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Nikolaos Karapanos

Number of games in database: 34
Years covered: 1987 to 2009
Last FIDE rating: 2197
Overall record: +9 -22 =3 (30.9%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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NIKOLAOS KARAPANOS
(born Oct-23-1966, died Aug-10-2009, 42 years old) Greece

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Nikolaos Karapanos was one of the leading chess trainers in Greece. Tragically, at age 42 he died suddenly while playing the game N Karapanos vs D Zoler, 2009, after achieving a winning position against his International Master opponent.

Last updated: 2023-11-14 07:16:37

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. S Ilandzis vs N Karapanos  1-0361987GRE-chTE60 King's Indian Defense
2. N Karapanos vs S Lazaridis  ½-½301987GRE-chTA67 Benoni, Taimanov Variation
3. T Lirindzakis vs N Karapanos  1-0411987GRE-ch sfB01 Scandinavian
4. T Liverios vs N Karapanos  ½-½251987GRE-chTD32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
5. N Karapanos vs A Daniilidis  0-1211987Acropolis OpenB01 Scandinavian
6. N Karapanos vs K Oreopoulos  1-0271989Corfu opD87 Grunfeld, Exchange
7. Khenkin vs N Karapanos  1-0251991Corfu opA90 Dutch
8. N Karapanos vs A Wojtkiewicz  0-1341993Katerini GPE97 King's Indian
9. T Thorhallsson vs N Karapanos  1-0461993Komotini GPB45 Sicilian, Taimanov
10. N Karapanos vs T Gelashvili  0-1391997Halkida opA45 Queen's Pawn Game
11. M Pavlovic vs N Karapanos  1-0251998Panormo ZonalB78 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 10.castle long
12. N Karapanos vs R Raka  0-1501998Panormo ZonalB21 Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4
13. M Petsetidi vs N Karapanos  0-1421998Panormo ZonalB99 Sicilian, Najdorf, 7...Be7 Main line
14. N Karapanos vs A Nadanian 1-0421998Panormo ZonalA90 Dutch
15. M Drasko vs N Karapanos  1-0411998Panormo ZonalE67 King's Indian, Fianchetto
16. N Karapanos vs A Karagiannis  0-1371998Panormo ZonalE00 Queen's Pawn Game
17. A Olcayoz vs N Karapanos  1-0411998Panormo ZonalD03 Torre Attack (Tartakower Variation)
18. N Karapanos vs E Bras  1-0221998Panormo ZonalD30 Queen's Gambit Declined
19. G Prassas vs N Karapanos  1-0601998Panormo ZonalB32 Sicilian
20. N Karapanos vs I Miladinovic  0-1261999Thessaloniki Tower opD02 Queen's Pawn Game
21. R Patterson vs N Karapanos  ½-½362001Panormo OpenB93 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6.f4
22. M Lacrosse vs N Karapanos  1-0342001Panormo OpenA89 Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation with Nc6
23. N Karapanos vs V Gurevich 0-13720015th OpenB40 Sicilian
24. N Karapanos vs A Papastavropoulos  1-03620015th OpenA51 Budapest Gambit
25. A Khamatgaleev vs N Karapanos  0-1642002Aegean-ch opB06 Robatsch
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Kibitzer's Corner
Aug-11-09  jon01: "The Organizing Committee of the 24th International Chess Tournament “Acropolis 2009” mourns the sudden loss of the Greek chess player Nikos Karapanos, who was participating in the tournament, and expresses its condolences to the family of the deceased."
Aug-12-09  thegoldenband: Very sad news indeed. It would be good to see more of Karapanos's games on here, as the handful currently available aren't really a fitting memorial. A search on his full name (Nikolaos Karapanos) reveals a few possible sources.
Aug-16-09  Manic: I read about it in the chess column in my local newspaper written by Ian Rogers. Very sad news indeed.

It was fitting that his final game was one where he was beating the Israeli IM Dan Zoler in spectacular fashion. Zoler, who according to http://tournaments.chessdom.com/acr... is a doctor, attempted to revive Karapanos.

When it was clear that he could not be resusciated, out of respect for Karapanos, Zoler resigned in the final position (he is lost) and withdrew from the tournament. I will submit the PGN of this game to chessgames. There are additional annotations given in the Chessdom link above.

[Event "24th ICT Acropolis"]
[Site "Chalkida, Greece"]
[Date "2009.08.10"]
[EventDate "2009.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Karapanos, Nikolaos"]
[Black "Zoler, Dan"]
[ECO "E00"]
[WhiteElo "2208"]
[BlackElo "2472"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 Bb4+ 4.Bd2 c5 5.Bxb4 cxb4 6.Bg2 0-0 7.Nf3 d6 8.0-0 a5 9.a3 Na6 10.Nbd2 Qc7 11.h3 Rd8 12.e4 e5 13.Qe2 b6 14.a4 Bb7 15.b3 Re8 16.Rad1 Rad8 17.Rfe1 exd4 18.Nxd4 Nc5 19.f3 Nh5 20.Nf1 d5 21.cxd5 Bxd5 22.exd5 Rxe2 23.Rxe2 g6 24.f4 Nf6 25.Nc6 Rd7 26.Ne5 Rd8 27.Nc6 Rd7 28.Ne5 Nxb3 29.Nxd7 Nxd7 30.d6 Qc5+ 31.Kh2 Kg7 32.Re7 Qc8 33.Ne3 Nf6 34.d7 Qd8 35.Ng4 Kf8 36.Ne5 Nc5 1-0

White has a forced win in the final position with 37.Rxf7+ Kg8 38.Rxf6!

Apr-09-12  whiteshark: < Man plans and God laughs < -Yiddish proverb >>

Sometimes when you have a dream, a vision, and you carefully plan how to transform it into reality, life decides otherwise. A man with such a vision was my former trainer, mentor, teammate, and above all the big brother I never had, Nikolaos Karapanos. Karapanos was one of the most loved chess figures in Greece. When he participated in a tournament as a player, or more frequently as a coach, everybody sought out his company, enjoyed hearing his funny stories, and wanted his friendly support.

Nikolaos devoted his life to teaching young and upcoming juniors. He was an enormous chess talent as a junior himself, but he never had the will or motivation to become a professional chess player. He was a "man for the team" and not a "man for himself" . He could easily draw or even win against a grandmaster if his team needed him to do so, but he could make a 15-move draw against a 1600 amateur in order to go with him and have a coffee and a pleasant talk about history, poetry, women or football, if he considered him an interesting person!

Nikolaos lived an exciting life. His sudden death, during the traditional Acropolis Tournament in the summer of 2009, was a big shock for the whole Greek chess community. The story of his death was published on chess sites all over the world."

- Nikolaos Ntirlis in the preface of "The Tarrasch Defence"

Apr-09-12  whiteshark: "Nikolaos's vision was to create a chess school. He was one of the most successful trainers in Greece, so he had clear and strong ideas about how such a school should work. He knew that no man can achieve anything without the support of people that he respects and trusts. One of those people from his very close circle was me. Nikolaos told me in 2004: <"Someday you'll become a good player, but never a great one. But there is no doubt that you can become a great chess coach!"> Of course Nikolaos always exaggerated in order to make someone feel comfortable with himself, but he proved that his thoughts about me were sincere as he brought me into his team, where I started my first lessons with young kids. He knew that I had a special love of opening theory and that I devoted much of my chess study to that area, so he made me responsible for analysing the openings he wanted to teach to his most ambitious students."

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