Sunday
Jul112010
Greek Team Championship Ends, Ivanchuk Goes 6/7
Sunday, July 11, 2010 at 1:37PM
A great performance! I hope the Live Top List comes back from vacation or whatever he's doing soon, so we can see Ivanchuk's (unofficial) rating.
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His live rating now is 2754 (9th place).
So Ivanchuk is a Greek??
Sure, just like Anand, Shirov, and most of the world's top GMs playing in the Bundesliga are German. At least the vast majority of the players in the GTC really were Greek!
From the report by IM Georgios Souleidis at Chessvibes: "Every team has the right to include two foreign players (one EU and one Non-EU player)." [that's it - the other 10 players per team have to be Greek].
Somewhat off-topic, but possibly interesting also/particularly for Dennis is Souleidis' personal introduction starting with "As a Greek citizen born in Germany – and living there all my life – I’ve always somehow felt trapped between two cultures."