3+ (36... Rg6 $142 37. Rh3 Qxg4 38. Qxg4 Rxg4) 37. Rxg3 Bxg3 38. Qxg3 Qxg3 39. hxg3 Rxe3 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KR-KR} 40. Kg2 Rd3 41. Rf2 Rxd4 42. Kh3 Rd6 43. g5 hxg5 44. Kg4 Rd5 45. Kh5 Kh7 46. Rf7 $2 (46. Rc2) 46... Rd2 47. Ra7 Rxb2 48. Rxa6 c3 {[%cal Bc4c3,Bc3c2][%mdl 32]} 49. Kxg5 Ra2 50. Rb6 Rxa3 51. Rxb5 c2 52. Rc5 Ra5 {[%mdl 64] Promotion. Accuracy: White = 36%, Black = 73%.} 0-1

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.16"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Kourkoulos-Arditis, Stamatis"]
[Black "Nikolaidis, Ioannis"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B12"]
[WhiteElo "2424"]
[BlackElo "2564"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "87"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 14,87,41,40,45,37,41,29,35,33,30,10,10,10,27,21,33,0,0,0,22,21,22,25,25,25,29,22,23,20,35,19,37,31,164,166,273,260,283,311,303,286,629,616,719,785,747,746,629,681,649,642,492,487,381,342,793,705,619,539,800,804,776,776,710,710,1078,592,5109,5102,29976,29977,29977,29977,29975,29976]} 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. h4 h6 5. g4 Bd7 6. Nc3 {B12: Caro-Kann: Advance Variation} (6. Be3 Qb6 7. Nd2 e6 8. Nb3 Na6 9. h5 c5 10. dxc5 Nxc5 11. Nf3 Qc7 12. c3 b6 13. Nbd4 a6 {½-½ (56) Nepomniachtchi,I (2767)-Dreev,A (2652) Doha 2016}) 6... e6 7. Be3 c5 8. dxc5 {LiveBook: 10 Games. White is slightly better.} a6 9. f4 Qc7 10. Nf3 Bxc5 11. Bxc5 Qxc5 12. Qd4 Qxd4 13. Nxd4 Nc6 14. Nxc6 $146 Bxc6 15. Bd3 Ne7 16. Ne2 Bb5 17. h5 Bxd3 18. cxd3 Nc6 19. d4 f6 20. Kd2 Rc8 21. Rag1 fxe5 22. fxe5 O-O 23. g5 Rf2 (23... hxg5 $14 24. Rxg5 Ne7) 24. Ke1 $18 Rxe2+ (24... Rf3 {was called for.}) 25. Kxe2 Nxd4+ {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRR-KRN} 26. Kd3 Nf3 27. gxh6 Nxe5+ $2 (27... Nxg1 28. Rxg1 Rc7) 28. Ke3 Rc7 29. hxg7 Rxg7 30. h6 {[#] White threatens h7+ and mate.} Rxg1 31. Rxg1+ {KR-KN} Kh7 32. Rg7+ Kxh6 33. Re7 Kg5 34. Rxe6 Kf5 $2 {[#]} (34... Nc6 35. Rd6 Kf5 36. Rxd5+ Ke6) 35. Re7 d4+ 36. Kd2 b5 37. b3 {[%cal Bb2b3,Bb3a4,Ba4a5][%mdl 32]} Ke4 38. Ra7 Nf3+ 39. Kd1 Kd3 40. Rxa6 Ng5 41. a4 bxa4 42. bxa4 {White mates.} Kc4 43. Rg6 Ne4 44. a5 {Accuracy: White = 77%, Black = 32%.} 1-0

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.16"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Koutoukidis, Panagiotis"]
[Black "Ioannidis, Evgenios"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C55"]
[WhiteElo "2357"]
[BlackElo "2382"]
[Annotator "NA"]
[PlyCount "76"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[TimeControl "40/5400+30:1800+30"]

1. e4 {[%emt 0:00:00]} e5 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 2. Nf3 {[%emt 0:00:00]} Nc6 {[%emt 0:00:09]} 3. Bc4 {[%emt 0:00:17]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:00:28]} 4. d3 {[%emt 0:01:12]} Be7 {[%emt 0:00:26]} 5. O-O {[%emt 0:00:27]} O-O {[%emt 0:00:23]} 6. Re1 {[%emt 0:00:25]} d6 {[%emt 0:00:39]} 7. a4 {[%emt 0:00:08]} h6 {[%emt 0:01:27]} 8. a5 {[%emt 0:01:48]} a6 {[%emt 0:01:17]} 9. c3 {[%emt 0:04:01]} Be6 {[%emt 0:04:43]} 10. Bxe6 {[%emt 0:05:42]} fxe6 {[%emt 0:00:06]} 11. Qb3 {[%emt 0:00:19]} Qd7 {[%emt 0:00:52]} 12. h3 {[%emt 0:01:19]} Nh5 {[%emt 0:05:53]} 13. Be3 {[%emt 0:01:56]} d5 {[%emt 0:08:19]} 14. Ra4 {[%emt 0:11:18]} Rxf3 {[%emt 0:09:35]} 15. gxf3 {[%emt 0:00:38]} d4 {[%emt 0:00:11]} 16. Bc1 {[%emt 0:16:10]} Rf8 {[%emt 0:05:47]} 17. Qd1 {[%emt 0:00:53]} Bh4 {[%emt 0:07:09]} 18. Kg2 {[%emt 0:14:56]} Ne7 $17 {[%emt 0:04:26]} 19. Rg1 {[%emt 0:06:00]} Ng6 {[%emt 0:01:40]} 20. Kf1 {[%emt 0:01:38]} Rf6 {[%emt 0:07:19]} 21. cxd4 {[%emt 0:07:15]} Qf7 {[%emt 0:01:41]} 22. Nd2 {[%emt 0:01:48]} Nhf4 {[%emt 0:03:36]} 23. dxe5 {[%emt 0:07:56]} Nxe5 {[%emt 0:00:10]} 24. d4 {[%emt 0:03:19]} Ned3 {[%emt 0:12:59]} 25. Qc2 {[%emt 0:01:00]} Bxf2 {[%emt 0:05:22]} 26. Rg4 {[%emt 0:00:02]} Qh5 {[%emt 0:01:44]} 27. h4 {[%emt 0:01:10]} Bxh4 {[%emt 0:01:02]} 28. Qxc7 {[%emt 0:02:29]} Bg5 {[%emt 0:00:43]} 29. Kg1 {[%emt 0:00:23]} Nxc1 {[%emt 0:02:31]} 30. Nf1 {[%emt 0:01:03]} Nce2+ {[%emt 0:02:49]} 31. Kf2 {[%emt 0:00:11]} Qh1 {[%emt 0:01:43]} 32. Ra3 {[%emt 0:01:01]} Nc1 {[%emt 0:03:50]} 33. Qc4 {[%emt 0:01:34]} Kh7 {[%emt 0:02:57]} 34. Rc3 {[%emt 0:01:10]} Nfe2 {[%emt 0:00:38]} 35. Rxg5 {[%emt 0:01:33]} hxg5 {[%emt 0:00:14]} 36. Re3 {[%emt 0:01:07]} Qh4+ {[%emt 0:00:47]} 37. Kg2 {[%emt 0:00:13]} g4 {[%emt 0:01:31]} 38. Qc7 {[%emt 0:01:46]} Nf4+ {[%emt 0:00:12]} 0-1

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.16"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Gouloutis, Nikolaos"]
[Black "Skaperdas, Kostantinos"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A06"]
[WhiteElo "2353"]
[BlackElo "2231"]
[Annotator "NA"]
[PlyCount "100"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[TimeControl "40/5400+30:1800+30"]

