47th Greek Team Chess Championship: Porto Rio 2018

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Basic data

47th Greek Team Chess Championship
(see all-time tournament summary)
Dates: 10th - 15th July 2018
City: Porto Rio (Greece)
Venue: Porto Rio Hotel
Organizers: Greek Chess Federation (ESO); Peloponnese Chess Clubs Union (ESSP)
Tournament Director: Giorgos Georgopoulos
Chief Arbiter:
Eligible: Boards 1-4: open; board 5: women; board 6: girls U20; board 7: girls U16; boards 8-10: open U20, U16 and U12 respectively.
Seeding: Average of the ten highest ratings by board category; FIDE ratings, or national ratings where no FIDE rating was available.
Teams participating: 34
Players participating: 638 (incl. 38 GMs, 28 IMs, 7 WGMs, 33 FMs, 6 WIMs, 2 CMs, 6 WFMs and 2 WCMs)
Games played: 1190 (2 games were forfeited)
Competition format: 34 teams; seven-round Swiss; ten boards per match.
Final order decided by: Match points (2/1/0); direct encounter where all relevant matches were played; Olympiad Sonneborn-Berger excluding the weakest opponent; board points; opponents' match points excluding the weakest opponent; then further criteria in article 14 of the regulations.
Time control: 40 moves in 90 minutes, then 30 minutes to finish; 30 seconds increment from move 1. Default time: 30 minutes. Draw offers before move 30 prohibited.
Website: Official tournament website (archived address)
Other websites: Final standings and results (Greek Chess Federation)
Official regulations
Sources: Greek Chess Federation regulations; Chess-Results event 364474 (all seven rounds and final standings); TWIC 1236.
Published individual board list
SO Kavalas: confirmed individual award
Data notes: All 1,190 game results, 119 team matches and final MP/BP/SB/Buchholz totals verified against the Greek Chess Federation's Chess-Results file. Forfeits have PGN records and incur the Greek half-point board penalty. Round 7 TRAN-SEIA board 9 is a forfeit in Chess-Results, while TWIC includes 1.d4; that move was preserved. Board-medal rules were not verified; automatic medal assignment is disabled for this edition pending primary evidence.
PGN game file: 18greece.pgn



Tournament review

EOAO Fisiolatris Nikaias won with 13 match points; ES Thessaloniki finished second with 12, SO Kavalas third with 11.


Best board results

SO Kavalas confirms the best-women-board award for Elisabeth Pähtz with 6.5/7. The complete ranking formula, minimum participation and tie-breaks remain unverified.