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"Vardaris", for yet another year, is hosted on the pages of the "New In Chess Magazine 2018/8" that has just been released. Besides the latest chess news, thousands of magazine’s readers worldwide will also meet "Vardaris".
So, try walking on "Vardaris" shoe, an idea of Nikos Syrakis and Maria Orfanou, the trademark of this year's 5th International Tournament "Vardaris".
"New In Chess" was first released in 1984 and is being distributed today in 116 countries around the world. The world’s top chess players have written articles for this magazine.
64 days before the start of the tournament, exactly as many as the squares of the chessboard…
Chess Club SACH of Thessaloniki has the pleasure and honor to organize, for 5th consecutive year, the International Chess Tournament “Vardaris”.
The unique playing venue of Holiday Inn Hotel in the center of the city in combination with our good mood and our will for an even better tournament are the basic ingredients that attract every year chess players from every corner of Greece, as well as all over the world.
Surprises will continue, as all participants of previous years had the chance to experience.
We are waiting all of you to our big feast!
Α’ Group
Final Standings
1st Dardha Daniel
2nd Petrov Martin
3rd Dardha Arben
4th Markidis Konstantinos
5th Stanojoski Zvonko
6th Trimitzios Petros
Women
1st Avramidou Anastasia
2nd Arsovic Helena
3rd Yordanova Svetla
Special Categories
Veteran S50
1st Bogdanovski Vlatco
The 13-year-old Belgian, Daniel Dardha, was the winner of Group A at the 4th International Chess Tournament “Vardaris”. Remarkable, besides the young age of the chess player, was the fact that in the last round, he confronted and defeated his father and personal coach too, Arben Dardha!
“Vardaris”, for the first time this year, was consisted of 4 different groups of capacities. So, the winner of Group B was Yiannis Tsotras of the Evia’s Chess players’ Association, in Group C (U12) the winner was Stelios Sioulas of the Chess Club Evosmos-Kordelio and finally the winner of Group D (U8) was the Romanian Robert-Gabriel Sava.
254 chess players participated in total, from 12 different countries.
THANK YOU LETTER
The Cooperativa "Allostropos" and the Chess Club SACH of Thessaloniki wish to thank the Management of ERT3 TV channel, 95,8fm and 102fm radio stations, who are the Communication Sponsors of the 4th International Chess Tournament "Vardaris".
The TV commercial that is currently playing on ERT3 channel was made by our good friend Nikos Sirakis. We would like to thank him, not only for the hours he spent shooting, cutting and creating the spot, but most of all because he did it all, feeling happy.
The radio spot is on the air of 95,8fm and 102fm radio stations.
Be there!!!