1. Nf3 {[%emt 0:00:00]} d5 {[%emt 0:00:16]} 2. g3 {[%emt 0:00:00]} g6 {[%emt 0:01:26]} 3. Bg2 {[%emt 0:06:02]} Bg7 {[%emt 0:00:19]} 4. d4 {[%emt 0:00:39]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:00:13]} 5. O-O {[%emt 0:00:06]} O-O {[%emt 0:00:30]} 6. c4 {[%emt 0:00:03]} dxc4 {[%emt 0:00:15]} 7. Na3 {[%emt 0:00:05]} c5 {[%emt 0:00:14]} 8. Nxc4 {[%emt 0:01:38]} Be6 {[%emt 0:00:08]} 9. b3 {[%emt 0:12:12]} cxd4 {[%emt 0:12:58] D77: Fianchetto Grünfeld: 6 0-0: Replies other than 6...c6} (9... Nc6 10. Bb2 cxd4 11. Nxd4 Nxd4 12. Qxd4 Qxd4 13. Bxd4 Nd5 14. Rfd1 Rad8 15. Bxg7 Kxg7 16. Rd3 b5 17. Bxd5 Rxd5 18. Rxd5 Bxd5 {½-½ (28) Malakhov,V (2686)-Matlakov,M (2735) St Petersburg 2017}) 10. Nxd4 {[%emt 0:01:37]} Bd5 {[%emt 0:00:20]} 11. Bb2 {[%emt 0:06:21]} Bxg2 {[%emt 0:02:35]} 12. Kxg2 {[%emt 0:00:04]} Qd5+ {[%emt 0:00:44]} 13. f3 $146 {[%emt 0:03:59]} ({Predecessor:} 13. Nf3 Nc6 14. Bxf6 Qxd1 15. Raxd1 Bxf6 16. Rd7 Rab8 17. Rfd1 {½-½ (41) Quinteros,M-Barreras,A Cienfuegos 1972}) 13... Rd8 {[%emt 0:07:02]} 14. e4 {[%emt 0:24:52]} Qc5 {[%emt 0:09:18]} 15. Ne6 {[%emt 0:00:39]} Rxd1 {[%emt 0:00:21]} 16. Nxc5 {[%emt 0:00:04]} Rxa1 {[%emt 0:01:39]} 17. Rxa1 {[%emt 0:00:12]} b6 {[%emt 0:00:22]} 18. Rd1 {[%emt 0:04:33]} Nc6 {[%emt 0:03:54]} 19. Na6 {[%emt 0:02:24]} Rd8 {[%emt 0:03:03]} 20. Rxd8+ {[%emt 0:01:24]} Nxd8 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 21. Nb8 $14 {[%emt 0:02:58]} Ne8 {[%emt 0:23:07]} 22. Ba3 {[%emt 0:05:41]} e6 {[%emt 0:01:32]} 23. Be7 {[%emt 0:09:04]} Nb7 {[%emt 0:00:20]} 24. a4 {[%emt 0:00:09]} Nc7 {[%emt 0:10:45]} 25. Bd6 {[%emt 0:00:08]} Na8 {[%emt 0:02:42]} 26. e5 {[%emt 0:02:36]} Bf8 {[%emt 0:03:51]} 27. Nd7 {[%emt 0:02:34]} Bxd6 {[%emt 0:03:51]} 28. exd6 {[%emt 0:07:12]} a6 {[%emt 0:05:03]} 29. Ndxb6 {[%emt 0:00:32]} Nxb6 {[%emt 0:01:07]} 30. Nxb6 {[%emt 0:00:03]} Nxd6 {[%emt 0:00:09]} 31. b4 {[%emt 0:00:02]} Ne8 {[%emt 0:01:56]} 32. Nd7 {[%emt 0:01:52]} Nc7 {[%emt 0:00:30]} 33. f4 {[%emt 0:01:04]} f5 {[%emt 0:00:42]} 34. Nc5 {[%emt 0:04:39]} Kf7 {[%emt 0:00:15]} 35. Kf2 {[%emt 0:00:16]} Ke7 {[%emt 0:00:19]} 36. Ke2 {[%emt 0:00:35]} Kd6 {[%emt 0:00:28]} 37. Kd3 {[%emt 0:00:12]} e5 {[%emt 0:01:52]} 38. fxe5+ {[%emt 0:01:52]} Kxe5 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 39. Kc4 {[%emt 0:00:04]} g5 {[%emt 0:01:07]} 40. Nd7+ {[%emt 0:00:00]} Kd6 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 41. Nf8 {[%emt 0:12:12]} h6 {[%emt 0:04:52]} 42. Kd4 {[%emt 0:00:15]} Ke7 {[%emt 0:11:10]} 43. Ng6+ {[%emt 0:00:04]} Kf6 {[%emt 0:04:45]} 44. Nf8 {[%emt 0:00:13]} Ke7 {[%emt 0:00:02]} 45. Ng6+ {[%emt 0:00:09]} Kf6 {[%emt 0:00:11]} 46. Ne5 {[%emt 0:00:59]} Ne6+ {[%emt 0:01:04]} 47. Kd5 {[%emt 0:00:05]} Nc7+ {[%emt 0:00:09]} 48. Kd6 {[%emt 0:00:04]} Ne8+ {[%emt 0:00:07]} 49. Kd5 {[%emt 0:00:05]} Nc7+ {[%emt 0:00:04]} 50. Kd4 {[%emt 0:00:03]} Ne6+ {[%emt 0:00:05]} 1/2-1/2

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.16"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Makka, Evanthia"]
[Black "Mastrovasilis, Athanasios"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B30"]
[WhiteElo "2084"]
[BlackElo "2510"]
[Annotator "ChessBase"]
[PlyCount "56"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[TimeControl "40/5400+30:1800+30"]

1. e4 {[%emt 0:00:00]} c5 {[%emt 0:02:57]} 2. Nf3 {[%emt 0:00:00]} Nc6 {[%emt 0:01:27]} 3. Bb5 {[%emt 0:02:08]} e6 {[%emt 0:02:15]} 4. Bxc6 {[%emt 0:05:02]} bxc6 {[%emt 0:03:32]} 5. d3 {[%emt 0:01:49]} Ne7 {[%emt 0:03:44]} 6. Ng5 {[%emt 0:01:46]} h6 {[%emt 0:13:30]} 7. Qh5 {[%emt 0:11:09]} g6 {[%emt 0:01:46]} 8. Qh3 {[%emt 0:00:26]} Bg7 {[%emt 0:01:00]} 9. Nf3 {[%emt 0:00:06]} e5 {[%emt 0:05:14]} 10. O-O {[%emt 0:04:42]} d6 {[%emt 0:01:05]} 11. Qg3 {[%emt 0:04:56]} g5 {[%emt 0:06:28]} 12. h4 {[%emt 0:11:52]} f6 {[%emt 0:16:27]} 13. Nc3 {[%emt 0:08:17]} Be6 {[%emt 0:06:00]} 14. Ne2 {[%emt 0:09:51]} Qd7 {[%emt 0:01:26]} 15. c3 {[%emt 0:08:23]} O-O-O {[%emt 0:11:26]} 16. d4 {[%emt 0:02:22]} f5 {[%emt 0:04:23]} 17. hxg5 {[%emt 0:10:32]} fxe4 {[%emt 0:01:38]} 18. Nxe5 {[%emt 0:13:47]} dxe5 {[%emt 0:00:25]} 19. dxe5 {[%emt 0:00:35]} Nf5 {[%emt 0:00:28]} 20. Qf4 {[%emt 0:00:31]} hxg5 {[%emt 0:00:51]} 21. Qxe4 {[%emt 0:00:40]} Rh4 {[%emt 0:02:15]} 22. Qc2 {[%emt 0:00:44]} Bxe5 {[%emt 0:03:11]} 23. f3 {[%emt 0:00:53]} Qh7 {[%emt 0:02:03]} 24. Kf2 {[%emt 0:00:29]} Rh2 {[%emt 0:01:19]} 25. Rg1 {[%emt 0:00:33]} Qh4+ {[%emt 0:00:53]} 26. Kf1 {[%emt 0:00:11]} Ng3+ {[%emt 0:01:10]} 27. Nxg3 {[%emt 0:00:16]} Bxg3 {[%emt 0:00:48]} 28. b3 {[%emt 0:00:23]} Qc4+ {[%emt 0:00:53]} 0-1

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.17"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Nikolaidis, Ioannis"]
[Black "Koutoukidis, Panagiotis"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D37"]
[WhiteElo "2564"]
[BlackElo "2357"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "60"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 21,60,-11,-11,-11,-11,-11,-11,-14,-14,-7,-8,-8,-8,-7,-11,-18,0,0,0,0,9,7,6,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bf4 O-O 6. e3 b6 7. Rc1 Bb7 8. cxd5 {D37: Queen's Gambit Declined: 5 Bf4} (8. Bd3 dxc4 9. Bxc4 a6 10. O-O b5 11. Bd3 Nbd7 12. a4 b4 13. Nb1 c5 14. Nbd2 cxd4 15. Bc7 Qe8 16. exd4 {1-0 (57) Lalith,B (2575)-Melkumyan,H (2650) Abu Dhabi 2016}) 8... Nxd5 9. Nxd5 Qxd5 10. a3 Qa5+ 11. Qd2 Qxd2+ {LiveBook: 8 Games. The position is equal.} 12. Kxd2 c5 13. Bd3 $146 ({Predecessor:} 13. dxc5 bxc5 14. Bb5 Rd8+ 15. Ke2 Nd7 {½-½ (29) Sifre Calafat,F (1945)-Reina Guerra,E (1927) ICCF email 2013}) 13... Nd7 14. Ke2 Rac8 15. Bb5 Rfd8 16. Rhd1 Nf6 17. dxc5 Rxd1 18. Kxd1 {[#] And now c6 would win.} Rxc5 (18... bxc5 {is interesting.} 19. Ke2 Nd5 20. Be5 Nb6 21. Rd1 a6) 19. Rxc5 Bxc5 20. Ke2 Kf8 21. Bd3 Ke7 22. b4 Bd6 23. Bxd6+ Kxd6 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KBN-KBN} 24. Ng5 Ke7 25. f3 h6 26. Nh3 e5 27. Nf2 Bd5 28. Kd2 Be6 29. f4 exf4 30. exf4 Kd6 {Accuracy: White = 83%, Black = 85%.} 1/2-1/2

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.17"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Mastrovasilis, Athanasios"]
[Black "Gouloutis, Nikolaos"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A21"]
[WhiteElo "2510"]
[BlackElo "2353"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "91"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,91,0,0,0,0,0,9,18,20,0,0,0,-5,-7,54,54,56,35,61,33,29,25,32,44,60,52,92,91,116,112,114,117,108,100,112,93,120,127,130,129,131,134,134,134,143,152,140,150,139,128,163,161,160,158,153,156,166,147,139,140,161,154,261,261,260,260,322,316,330,322,347,342,519,324,313,311,347,321,638,638,638,638,5139,5123]} 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Bb4 3. g3 d6 (3... Bxc3 4. bxc3 d6 5. Bg2 Ne7 6. Nf3 c5 7. d4 f6 8. dxc5 dxc5 9. Qxd8+ Kxd8 10. Ba3 Nd7 11. Nd2 Rb8 12. Ne4 b6 13. Nd6 Ba6 {1-0 (44) Lalith,B (2529)-Gordievsky,D (2638) Biel 2018}) 4. Qa4+ $146 ({Predecessor:} 4. Bg2 Nc6 5. Nd5 Bc5 6. d3 Nge7 7. e3 O-O 8. Ne2 Nxd5 9. cxd5 Ne7 10. d4 exd4 11. Nxd4 {½-½ (77) Mahdavirad,M (2294)-Tabatabaei,M (2200) Tabriz 2013}) 4... Nc6 5. Nd5 Bc5 6. b4 {A21: English Opening: 1...e5 2 Nc3} Bd4 7. Rb1 Bd7 8. Bg2 {The position is equal.} Nce7 9. Qb3 Nxd5 10. Bxd5 c6 11. Bg2 Rb8 (11... Bb6 $11) 12. Nf3 $14 Bb6 13. Bb2 Bc7 14. c5 Qe7 15. cxd6 Bxd6 16. Qe3 {[%cal Rf3e5]} Bf5 17. Rc1 {[%cal Rf3e5]} Nf6 18. Bxe5 O-O 19. Bxd6 Qxd6 20. Qc5 Qd7 21. O-O Rfe8 22. Rfe1 ({Resist} 22. Qxa7 Ra8 $11) 22... Ne4 23. Qd4 Rbd8 24. Qxd7 ({But not} 24. Qxa7 $6 Nxd2 25. Qb6 Bg4 $14) 24... Rxd7 25. Nh4 Bg6 26. d3 Nd6 27. Nxg6 hxg6 28. e3 g5 29. h3 Ra8 30. Rc5 f6 31. d4 Kf8 32. a4 a6 33. d5 cxd5 34. Rxd5 Ke7 35. Red1 Rc8 {[#]} (35... Rad8 $16 36. Bf3 g6) 36. h4 $1 $18 g4 37. R5d4 f5 38. e4 {e5 is the strong threat.} fxe4 39. Bxe4 Rdd8 40. Bg2 Nf7 (40... Rc7 {was called for.} 41. Rxg4 Kf8 42. Rf4+ Ke8) 41. Re1+ Kf8 42. Rxg4 b5 43. a5 Rc4 $2 (43... Rd6 44. Rge4 Rcd8) 44. Rxc4 {White is clearly winning.} bxc4 {[#]} 45. b5 $1 Rd7 (45... axb5 46. a6) 46. Bc6 {Accuracy: White = 81%, Black = 31%.} 1-0

