Greek Chess photos

Who said that chess is not a team sport

karpidis — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:38:45 +0000

Who said that chess is not fun and a team sport?

Tasos Pavlidis new greek champion under 20

karpidis — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:35:38 +0000

Tasos Pavlidis one more time became Greek champion in his category. He is a real talented player that I think soon will be in our national team

Goodbye Niko !

karpidis — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:04:21 +0000

In ancient Greece death in honour meant to be death on a combat. All kings and princes tried not to die on a bed but on combat. Nowadays we would say that for a death on honour for a chess player would be death on winning position over a “stronger” opponent. And this way Nikos Karapanos left us. He was only 42 years old when he left over the board on Acropolis chess tournament. Died on honour. My friend we’re not going to forget you. We will not forget that you played for the art of the game and not only for win! Goodbye!

Marina Makropoulou won bronze medal at Mediterranean championship

karpidis — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:11:57 +0000

At Mediterranean championship in Turkey we had 2 medals. It wasn’t only Yannis’ gold medal but also Marina Makropoulou won Bronze medal. Congratulation Marina and hope that you will continue to be at the top greek chess players for many years more!
^{photo is from Euroteams 2007}

The new mediterranean champion

karpidis — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:43:53 +0000

The new Mediterranean Champion is the Greek International Master Ioannis Georgiadis. He achieved the second GM norm so very soon we will have a new Greek Grandmaster. Congratulation Yanni!
^{photo is from the tournament that he achieved his first GM norm Acropolis 2006}

The handshake

karpidis — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:24:41 +0000

One thing that I teach all my students is the handshake. I think is fundamental for a game like chess. If you don’t give your hand to your opponent is like you don’t respect him. I see some players that when they lose, they don’t give their hand. It is like they believe that they lost unfairly. And this like to offend their opponent. What you would do if your opponent didn’t not give you his hand?

_{This photo is one more blurry one that I liked it because shows the movement in their hands}

The new young greek champions

karpidis — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:49:45 +0000

2-8 January in Greece we had the final section of Greek championship for young men, women and boys girls <=18. So I present you our four new champions. Filippas Sebastien,Katerina Pavlidou,Zoi Iordanidou (difficult to capture not laughing) and Yorgos Kanakaris.

Have you ever had a chess nightmare?

karpidis — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:39:08 +0000

Have you ever had a chess nightmare?

_{This effect I had it moving up and down,right and left my camera with 6 sec exposure.}

I play chess and I like it

karpidis — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:00:06 +0000

At Greek Championship for boys under 20 years old play many boys that they are still in school. Some of them they show that they like it so much and are posing at photos with a big smile. After this photo the young George Papadopoulos won and made his second win on third round.

^{photo metadata focal length 18mm,manual mode exposure 1/15,aperture f/4, ISO 100 and flash at auto mode}

White pieces by Nikon D60

karpidis — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:00:17 +0000

I had bought new camera. A Nikon D60. I wanted to check the wide angle lens so I made this shot of white pieces. I like it but I cannot say the same thing about my shots on black pieces.
I made this shot in Aperture priority mode ( A mode at Nikons) with focal length 18mm and aperture f/3.5