The Acropolis International was a

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tournament held in

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. The longest running international chess tournament in Greece, the first event, an international invitation tournament was won by

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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

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Tour (ACP Tour). The 2009 open tournament took place in Chalkida on the island of

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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

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