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.17"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Grivas, Efstratios"]
[Black "Makka, Evanthia"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A13"]
[WhiteElo "2424"]
[BlackElo "2084"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "81"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 19,81,0,-5,-16,0,-24,10,9,17,16,6,20,43,41,42,46,90,91,77,42,40,41,34,16,21,6,24,22,35,0,20,-12,45,43,89,92,136,86,145,79,171,160,191,190,443,144,156,168,218,218,285,284,628,597,660,659,650,650,648,644,637,622,645,644]} 1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 e6 3. g3 dxc4 4. Qa4+ Bd7 5. Qxc4 c5 6. Bg2 {A13: English Opening: 1...e6} Nc6 7. O-O Nf6 8. b3 Be7 9. Bb2 Rc8 10. d3 O-O {LiveBook: 4 Games} 11. Nbd2 b5 12. Qc3 Kh8 $146 ({Predecessor:} 12... Nb4 13. a3 Nbd5 {½-½ (59) Geller,J (2505)-Riazantsev,A (2659) Sochi 2017}) 13. Rfc1 Rg8 14. Ne5 Nxe5 15. Qxe5 Bc6 16. Bxc6 Rxc6 17. a4 a6 18. axb5 axb5 19. Ra7 (19. b4 $5) 19... Nd5 $1 {And now ...Bf6 would win.} 20. Qh5 f6 21. Nf3 Rc7 22. Ra5 Rb7 23. Rca1 e5 24. Bc1 $40 {[%mdl 128] White has some attack.} Nc3 25. Nd2 (25. Nh4 {is interesting.} g6 26. Qf3 Qd5 27. Qxd5 Nxd5 28. Ra7) 25... Qd4 (25... Qd5 $11) 26. Qf3 $14 Rd7 {[#]} 27. Kg2 $1 Qd5 28. Qxd5 Rxd5 (28... Nxd5 $142 29. Bb2 Rb8) 29. Kf1 ({White should play} 29. Ra7) 29... Bd8 {[#]} (29... Rb8 $16) 30. Ra7 $1 $18 Rd6 31. Bb2 Nd5 $2 (31... b4 32. Bxc3 bxc3) 32. Rb7 $2 (32. Ne4 $18 {is the precise move to win.} Re6 33. Rd7 (33. Nxc5 Rc6 $16)) 32... Rb6 33. Rd7 Nc7 34. Ne4 {aiming for Nd6.} Rf8 35. Nxc5 Rc6 $2 (35... Rb8 36. Ra7 b4 37. Rxd8 {[%mdl 64] Remove Defender} Rfxd8) 36. Nb7 {White is clearly winning.} Ne6 37. Nxd8 Rxd8 38. Rxd8+ Nxd8 39. Ra8 {[%cal Ra8d8]} Rd6 40. Ba3 Rd7 {[#]} 41. Be7 $1 {[%mdl 512] Accuracy: White = 47%, Black = 25%.} 1-0

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.17"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Kanakaris, Georgios"]
[Black "Ioannidis, Evgenios"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A13"]
[WhiteElo "2401"]
[BlackElo "2382"]
[Annotator "NA"]
[PlyCount "75"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[TimeControl "40/5400+30:1800+30"]

1. Nf3 {[%emt 0:00:00]} e6 {[%emt 0:00:03]} 2. c4 {[%emt 0:01:09]} d5 {[%emt 0:01:22]} 3. e3 {[%emt 0:00:09]} c5 {[%emt 0:00:51]} 4. d4 {[%emt 0:01:05]} a6 {[%emt 0:00:53]} 5. cxd5 {[%emt 0:00:40]} exd5 {[%emt 0:01:31]} 6. Nc3 {[%emt 0:02:00]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:01:00]} 7. Be2 {[%emt 0:02:36]} Be7 {[%emt 0:08:09]} 8. dxc5 {[%emt 0:00:39]} Bxc5 {[%emt 0:00:10]} 9. O-O {[%emt 0:00:19]} O-O {[%emt 0:00:17]} 10. b3 {[%emt 0:04:19]} Nc6 {[%emt 0:07:00]} 11. Bb2 {[%emt 0:00:10]} Be6 {[%emt 0:01:32]} 12. Na4 {[%emt 0:08:17]} Bd6 {[%emt 0:03:20] LiveBook: 4 Games} 13. Nd4 {[%emt 0:12:43]} Ne4 {[%emt 0:21:52]} 14. Rc1 $11 {[%emt 0:12:55]} Ne5 {[%emt 0:19:30]} 15. f4 {[%emt 0:01:36]} Nd7 {[%emt 0:08:18]} 16. Bf3 {[%emt 0:11:57]} Ndf6 {[%emt 0:01:14]} 17. Nc3 {[%emt 0:00:35]} Nxc3 {[%emt 0:02:57]} 18. Rxc3 {[%emt 0:02:24]} Bd7 {[%emt 0:02:33]} 19. Rd3 {[%emt 0:06:04]} Re8 {[%emt 0:01:46]} 20. Qd2 {[%emt 0:07:22]} Rc8 {[%emt 0:03:12]} 21. Rd1 {[%emt 0:01:10]} Qe7 {[%emt 0:01:16]} 22. Qf2 {[%emt 0:02:51]} Bc5 {[%emt 0:03:42]} 23. Qg3 {[%emt 0:02:22]} Ba7 {[%emt 0:02:06]} 24. h3 {[%emt 0:01:37]} Qf8 {[%emt 0:00:30]} 25. a4 {[%emt 0:05:23]} Ne4 {[%emt 0:00:30]} 26. Bxe4 {[%emt 0:00:04]} dxe4 {[%emt 0:00:31]} 27. R3d2 {[%emt 0:00:19]} f6 {[%emt 0:00:41]} 28. Nb5 {[%emt 0:05:05]} Bxb5 {[%emt 0:01:05]} 29. axb5 {[%emt 0:00:04]} Rcd8 {[%emt 0:03:55]} 30. bxa6 {[%emt 0:00:52]} bxa6 {[%emt 0:00:15]} 31. Rd7 {[%emt 0:00:33]} Bc5 {[%emt 0:00:56]} 32. Kh2 {[%emt 0:03:21]} Rxd7 {[%emt 0:00:36]} 33. Rxd7 {[%emt 0:00:06]} Rd8 {[%emt 0:01:16]} 34. Qg4 {[%emt 0:01:39]} Rxd7 {[%emt 0:00:23]} 35. Qxd7 {[%emt 0:00:11]} Bxe3 {[%emt 0:00:34]} 36. Qe6+ {[%emt 0:00:35]} Kh8 {[%emt 0:00:15]} 37. Qxe4 {[%emt 0:00:08]} Bc5 {[%emt 0:00:22]} 38. Qc4 {[%emt 0:01:09]} 1/2-1/2

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.17"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Skaperdas, Kostantinos"]
[Black "Kourkoulos-Arditis, Stamatis"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A04"]
[WhiteElo "2231"]
[BlackElo "2424"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "98"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 11,98,41,52,8,7,18,23,24,49,39,61,20,37,-6,0,-10,0,-8,-8,-22,-18,-69,-69,-58,-59,-63,-55,-83,-56,-99,-34,-60,-45,-60,-43,-45,-54,-57,-47,-60,-40,-84,-54,-80,-90,-154,-157,-151,-144,-145,-147,-147,-145,-178,-180,-159,-179,-156,-147,-168,-140,-145,-74,-195,-200,-250,-257,-254,-253,-248,-238,-455,-454,-444,-446,-440,-424,-585,-460,-459,-360,-351,-355,-674,-674,-640,-633,-620,-606]} 1. Nf3 g6 2. e4 Bg7 3. d4 d6 4. Bc4 a6 5. O-O e6 (5... b5 6. Bb3 e6 7. Re1 Ne7 8. c3 Bb7 9. Nbd2 Nd7 10. Nf1 O-O 11. h4 h6 12. Ng3 c5 13. Bf4 cxd4 14. cxd4 Nb6 15. Rc1 Qd7 16. Qd2 Kh7 17. Qa5 Qd8 18. Qa3 d5 19. Bc7 {1-0 (19) Dubov,D (2703)-Sviridov,V (2551) Sochi 2018}) 6. Bg5 {B06: Modern Defence} Ne7 {LiveBook: 5 Games} 7. Qd2 h6 8. Be3 {The position is equal.} Nd7 9. Bd3 c5 10. c4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 10. c3 b6 11. a4 Bb7 12. Na3 cxd4 13. cxd4 Nf6 {0-1 (30) Wichmann,C (2360)-Pancevski,F (2484) Dresden 2013}) 10... Nc6 {[%cal Rc5d4]} 11. d5 exd5 12. exd5 Nce5 13. Nxe5 Nxe5 14. Be2 Qh4 15. g3 (15. Bf4 {is interesting.} O-O 16. Nc3 f5 17. Rfd1 Nf7 18. Be3) 15... Qf6 $36 {[%mdl 2048] And now ...Nf3+ would win. Black fights for an advantage.} 16. f3 (16. Kg2 $11) 16... Bh3 $15 17. Rf2 g5 18. Nc3 Qg6 $1 19. f4 gxf4 20. Bxf4 O-O (20... h5 $17) 21. Bxe5 Bxe5 22. Bd3 Qg5 23. Qxg5+ hxg5 24. Bf5 Bxf5 25. Rxf5 f6 26. Ne4 Rae8 27. Kg2 Bxb2 {[%mdl 64] Discovered Attack} 28. Rb1 (28. Re1 $142) 28... Rxe4 $17 29. Rxb2 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRR-KRR} Rf7 $1 30. Rb6 Rxc4 31. Rxd6 Kg7 $1 32. Rf2 Rd4 33. Rc2 c4 34. a4 Rc7 35. a5 c3 {...Rd2+ is the strong threat.} 36. Kf3 Kf7 ({Better is} 36... Rc5 {Threatens to win with ...Kg6.} 37. Ke3 Rdxd5 38. Rxd5 Rxd5 39. Rxc3 Rxa5 40. Rc7+ Kg6 41. Rxb7 Ra2) 37. Rd8 {[#]} (37. Ke3 $17 {was worth a try.} Ra4 38. Rf2) 37... Ke7 $1 $19 {[%cal Re7d8]} 38. Rh8 Kd6 ({Don't play} 38... Rxd5 39. Rh7+ Kd8 40. Rxc7 $17) 39. Rd8+ {[#]} Ke5 $1 40. Re2+ Kf5 41. d6 $2 (41. Rf2) 41... Rd3+ 42. Kf2 Rc5 {Strongly threatening ...c2.} 43. Rc2 Rxa5 44. Rb8 Rb5 45. Ke2 Rxd6 46. Rxc3 Re5+ 47. Kf1 $2 (47. Re3 b5 48. h3) 47... Rd1+ {Black is clearly winning.} 48. Kf2 Rd2+ 49. Kf1 Rb5 {Accuracy: White = 34%, Black = 83%.} 0-1

