
This event saw many strong players at the start; GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami, GM
Elshan Moradiabadi , GM Emre Can, GM Kivanc Haznedaroglu, IM Mustafa Yilmaz,
IM Pouria Darini, IM Ogulcan Kanmazalp and IM Javad Alavi Sayed. The match was
played as a double Scheveningen with eight rounds.

The match ended with victory of the Iranian team, which beat the Turkish squad
21:11. GM Elshan Moradiabadi showed the highest performance in the friendship
match. Full reports and pictures can be found on the tournament
web site. You will also find the games in PGN there.
One of the games of the match has an instructive pawn ending which was analysed
by the international chess trainer and Turkish team coach Efstratios Grivas.
Here are his notes.
Click to download the PGN
Efstratios Grivas
Efstratios Grivas is a grandmaster and highly experienced chess trainer
and chess author.
He lives in Athens, and he is also a FIDE Senior Trainer (Secretary
of the FIDE Trainers' Commission), an International FIDE Chess Arbiter
and an International FIDE Chess Organizer. He has represented his country
on a great many occasions, winning the fourth position in the World
Junior Championship 1985, an individual gold medal at the 1989 European
Team Championship and an individual silver medal at the 1998 Olympiad.
In 2010 he was awarded the worldwide highly important FIDE TRG Awards
– the Boleslavsky Medal (best author) for 2009. |
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Training DVDs by Efstratios Grivas

Chess Expertise Step by Step Vols. 1 and 2. Click for more informantion