title: Acropolis International chess tournament
text: # Acropolis International chess tournament
  
  The Acropolis International was a chess tournament held in Athens. The longest running international chess tournament in Greece, the first event, an international invitation tournament was won by Luděk Pachman in 1968.
  
  The next event was not held until 1977, but subsequently it has been organized on a fairly regular basis by the Greek Chess Federation, including sometimes another minor event for men and a tournament for women, too.
  
  The 2007 tournament was part of the Association of Chess Professionals Tour (ACP Tour). The 2009 open tournament took place in Chalkida on the island of Euboea and was won by Borki Predojević on tie-break. It turned out to be the last one.
  
  The inaugural Acropolis was played as a round robin (all-play-all), then the format varied across the series, switching several times between closed and open tournaments played in Swiss system, totaling 24 editions.
  
  Note: In the following list of the winners at Acropolis ICT, only the best player on tie-break is indicated if there were shared first places.
  
  ## Winners
  
      Acropolis International in Athens #YearWinner 11968 Luděk Pachman (Czechoslovakia) 21977 Valentin Stoica (Romania) 31978 Bela Soos (West Germany) 41979 Aurel Urzica (Romania) 51980 Dusan Raikovic (Yugoslavia) 61982 Nikolaos Skalkotas (Greece) 71983 Nikola Padevsky (Bulgaria) 81984 Sasa Velickovic (Yugoslavia) 91985 Valentin Stoica (Romania) 101986 Efstratios Grivas (Greece) 111987 Evgeni Vasiukov (Soviet Union) 121988 Vasilios Kotronias (Greece) 131989 Petar Velikov (Bulgaria) 141991 Efstratios Grivas (Greece) 151992 Rainer Knaak (Germany) 161993 Hannes Stefánsson (Iceland) 171997 Tamaz Gelashvili (Georgia) 182003 Vassilios Kotronias (Cyprus) 192004 Athanasios Mastrovasilis (Greece) 202005 Vugar Gashimov (Azerbaijan) 212006 Tamaz Gelashvili (Georgia) 222007 Ilya Smirin (Israel) 232008 Ilya Smirin (Israel) 242009 Borki Predojević (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
  