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.18"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Kourkoulos-Arditis, Stamatis"]
[Black "Mastrovasilis, Athanasios"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A06"]
[WhiteElo "2424"]
[BlackElo "2510"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "82"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 20,82,40,24,35,25,33,31,21,9,43,34,48,34,47,31,42,17,26,24,38,37,37,35,30,33,56,27,29,13,12,-40,-25,-56,-20,-71,-54,-124,-85,-169,-51,-150,-116,-131,-124,-138,-138,-116,-112,-270,-262,-262,-255,-251,-235,-306,-297,-272,-242,-410,-394,-407,-409,-763,-756]} 1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 c6 3. Bg2 Bf5 4. d3 e6 5. O-O Nf6 6. Nh4 Bg4 {A07: Réti Opening: New York and Capablanca Systems} 7. h3 Bh5 8. Qe1 Be7 9. f4 Nfd7 10. Nf3 Bxf3 11. Bxf3 {LiveBook: 7 Games} e5 (11... O-O 12. e4 dxe4 13. dxe4 e5 14. Nd2 {0-1 (41) Nisipeanu,L (2672)-Wojtaszek,R (2737) Antalya 2017}) 12. e4 dxe4 13. dxe4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 13. Qxe4 exf4 14. Bxf4 {0-1 (60) Karasev,V (2436)-Doroshkievich,V (2388) St Petersburg 2002}) 13... Na6 14. Nd2 Nb6 15. Nb3 Qc7 16. Qe2 Nc5 17. Be3 Nbd7 18. Qf2 {[%cal Rb3c5]} Nxb3 19. axb3 b6 20. c3 Bc5 21. Bxc5 Nxc5 22. b4 Nd7 23. f5 O-O 24. Be2 a5 25. b5 (25. bxa5 $11 Rxa5 26. Rxa5 bxa5 27. Bc4) 25... Nf6 $15 26. Ra4 Rad8 27. Rc4 (27. Qe3 $11) 27... c5 $17 28. g4 (28. Qe3 $15) 28... h6 29. h4 (29. Qe3 $17 {is a better defense.}) 29... Qe7 (29... Rd2 $19 30. b4 axb4 31. cxb4 Qd8) 30. Bf3 (30. b4 $15) 30... Qd7 31. Ra4 Qd2 32. Qxd2 Rxd2 33. Rf2 Rfd8 34. b4 $2 {[#]} (34. Ra1 $17 {keeps fighting.}) 34... cxb4 $19 35. cxb4 R2d4 36. Re2 Rc8 ({Don't do} 36... axb4 37. Rb2 $17) 37. Kf2 Rcc4 ({Not} 37... Rxb4 38. Rxb4 axb4 39. Re3 $19) (37... axb4 38. Rb2 $17) 38. Ra1 Rxb4 {[%cal Rf6e4]} 39. Rae1 $2 {[#]} (39. Rc1 {was necessary.}) 39... Nd7 40. g5 Nc5 41. f6 (41. Rg1 $142 hxg5 42. hxg5) 41... Nd3+ {Accuracy: White = 27%, Black = 69%.} 0-1

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.18"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Ioannidis, Evgenios"]
[Black "Nikolaidis, Ioannis"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E32"]
[WhiteElo "2382"]
[BlackElo "2564"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "67"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 17,67,35,26,35,30,18,93,85,67,62,88,87,94,101,100,50,62,46,68,23,25,31,23,-7,51,58,54,0,0,0,0,0,28,29,48,20,80,17,54,22,23,12,20,0,0,0,19,0,20,0,20,0]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 O-O 5. e4 {[%cal Be2e4,Be4e5][%mdl 32]} d6 6. e5 Nfd7 {E32: Nimzo-Indian: Classical (4 Qc2): 4...0-0} 7. Nf3 c5 8. exd6 cxd4 9. Nxd4 Bxd6 {LiveBook: 3 Games} 10. Be3 Nc6 11. O-O-O $146 {[#] Black must now prevent Nxc6.} ({Predecessor:} 11. Nxc6 bxc6 12. O-O-O Qc7 13. Ne4 Be5 14. Ng5 {½-½ (46) Pacher,M (2403)-Babula,V (2572) Slovakia 2011}) 11... Be5 (11... Bc5 $11) 12. Nxc6 $16 bxc6 13. f4 Bxc3 14. Qxc3 Qc7 15. Bd3 c5 16. Qc2 Nf6 17. Rhg1 e5 18. Rgf1 Bg4 19. Rde1 Rfe8 20. h3 e4 ({Better is} 20... exf4 $11 21. Bd2 Rxe1+ 22. Bxe1 Bh5) 21. Be2 $1 $36 {[%mdl 2048] White has good play.} Bxe2 22. Rxe2 (22. Qxe2 $14 Qc6 23. Rd1) 22... Nh5 $11 23. Rd2 Ng3 24. Rfd1 Nf5 (24... Qa5 $5 {[%cal Ra5a2]}) 25. Qc3 Nd4 26. g3 Qc8 (26... Rad8 $11) 27. g4 (27. Bxd4 $16 cxd4 28. Rxd4) 27... Qa6 28. Kb1 Qh6 29. f5 Qh4 {The position is equal.} 30. Bf2 Qh6 {[#] And now ...e3 would win.} 31. Be3 Qh4 32. Bf2 Qh6 {Hoping for ...e3.} 33. Be3 Qh4 34. Bf2 {Accuracy: White = 38%, Black = 59%.} 1/2-1/2

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.18"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Koutoukidis, Panagiotis"]
[Black "Skaperdas, Kostantinos"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C15"]
[WhiteElo "2357"]
[BlackElo "2231"]
[Annotator "NA"]
[PlyCount "63"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[TimeControl "40/5400+30:1800+30"]

1. e4 {[%emt 0:00:00]} e6 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 2. d4 {[%emt 0:00:00]} d5 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 3. Nc3 {[%emt 0:00:00]} Bb4 {[%emt 0:00:02]} 4. Nge2 {[%emt 0:00:00]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:00:09]} 5. e5 {[%emt 0:00:07]} Nfd7 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 6. f4 {[%emt 0:00:36]} O-O {[%emt 0:00:18]} 7. Be3 {[%emt 0:01:36]} c5 {[%emt 0:07:43]} 8. dxc5 {[%emt 0:11:33]} Nc6 {[%emt 0:04:32]} 9. a3 {[%emt 0:15:06]} Bxc5 {[%emt 0:00:29]} 10. Qd2 {[%emt 0:04:30]} Qb6 {[%emt 0:23:08]} 11. Bxc5 {[%emt 0:00:13]} Qxc5 {[%emt 0:04:33]} 12. O-O-O {[%emt 0:02:57]} Nb6 {[%emt 0:09:40]} 13. Nd4 {[%emt 0:00:42]} Nc4 {[%emt 0:07:31]} (13... Nxd4 $11 {keeps the balance.} 14. Qxd4 Qxd4 15. Rxd4 Bd7) 14. Bxc4 {[%emt 0:00:45]} Qxc4 {[%emt 0:00:06]} 15. b3 {[%emt 0:10:12]} Qc5 {[%emt 0:07:10]} 16. Kb2 {[%emt 0:00:13]} Bd7 $11 {[%emt 0:01:29]} 17. Nxc6 {[%emt 0:04:20]} Bxc6 {[%emt 0:03:08]} 18. Qd4 {[%emt 0:01:00]} b6 {[%emt 0:01:08]} 19. Rhe1 {[%emt 0:01:50]} Rac8 {[%emt 0:00:19]} 20. g4 {[%emt 0:00:50]} Rc7 {[%emt 0:00:49]} 21. g5 {[%emt 0:02:41]} Rfc8 {[%emt 0:02:47]} 22. Re3 {[%emt 0:00:10]} a5 {[%emt 0:09:16]} 23. Rd2 {[%emt 0:04:39]} Be8 {[%emt 0:02:24]} 24. Rh3 {[%emt 0:03:51]} Qxd4 {[%emt 0:02:25]} 25. Rxd4 {[%emt 0:00:13]} f6 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 26. exf6 {[%emt 0:06:35]} Bg6 {[%emt 0:00:36]} 27. fxg7 {[%emt 0:01:04]} Kxg7 {[%emt 0:01:18]} 28. Re3 {[%emt 0:01:37]} Bf5 {[%emt 0:01:45]} 29. a4 {[%emt 0:06:29]} Kg6 {[%emt 0:01:16]} 30. Rg3 {[%emt 0:02:57]} Kh5 {[%emt 0:03:34]} 31. Rd2 {[%emt 0:00:15]} Kg6 {[%emt 0:01:30]} 32. Re3 {[%emt 0:01:04]} 1/2-1/2

