From the Chess archiv of Chess-Results.com: Article: 4297 from 14.03.2005, Category International

Acropolis 2005 - International Tournaments, Athens (Greece)

The "Acropolis" tournament is a traditional member of the Greek chess calendar. "Acropolis" 2005 ventures to be the strongest edition ever! Apart from the top Greek chessplayers, the tournament also hosts participants from 22 other countries. In total, 35 Grandmasters and 16 International Masters will play in the tournament. These include Womens World Champion Antoaneta Stefanova (Bulgaria), former World Championship Candidate and No3 in the world rankings Andrei Sokolov (France), the legendary Grandmasters Smbat Lputian (Armenia) and Oleg Romanishin (Ukraine) and also last years winners, Thanos Mastrovasilis (Greece), Bartosz & Monika Socko (Poland).

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Acropolis 2004 - International Tournaments, Athens (Greece)

The Acropolis International Tournaments 2004 take place at the hotel President in Athensfrom the 16th until the 24th of November 2004. The event includes 3 parallel tournaments, a mens closed tournament, a mens open, and a womens open tournament. Especially, the mens open is expected to be a quite strong one as from the 60 players who are going to participate 15 are grandmasters.

The total prize for the 2 open tournaments is 12.000 Euros. The Acropolis Tournament, organized by the Greek Chess Federation, is one of the most important chess events of our country as it attracts the attention of Greek chess elite. Moreover, during the last years it has adopted the character of a chess festival with a series of tournaments incorporated in a single event.

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