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.18"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Gouloutis, Nikolaos"]
[Black "Grivas, Efstratios"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D31"]
[WhiteElo "2353"]
[BlackElo "2424"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "103"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,103,18,10,0,0,0,0,-1,3,0,32,38,43,35,36,34,28,34,29,33,45,50,62,35,43,42,45,45,60,62,51,42,42,43,81,33,60,47,60,33,53,54,28,0,0,0,129,130,137,119,172,172,193,205,184,180,283,121,216,235,396,245,228,170,962,954,911,0,0,-1959,72,91,80,98,91,112,107,94,100,100,99,104,117,85,81,39,39,39,39,39,434,428,422,328,29984,29985]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 a6 4. c5 (4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bf4 Nf6 6. e3 Bd6 7. Bg5 Be6 8. Bd3 Nbd7 9. f4 h6 10. Bh4 g5 11. fxg5 hxg5 12. Bxg5 Rxh2 13. Rxh2 Bxh2 {1-0 (69) Yu,Y (2762)-Fedoseev,V (2707) Danzhou 2018}) 4... Nc6 5. Nf3 Nge7 6. Bf4 {D31: Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Slav without ...Nf6 (+ Marshall Gambit and Noteboom) and Exchange Variation lines without ...Nf6} Ng6 7. e3 $146 ({Predecessor:} 7. Be3 b6 8. cxb6 cxb6 9. h4 Bd6 10. h5 Nge7 11. h6 g6 {1-0 (50) Alekhine,A-Rubinstein,A The Hague 1921}) 7... Nxf4 8. exf4 {The position is equal.} b6 9. b4 Be7 10. Rb1 O-O 11. Bd3 Bf6 12. Ne2 bxc5 13. bxc5 a5 14. Bb5 Nb8 15. O-O Ba6 16. Qa4 Bxb5 17. Rxb5 Qd7 18. Rfb1 Qc6 19. Nc3 {Rxb8 is the strong threat.} Qa6 20. g3 Nc6 21. Kg2 Rfc8 22. a3 h6 23. h4 h5 24. f5 Ne7 $1 25. fxe6 Qxe6 26. Rxa5 Rxa5 27. Qxa5 Qf5 (27... Ng6 $1 $11 28. Kg1 Nf4) 28. Qa6 Rd8 29. Qa7 Qc8 (29... Nc6 $16 30. Qa4 (30. Qxc7 Rc8 $14) 30... Ne7) 30. Nb5 $18 Rd7 {With the idea ...c6.} 31. Qa4 Rd8 32. Qa5 Qf5 (32... Rd7 $142 33. Re1 g6) 33. Re1 (33. Rb3 $18 {is the precise move to win.}) 33... Rb8 (33... Rc8 $16 {was called for.} 34. Qa6 Qd7) 34. a4 $1 ({Weaker is} 34. Nxc7 Rb3 $14) (34. Qxc7 Rxb5 35. Rxe7 Bxe7 $14) 34... c6 $2 (34... Rc8 {keeps fighting.} 35. Qa6 Qd7) 35. Nd6 Qc2 36. Rf1 g6 $2 (36... Rb3) 37. Qc7 Rb3 38. Ne8 $2 ({White should try} 38. Qd8+ $18 Kh7 39. Qf8 Rxf3 40. Qxf7+ Bg7 41. Qxf3) 38... Rxf3 $1 $11 39. Qd8 $2 {[%mdl 8192] [#]} (39. Nxf6+ $11 Rxf6 40. Qxe7) 39... Kh7 $2 (39... Rxg3+ $1 $19 {[%mdl 512]} 40. Kh2 (40. Kxg3 Nf5+) 40... Bxh4 41. Nf6+ {[%mdl 64] Discovered Attack (Double check)} Kg7 42. Ne8+ Kh7 43. Qxe7 Bxe7 44. Kxg3 Qxa4) 40. Nxf6+ $16 Rxf6 41. Qxe7 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KQR-KQR} Kg7 {[#]} 42. a5 $1 {[%cal Ra5a6]} Re6 43. Qb7 {Hoping for a6.} Qe4+ 44. Kg1 g5 {[#]} 45. Qb1 $1 {[%cal Rb1e4]} ({But not} 45. hxg5 $6 h4 $11) 45... Qg4 46. Qd1 {And now Qxg4 would win.} Re2 47. Re1 Ra2 48. Qc1 $36 {[%mdl 2048] Black must now prevent Re5. White is more active.} gxh4 49. Re5 $1 {[%cal Re5g5] Strongly threatening Rg5+.} f6 $2 {[%mdl 8192]} (49... Qf3 $1 $14 50. Qg5+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} Kh7 51. Qxh5+ Qxh5 52. Rxh5+ Kg6 53. Rxh4 Rxa5) 50. Re7+ $18 Kf8 51. Ra7 {Threatening mate with Qh6+.} Kg8 $2 (51... Qg6 $18 52. Qf4 Ra1+ 53. Kg2 Qe4+ 54. Qxe4 dxe4 55. gxh4 Ra4) 52. Qb1 {Accuracy: White = 54%, Black = 45%.} 1-0

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.18"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Makka, Evanthia"]
[Black "Kanakaris, Georgios"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A49"]
[WhiteElo "2084"]
[BlackElo "2401"]
[Annotator "NA"]
[PlyCount "96"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[TimeControl "40/5400+30:1800+30"]

1. d4 {[%emt 0:00:00]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 2. Nf3 {[%emt 0:00:00]} g6 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 3. g3 {[%emt 0:00:54]} Bg7 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 4. Bg2 {[%emt 0:00:11]} O-O {[%emt 0:00:06]} 5. O-O {[%emt 0:00:12]} d6 {[%emt 0:00:06]} 6. b3 {[%emt 0:00:37]} e5 {[%emt 0:02:58]} 7. dxe5 {[%emt 0:06:05]} dxe5 {[%emt 0:00:14]} 8. Qxd8 {[%emt 0:06:11]} Rxd8 {[%emt 0:00:24]} 9. Bb2 {[%emt 0:00:16]} e4 {[%emt 0:03:29]} 10. Nfd2 {[%emt 0:04:09]} Bf5 {[%emt 0:03:22]} 11. Nc4 {[%emt 0:02:16]} Nc6 {[%emt 0:01:22]} 12. Nba3 {[%emt 0:11:46]} Nd5 {[%emt 0:20:26]} 13. Bxg7 {[%emt 0:08:37]} Kxg7 {[%emt 0:00:05]} 14. Rfe1 {[%emt 0:01:47]} Nc3 {[%emt 0:04:27]} 15. Ne3 {[%emt 0:01:50]} Nd4 $15 {[%emt 0:11:10]} 16. Kf1 {[%emt 0:15:59]} h5 {[%emt 0:28:53]} 17. h3 {[%emt 0:06:30]} a6 {[%emt 0:08:37]} 18. g4 {[%emt 0:13:33]} hxg4 {[%emt 0:00:05]} 19. hxg4 {[%emt 0:00:04]} Be6 {[%emt 0:00:07]} 20. Nb1 {[%emt 0:02:25]} Nxb1 {[%emt 0:04:25]} 21. Raxb1 {[%emt 0:00:07]} f5 {[%emt 0:00:04]} 22. c3 {[%emt 0:04:19]} Nb5 {[%emt 0:00:12]} 23. gxf5 {[%emt 0:02:35]} gxf5 {[%emt 0:00:05]} 24. f4 {[%emt 0:05:15]} Kf6 {[%emt 0:02:58]} 25. c4 {[%emt 0:03:49]} Nd4 {[%emt 0:02:10]} 26. Kf2 {[%emt 0:00:11]} Rh8 {[%emt 0:02:51]} 27. Rh1 {[%emt 0:01:33]} Bf7 {[%emt 0:01:10]} 28. Rxh8 {[%emt 0:01:07]} Rxh8 {[%emt 0:00:08]} 29. Rd1 {[%emt 0:00:22]} c5 {[%emt 0:00:13]} 30. b4 {[%emt 0:00:20]} Rh4 {[%emt 0:06:51]} 31. Kg3 {[%emt 0:00:15]} Rxf4 {[%emt 0:04:55]} 32. Nd5+ {[%emt 0:01:44]} Bxd5 {[%emt 0:00:07]} 33. Kxf4 {[%emt 0:00:20]} Nxe2+ {[%emt 0:01:11]} 34. Ke3 {[%emt 0:00:04]} Bxc4 {[%emt 0:00:03]} 35. bxc5 {[%emt 0:01:30]} f4+ {[%emt 0:02:37]} 36. Kf2 {[%emt 0:00:08]} f3 {[%emt 0:00:40]} 37. Bf1 {[%emt 0:00:29]} Ke5 {[%emt 0:00:32]} 38. Bxe2 {[%emt 0:00:52]} fxe2 {[%emt 0:01:18]} 39. Rd7 {[%emt 0:00:27]} Bxa2 {[%emt 0:01:25]} 40. Rxb7 {[%emt 0:00:00]} Bc4 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 41. c6 {[%emt 0:12:11]} Kd6 {[%emt 0:01:53]} 42. c7 {[%emt 0:00:31]} Kd7 {[%emt 0:02:46]} 43. Rb4 {[%emt 0:03:14]} Bd3 {[%emt 0:00:13]} 44. Rxe4 {[%emt 0:01:43]} Bxe4 {[%emt 0:00:05]} 45. c8=Q+ {[%emt 0:00:21]} Kxc8 {[%emt 0:00:05]} 46. Kxe2 {[%emt 0:00:06]} a5 {[%emt 0:00:05]} 47. Kd2 {[%emt 0:00:06]} a4 {[%emt 0:00:04]} 48. Kc3 {[%emt 0:00:08]} Bd5 1/2-1/2

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.19"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Mastrovasilis, Athanasios"]
[Black "Koutoukidis, Panagiotis"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E47"]
[WhiteElo "2510"]
[BlackElo "2357"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "124"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 22,124,28,37,40,41,37,32,44,38,39,48,51,64,58,68,57,68,65,41,59,46,80,66,73,62,79,55,71,79,97,103,101,106,105,98,131,121,186,136,152,146,176,157,166,161,158,159,158,150,131,129,142,147,176,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-67,-88,-93,0,-257,-258,-545,-531,-547,-543,-608,-607,-1859,-1875,-1633,-1551,-1345,-1062,-29972,-29973,-29971,-1975,-29970,0,-4802,-988,-949,-942,-989,-977,-29969,-29970,-29973,-29973,-29972,-5625]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3 c5 6. Nf3 d5 7. cxd5 exd5 {E53: Nimzo-Indian: Rubinstein: Main Line (4...0-0 5 Nf3 d5 6 Bd3 c5 7 0-0)} 8. dxc5 (8. O-O cxd4 9. Nxd4 Nc6 10. Nxc6 bxc6 11. Na4 Bd6 12. h3 Qe7 13. Bd2 c5 14. Rc1 Bb7 15. b3 Qe5 16. f4 Qe7 17. Nc3 Rac8 {0-1 (41) Le,Q (2715)-Nakamura,H (2763) chess.com INT 2018}) 8... Nbd7 9. O-O Nxc5 10. Ne2 Bg4 11. Nfd4 Nxd3 12. Qxd3 {LiveBook: 3 Games} Rc8 13. b3 Bh5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 13... Bd6 14. Bb2 Re8 15. Rac1 {0-1 (28) Olsen,F (2335)-Engel,L (2441) Porto Carras 2018}) 14. Bb2 Bg6 15. Qb5 Qe7 16. Ng3 Bc3 17. Bxc3 Rxc3 18. Qa5 Qc5 19. Qxc5 Rxc5 20. Rfd1 Rfc8 21. f3 Kf8 22. Nge2 h6 23. Rd2 Ke7 24. Kf2 Bh7 25. g4 Nd7 26. Rad1 Nb6 27. h4 {[%cal Bh2h4,Bh4h5][%mdl 32]} a5 28. a4 f6 29. Rg1 g5 (29... Bg6 $16 {might work better.} 30. Nf4 Kf7) 30. h5 Kf7 31. Ng3 Kg8 32. Rgd1 Rc3 33. Ngf5 Bxf5 34. Nxf5 Kh7 35. Rd3 Rc2+ 36. R1d2 Rxd2+ 37. Rxd2 $16 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRN-KRN} Rc3 38. e4 $2 (38. Rb2 $18) 38... dxe4 $11 39. fxe4 {aiming for Rd6.} Rxb3 40. Rd6 Nxa4 41. Rxf6 Rb6 42. Rf7+ $1 Kg8 43. Rc7 Nb2 44. Ne7+ Kf8 45. Nd5 (45. Ke3 $11) 45... Rb3 $1 $15 46. Nf6 a4 ({Black should try} 46... Nd3+ $17 47. Ke3 Nc5+ 48. Kd2 b6) 47. Rd7 $2 {[%mdl 8192]} (47. Ke2 $1 $11) 47... Nd3+ $19 48. Kg1 $2 (48. Ke2 Nf4+ 49. Kd2) 48... Rb6 49. Nd5 Rb1+ 50. Kg2 a3 {[%cal Ba4a3,Ba3a2][%mdl 32] Hoping for ...a2.} 51. Nf6 Nf4+ 52. Kf3 Rb3+ 53. Kf2 Rb6 54. e5 a2 55. Rd1 {[#]} Rb1 (55... Nd3+ $142 $1 {[%mdl 512]} 56. Kf3 (56. Rxd3 Rb2+) 56... Rb1 57. Rxd3 a1=Q 58. Ke4 Rb4+ 59. Kf5 Qf1+ 60. Ke6 Qxd3 61. Nd7+ Kg7 62. Ke7 Rd4 63. Nf6 Qa3+ 64. Ke6 Qf8 65. Ne8+ Qxe8+ 66. Kf5 Qf7#) 56. Rd7 {[#]} Rb6 (56... Rf1+ $142 $1 {[%mdl 512]} 57. Ke3 (57. Kxf1 a1=Q+) 57... Nd5+ $1 {[%mdl 576] Promotion} 58. Rxd5 a1=Q 59. Rd8+ Kf7 60. Rd7+ Ke6 61. Ne4 Kxd7 62. e6+ Kxe6 63. Kd3 Rf3+ 64. Ke2 Qf1+ 65. Kd2 Rd3+ 66. Kc2 Qd1+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 67. Kb2 Rb3+ 68. Ka2 Qb1#) 57. Rd1 $1 {[#] Strongly threatening Nd7+.} Ra6 (57... Nd3+ $142 $1 {[%mdl 512]} 58. Kf3 (58. Rxd3 Rb2+) 58... Rb1 59. Rxd3 a1=Q 60. Nd7+ Kg7) 58. Ra1 Nd3+ 59. Ke3 Nc5 60. Rf1 {[#]} Rxf6 $1 {[%mdl 576] Promotion. Black mates.} 61. Rxf6+ (61. exf6 Nb3) 61... Ke7 62. Rf1 Nb3 {Accuracy: White = 54%, Black = 62%.} 0-1

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.19"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Grivas, Efstratios"]
[Black "Kourkoulos-Arditis, Stamatis"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A49"]
[WhiteElo "2424"]
[BlackElo "2424"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "64"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 16,64,9,10,19,0,0,0,0,0,7,0,6,-8,-8,-20,0,-4,-14,-10,0,-37,6,-17,-10,-9,-9,-6,0,-10,-34,-38,-36,-75,-88,-106,4,13,0,5,2,-9,-9,-9,-10,-10,-10,-11,0,0,0]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 O-O 5. O-O d6 6. a4 {[%cal Ba2a4,Ba4a5][%mdl 32]} c6 7. a5 Qc7 {A49: 1 d4 Nf6 2 Nf3 g6 3 g3: Anti-King's Indian systems} 8. Nc3 (8. Nbd2 c5 9. c3 Na6 10. h3 cxd4 11. Nxd4 Bd7 12. Qb3 Nc5 13. Qa3 e5 14. N4b3 Na6 15. Rd1 {1-0 (64) Kazhgaleyev,M (2570)-Vakhidov,J (2576) Tashkent 2016}) 8... e5 9. e4 {LiveBook: 7 Games} Na6 10. h3 b5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 10... Re8 11. Re1 Bd7 12. Be3 Rad8 13. Qb1 c5 14. dxe5 dxe5 15. Nd2 {½-½ (72) Holm,K (2422)-Lie,E (2434) Norway 2016}) 11. axb6 axb6 12. Be3 b5 13. dxe5 dxe5 14. Nd2 Be6 15. Ne2 Qe7 16. c3 Nc5 {[%cal Ba6c5,Bc5b7,Bb7d6][%mdl 32]} 17. Qc2 Nfd7 18. b4 Nb7 (18... Na4 {looks sharper.} 19. Rfb1 Ndb6 20. Nc1 Qd7 21. Kh2 f5) 19. Qb2 Nd6 20. Rxa8 Rxa8 21. Ra1 Qd8 22. Nc1 Ra4 23. Rxa4 bxa4 24. Qa1 Qa8 25. Ncb3 {Black should prevent Na5.} Bxb3 (25... a3 $17 {...Qa4 is the strong threat.} 26. Na5 a2) 26. Nxb3 $11 {Hoping for Na5.The position is equal.} Nc4 27. Bc1 Ndb6 28. Bf1 Qd8 29. Na5 Qd1 {[#] White must now prevent ...a3!} 30. Bb2 Nxb2 31. Qxb2 Bf8 32. Kg2 $1 c5 {Accuracy: White = 42%, Black = 44%.} 1/2-1/2

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.19"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Kanakaris, Georgios"]
[Black "Nikolaidis, Ioannis"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2401"]
[BlackElo "2564"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "89"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 16,89,13,10,32,10,27,23,25,19,45,18,69,30,36,18,18,18,18,0,18,18,11,0,22,35,34,17,44,55,42,27,17,16,39,27,51,35,35,25,27,32,36,20,30,10,7,0,8,0,0,0,45,0,0,0,0,0,6,0,12,0,0,0,8,6,41,20,28,2,0,0,8,0,0,0]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 c5 4. Bd3 d5 5. b3 Nc6 6. Bb2 cxd4 7. exd4 g6 {D05: Colle System with ...e6} 8. O-O Bg7 9. Ba3 {LiveBook: 6 Games} Ne7 (9... a6 10. Re1 b5 11. c3 Bb7 12. Qc1 Rc8 13. Qf4 Ne7 14. Ne5 O-O 15. Bc5 {0-1 (27) Dominguez Perez,L (2739)-Margvelashvili,G (2530) chess.com INT 2018}) 10. c3 $146 ({Predecessor:} 10. Nbd2 O-O 11. Ne5 Re8 12. Ndf3 Qa5 13. Qc1 Ne4 14. Re1 f6 15. Ng4 {0-1 (45) Panelo Munoz,M (2448)-Lopez Martinez,J (2548) Barcelona 2014}) 10... O-O 11. Nbd2 b6 12. Qe2 Bb7 13. Rfe1 Ne8 ({Better is} 13... Rc8 $11) 14. Rac1 Nc7 15. Ne5 f6 16. Nef3 Re8 17. h4 e5 18. dxe5 fxe5 {[#] Strongly threatening ...e4.} 19. Nxe5 {aiming for Qg4.} Nf5 20. Ndf3 {h5 is the strong threat.} Nxh4 21. Qd2 Nxf3+ 22. Nxf3 Qd7 23. Rxe8+ (23. Qf4 {with more complications.} Ba6 24. Bxa6 Nxa6 25. c4 d4 26. Rxe8+ Rxe8 27. Re1) 23... Rxe8 24. Re1 Nb5 25. Rxe8+ Qxe8 26. Bxb5 Qxb5 27. Nd4 Qe8 28. Bd6 h6 29. Bf4 g5 30. Be3 (30. Bg3 {is more complex.} Bc8 31. Qd3 Be6 32. f3 Bf7 33. Nf5) 30... Qe4 31. a4 Be5 32. f3 Qb1+ 33. Qc1 Qg6 34. f4 gxf4 35. Bxf4 Bg7 36. Qe3 Bc8 37. Qf3 Be6 38. Qg3 Bg4 39. Be5 Bf8 40. b4 h5 41. Kh2 Bh6 42. Bf4 Bg7 {The position is equal.} 43. Qe3 Bf5 44. Qg3 Bxd4 45. Qxg6+ {Accuracy: White = 28%, Black = 47%.} 1/2-1/2

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.19"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Skaperdas, Kostantinos"]
[Black "Ioannidis, Evgenios"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A46"]
[WhiteElo "2231"]
[BlackElo "2382"]
[Annotator "NA"]
[PlyCount "72"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[TimeControl "40/5400+30:1800+30"]

1. d4 {[%emt 0:00:00]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:00:36]} 2. Nf3 {[%emt 0:00:00]} e6 {[%emt 0:01:29]} 3. Bf4 {[%emt 0:00:12]} c5 {[%emt 0:07:09]} 4. e3 {[%emt 0:00:30]} cxd4 {[%emt 0:03:01] LiveBook: 127 Games} 5. exd4 {[%emt 0:00:28]} b6 {[%emt 0:00:25]} 6. Nbd2 {[%emt 0:01:40]} Bb7 {[%emt 0:00:29]} 7. Bd3 {[%emt 0:00:09]} Be7 {[%emt 0:00:49]} 8. h3 {[%emt 0:00:05]} d6 {[%emt 0:02:18] A47: 1 d4 Nf6 2 Nf3 b6: Torre, London and Colle Systems} 9. a4 $146 {[%emt 0:12:54]} ({Predecessor:} 9. O-O O-O 10. Re1 Nbd7 11. a4 a6 12. Bh2 h6 13. a5 b5 14. c4 bxc4 15. Nxc4 Qb8 16. Ra3 {0-1 (86) Kamsky,G (2676)-Sjugirov,S (2650) Sochi 2017}) 9... a6 {[%emt 0:05:52]} 10. Nc4 {[%emt 0:01:07]} O-O {[%emt 0:02:40]} 11. O-O {[%emt 0:01:08]} Nd5 {[%emt 0:14:10]} 12. Bh2 {[%emt 0:15:55]} Qc7 {[%emt 0:00:47]} 13. c3 {[%emt 0:06:46]} Nd7 {[%emt 0:01:31]} 14. Qe2 {[%emt 0:03:50]} Rfd8 {[%emt 0:09:40]} 15. Rfe1 {[%emt 0:11:59]} Nf8 {[%emt 0:03:56]} 16. Nfd2 {[%emt 0:00:58]} Ng6 $11 {[%emt 0:05:00]} 17. Qh5 {[%emt 0:00:42]} (17. Be4 Rab8) 17... Nf6 {[%emt 0:09:12]} 18. Qe2 {[%emt 0:00:38]} Nh4 {[%emt 0:00:55]} 19. Ne3 {[%emt 0:00:37]} Qc6 {[%emt 0:00:56]} 20. Bg3 {[%emt 0:05:31]} Ng6 {[%emt 0:01:15]} 21. d5 {[%emt 0:07:03]} (21. a5 $14) 21... exd5 $14 {[%emt 0:00:48]} ({Wrong is} 21... Nxd5 $2 22. Nxd5 Bg5 23. Ne3 $18) 22. Nf3 {[%emt 0:04:29]} Re8 {[%emt 0:01:09]} 23. Nd4 {[%emt 0:00:23]} Qc7 {[%emt 0:00:50]} 24. Nef5 {[%emt 0:03:18]} Bf8 {[%emt 0:00:13]} 25. Qc2 {[%emt 0:02:19]} Ne4 {[%emt 0:02:10]} 26. Bh2 {[%emt 0:00:15]} Ne5 {[%emt 0:00:55]} 27. Bf1 {[%emt 0:02:06]} g6 {[%emt 0:04:08]} 28. Ne3 {[%emt 0:00:16]} Bh6 {[%emt 0:04:28]} 29. Ng4 {[%emt 0:01:58]} Bg7 {[%emt 0:01:39]} 30. f3 {[%emt 0:00:14]} Nxg4 {[%emt 0:00:09]} 31. Bd3 {[%emt 0:07:12]} Nxh2 {[%emt 0:03:55]} 32. fxe4 {[%emt 0:00:09]} dxe4 {[%emt 0:00:12]} 33. Bxe4 {[%emt 0:00:18]} d5 {[%emt 0:00:33]} 34. Bd3 {[%emt 0:00:13]} Qg3 {[%emt 0:01:47]} 35. Ne2 {[%emt 0:01:38]} Nf3+ {[%emt 0:00:05]} 36. Kf1 {[%emt 0:00:07]} Nxe1 0-1

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.19"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Makka, Evanthia"]
[Black "Gouloutis, Nikolaos"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A46"]
[WhiteElo "2084"]
[BlackElo "2353"]
[Annotator "NA"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[TimeControl "40/5400+30:1800+30"]

1. d4 {[%emt 0:00:00]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 2. Nf3 {[%emt 0:00:00]} e6 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 3. e3 {[%emt 0:00:00]} c5 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 4. Bd3 {[%emt 0:00:44]} cxd4 {[%emt 0:01:56]} 5. exd4 {[%emt 0:00:09]} Be7 {[%emt 0:00:05]} 6. O-O {[%emt 0:00:35]} O-O {[%emt 0:00:06]} 7. c4 {[%emt 0:01:45]} d5 {[%emt 0:00:13]} 8. Nc3 {[%emt 0:00:49]} dxc4 {[%emt 0:02:19]} 9. Bxc4 {[%emt 0:00:10]} Nbd7 {[%emt 0:00:08]} 10. Bb3 {[%emt 0:01:48] D40: Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch with 5 e3} (10. a3 Nb6 11. Ba2 Bd7 12. Ne5 Rc8 13. Qf3 Bc6 14. Nxc6 Rxc6 15. Rd1 Nfd5 16. Ne4 Qc7 17. b4 Nc3 18. Nxc3 Rxc3 19. Qe4 {½-½ (36) Guliev,L (2336)-Tarlev,K (2544) Mersin 2017}) 10... Nb6 {[%emt 0:01:58] LiveBook: 13 Games} 11. Qd3 {[%emt 0:01:53]} Bd7 {[%emt 0:24:33]} 12. Ne5 {[%emt 0:02:18]} Rc8 {[%emt 0:00:46]} 13. Bg5 {[%emt 0:09:16]} Bc6 {[%emt 0:01:56]} 14. Bc2 {[%emt 0:12:01]} g6 {[%emt 0:00:24]} 15. Rae1 $146 {[%emt 0:06:40]} ({Predecessor:} 15. Rad1 a6 16. Rfe1 Nbd5 17. Bb3 b5 18. Qh3 Qd6 19. Nxc6 Rxc6 20. Nxd5 exd5 {1-0 (42) Thielsch,N (2347)-Grohde,W (2168) Hamburg 2005}) 15... Nbd5 {[%emt 0:17:12]} 16. Qh3 {[%emt 0:22:12]} Nh5 $11 {[%emt 0:10:28]} 17. Nxc6 {[%emt 0:08:18]} Rxc6 {[%emt 0:01:02]} 18. Bh6 {[%emt 0:01:50]} Ng7 {[%emt 0:03:22]} 19. Bb3 {[%emt 0:14:24]} Nxc3 {[%emt 0:03:58]} 20. bxc3 {[%emt 0:00:53]} Bg5 {[%emt 0:00:43]} 21. Bxg7 {[%emt 0:01:32]} Kxg7 {[%emt 0:00:04]} 22. f4 {[%emt 0:01:24]} Bf6 {[%emt 0:00:15]} 23. Rd1 {[%emt 0:06:13]} h5 {[%emt 0:20:44]} 24. Rd3 {[%emt 0:02:20]} Qb6 {[%emt 0:03:02]} 25. Kh1 {[%emt 0:02:29]} Rfc8 {[%emt 0:01:09]} 26. Rg3 {[%emt 0:01:10]} Qa5 {[%emt 0:02:59]} 27. d5 {[%emt 0:01:23]} Rxc3 {[%emt 0:01:39]} 28. dxe6 {[%emt 0:00:19]} Rc1 {[%emt 0:00:02]} 29. Rgf3 {[%emt 0:00:26]} Qa6 {[%emt 0:00:34]} 30. Bd1 {[%emt 0:01:21]} Rd8 {[%emt 0:00:57]} 31. Be2 {[%emt 0:00:34]} Qxe2 {[%emt 0:00:10]} 0-1

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.20"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Nikolaidis, Ioannis"]
[Black "Skaperdas, Kostantinos"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D31"]
[WhiteElo "2564"]
[BlackElo "2231"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "77"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 18,77,14,2,50,0,0,1,72,65,87,74,74,54,55,54,77,58,102,102,104,100,125,102,117,112,106,100,93,72,90,89,89,61,137,134,135,123,154,145,260,275,260,267,216,233,264,241,251,259,454,318,372,409,1023,1025,1724,1686,1568,1578,1068,449]} 1. d4 e6 2. c4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qa4+ Nc6 5. e3 Nf6 6. Nf3 O-O 7. Bd2 Re8 {D38: Queen's Gambit Declined: Ragozin Defence (4 Nf3 Bb4)} (7... dxc4 8. Bxc4 Bd6 9. e4 e5 10. dxe5 Nxe5 11. Nxe5 Bxe5 12. O-O-O Qe8 13. Qxe8 Rxe8 14. f3 Be6 15. Bxe6 Rxe6 {½-½ (67) Navara,D (2727)-Harikrishna,P (2732) Prague 2018}) 8. Qc2 Bd6 9. a3 a6 10. Bd3 {LiveBook: 3 Games} Bd7 $146 ({Predecessor:} 10... dxc4 11. Bxc4 h6 12. O-O e5 13. h3 e4 14. Ne1 Bf5 {1-0 (54) Leitao,R (2616)-Shengelia,D (2573) Baku 2016}) 11. O-O dxc4 12. Bxc4 e5 {[#]} (12... h6 $11) 13. Ng5 $1 $16 {[%cal Rg5f7]} Rf8 14. Nd5 {Nxf6+ would kill now.} (14. f4 {keeps more tension.} exd4 15. Nd5 g6 16. e4 Nxd5 17. Bxd5 Kg7 18. Qc4) 14... g6 15. Nxf6+ Qxf6 16. Ne4 Qe7 17. d5 Nb8 {[%cal Bc6b8,Bb8a6,Ba6c5,Bc5a4][%mdl 32]} 18. Nxd6 cxd6 19. Rfc1 b5 20. Be2 {[#] aiming for Qc7.} a5 21. Qc7 Na6 22. Qxa5 Nc5 23. Qb4 f5 24. Qc3 ({Inferior is} 24. Bxb5 Rfb8 $17) 24... g5 25. f3 h5 (25... Rfc8 $14) 26. b4 Na4 27. Qb3 Rfc8 28. Rc6 Rab8 (28... Bxc6 $16 29. dxc6+ Qf7 30. Qxf7+ Kxf7) 29. Bxb5 $18 Rxb5 30. Rxc8+ ({Resist} 30. Qxa4 $6 Bxc6 31. dxc6 Rd5 $16) 30... Bxc8 31. Qxa4 Rxd5 32. Qc2 Bb7 33. Bc3 Qd7 $2 (33... e4 {is a better defense.} 34. fxe4 Qxe4 35. Qxe4 fxe4) 34. a4 {Hoping for e4.} Qc6 35. Rc1 e4 (35... Qb6 $142 36. Kf2 e4) 36. fxe4 {White is clearly winning.} fxe4 37. Qf2 {Intending Rf1 and mate.} Qd7 38. Qf6 Rf5 39. Qh8+ {Accuracy: White = 72%, Black = 36%.} (39. Qg6+ $142 Kf8 40. Bf6) 1-0

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.20"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Kourkoulos-Arditis, Stamatis"]
[Black "Makka, Evanthia"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A06"]
[WhiteElo "2424"]
[BlackElo "2084"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 12,71,31,-31,67,77,61,66,71,75,64,69,97,74,120,109,115,122,131,127,153,126,160,104,115,111,125,124,106,110,164,160,155,141,146,147,189,169,152,149,185,152,191,179,190,155,308,133,242,235,252,189,220,188,183,152,127,126,275,287,310,302]} 1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 g6 3. Bg2 Bg7 4. c4 c6 5. O-O Nf6 6. d4 dxc4 {D73: Fianchetto Grünfeld: 5 Nf3} (6... O-O 7. b3 Bf5 8. Bb2 Nbd7 9. cxd5 cxd5 10. Nc3 Qb6 11. Rc1 Rfc8 12. e3 Be4 13. Qe2 e6 14. Rfd1 a6 15. Bf1 Bxf3 16. Qxf3 Qd8 {½-½ (42) Wojtaszek,R (2737)-Grischuk,A (2785) Heraklio 2017}) 7. Na3 {LiveBook: 22 Games} ({White should try} 7. Qc2 $14) 7... Be6 ({Black should play} 7... b5 $1 $15) 8. Ng5 $1 $14 Bg4 $146 {White is better.} ({Predecessor:} 8... Bd5 9. e4 h6 10. exd5 hxg5 11. dxc6 Nxc6 12. d5 Ne5 13. Nxc4 Nxc4 {½-½ (55) Tuncer,U (2341)-Secer,A (2319) Kocaeli 2014}) 9. Nxc4 O-O 10. Ne5 {And now Ngxf7 would win.} Bc8 11. Qb3 Qe8 12. e4 h6 13. Nxg6 {[#] Black must now prevent Nf3.} hxg5 14. Nxf8 Qxf8 15. Bxg5 e6 16. h3 Na6 17. Be3 (17. Rac1 $142) 17... b6 $16 18. f4 Rb8 19. g4 c5 20. e5 Nd7 (20... Nd5 $16 {was necessary.} 21. Bxd5 exd5) 21. d5 $36 {[%mdl 2048] White is really pushing.} exd5 22. Bxd5 Nc7 23. Bg2 Qe8 24. Rad1 Nf8 25. Rfe1 Be6 26. Qd3 Bd7 27. Qe4 Bc8 28. Qc2 Ng6 $2 {[#]} (28... Bb7 $16 29. Bxb7 Rxb7) 29. Be4 (29. f5 $18 {is more deadly.}) 29... Nf8 (29... Bb7 $16 {was called for.}) 30. Qf2 Qe7 31. Qf3 Bd7 32. Rd2 Re8 33. Bf2 Nce6 34. Kh1 f6 (34... Bb5 $16) 35. Bd5 fxe5 36. f5 {Accuracy: White = 60%, Black = 36%.} ({Weaker is} 36. fxe5 Kh8 $14) 1-0

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.20"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Ioannidis, Evgenios"]
[Black "Mastrovasilis, Athanasios"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C55"]
[WhiteElo "2382"]
[BlackElo "2510"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "68"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 11,68,33,38,25,33,25,25,25,40,32,32,41,50,40,61,42,39,28,35,28,28,0,4,3,18,0,0,-63,-70,-88,-118,-117,-110,-103,-99,-86,-99,-108,-90,-99,-95,-109,-112,-111,-105,-107,-105,-105,-103,-387,-395,-557,-570,-562,-553,-553,-553,-5003,-4941]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 h6 5. c3 d6 6. Nbd2 g6 {LiveBook: 58 Games. C55: Two Knights: 4 d3, 4 d4 exd4 5 e5 and Max Lange Attack} (6... g5 7. h3 Nh5 8. g3 Nf6 9. Nf1 Bg7 10. Ne3 Ne7 11. Bb3 c6 12. h4 g4 13. Nh2 h5 14. f3 {1-0 (40) Dominguez Perez,L (2739)-Mamedyarov,S (2801) Saint Louis 2018}) 7. a4 a5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 7... Bg7 8. a5 a6 9. Qb3 O-O 10. Nf1 b5 11. axb6 cxb6 12. Qc2 d5 13. Ba2 Bg4 14. Qe2 {1-0 (41) Dgebuadze,A (2544)-Marholev,D (2355) Livigno 2011}) 8. h3 Bg7 {White has an edge.} 9. O-O O-O 10. Re1 Nd7 11. Nf1 Nb6 12. Bb3 Kh7 13. d4 exd4 14. cxd4 Nb4 15. Bd2 c5 16. Bxb4 (16. Bc3 {keeps more tension.} c4 17. Bc2 d5 18. Ne3 Be6 19. e5) 16... axb4 17. Ne3 Nd7 18. Nc4 Ra6 19. a5 ({Better is} 19. Ne3 $11) 19... cxd4 $15 20. Nxd4 Nc5 {...Bxd4 is the strong threat.} 21. Bc2 {[#]} d5 $1 {[%cal Rd5c4]} 22. Nb6 dxe4 23. Nb3 Nxb3 24. Bxb3 Bxb2 25. Qxd8 Rxd8 26. Rad1 Rxd1 27. Rxd1 Be6 28. Bxe6 fxe6 $17 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRN} 29. Rd7+ {[#]} Bg7 $1 30. Nc4 $2 {[%mdl 8192]} (30. Rxb7 $17 {was forced.} Rxa5 31. Nd7) 30... Rc6 $19 31. Nd2 (31. Nb2 {keeps fighting.} Rc1+ 32. Kh2) 31... Rc1+ {Black is clearly winning.} 32. Kh2 Rd1 33. Rxb7 Rxd2 34. Rxb4 Be5+ {Precision: White = 51%, Black = 69%.} 0-1

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.20"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Koutoukidis, Panagiotis"]
[Black "Grivas, Efstratios"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C92"]
[WhiteElo "2357"]
[BlackElo "2424"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "28"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 27,28,0,50]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3 O-O 9. h3 Bb7 10. d4 Re8 11. Ng5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 11. Nbd2 Bf8 12. a3 Nb8 13. Ng5 Re7 14. Ndf3 Nbd7 15. Nxf7 Rxf7 16. Ng5 d5 17. Nxf7 Kxf7 18. f4 exd4 19. e5 dxc3 20. bxc3 Kg8 21. exf6 Nxf6 {1-0 (39) Topalov,V (2740)-Karpov,A (2623) Salamanca 2018}) 11... Rf8 12. Nf3 Re8 13. Ng5 Rf8 14. Nf3 Re8 {LiveBook: 6393 Games} 1/2-1/2

[Event "68th GRE-ch 2018"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2018.12.20"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Gouloutis, Nikolaos"]
[Black "Kanakaris, Georgios"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D30"]
[WhiteElo "2353"]
[BlackElo "2401"]
[Annotator "ChessBase"]
[PlyCount "37"]
[EventDate "2018.12.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[TimeControl "40/5400+30:1800+30"]

1. d4 {[%emt 0:00:00]} d5 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 2. c4 {[%emt 0:00:00]} e6 {[%emt 0:00:21]} 3. Nf3 {[%emt 0:04:29]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:00:06]} 4. g3 {[%emt 0:01:46]} Bb4+ {[%emt 0:00:47]} 5. Bd2 {[%emt 0:00:51]} Be7 {[%emt 0:00:28]} 6. Bg2 {[%emt 0:00:06]} O-O {[%emt 0:00:25]} 7. O-O {[%emt 0:00:12]} c6 {[%emt 0:00:59]} 8. Qc2 {[%emt 0:00:42]} b6 {[%emt 0:00:48]} 9. Rd1 {[%emt 0:00:42]} Ba6 {[%emt 0:01:28]} 10. b3 {[%emt 0:00:07]} Nbd7 {[%emt 0:00:39]} 11. Nc3 {[%emt 0:02:32]} Rc8 {[%emt 0:01:59]} 12. Bf4 {[%emt 0:03:20]} Nh5 {[%emt 0:01:11]} 13. Bc1 {[%emt 0:00:06]} Nhf6 {[%emt 0:00:23]} 14. e4 {[%emt 0:01:02]} dxc4 {[%emt 0:02:08]} 15. Bf4 {[%emt 0:01:27]} Nh5 {[%emt 0:01:10]} 16. Bc1 {[%emt 0:00:24]} Nhf6 {[%emt 0:00:17]} 17. Bf4 {[%emt 0:02:04]} Nh5 {[%emt 0:00:19]} 18. Bc1 {[%emt 0:00:11]} Nhf6 {[%emt 0:00:08]} 19. Bf4 1/2-1/2

