National Master Petros Karagianis
Favorite Book: Zurich International, 1953
ICC: “Karagianis” Chess-Live: “demetrios”
Available for online or in-person lessons
Contact: Karagianis@gmail.com
GAMES
New Games November 06
Karagianis-Ehlvest Blindfold
Me versus a former top-ten in the world, where neither of us could see the board!
New Games Aug 06
Beauregard-Karagianis, Valley Club 8/6/06
Karagianis-Ho, Valley Club 8/6/06
37th Chess Olympiad
Round 4
Games May 18
Zamanian-Karagianis, Birds of Spring 06
An exchange sacrifice leads to an imbalanced position.
Karagianis-Ferguson, Birds of Spring 06
Modern Benoni
Karagianis-Zulic, Birds of Spring 06
A strange opening leads to a complicated middlegame.
New Games (April 25)
Karagianis, P vs. Hernandez, G [GM], Spring FIDE Invitational
Original kingside attack in a closed Benoni setup.
Three Games from the Heartland g/25 Rapid Championship
2 Games with Grandmasters: Mitkov and Georgiev and a third with a Catalan vs. Eric Rosen.
NM Karagianis, P. vs. Loncarevic, R. Midwest Amateur Team 2006 Round 2
A wild Blumensfeld where white sacrifices two pawns for development and black suddenly finds himself without the ability to move after 17. Nd6!
NM Karagianis, P. vs. Hart, V.Midwest Amateur Team Round 4
A sub-line transposition of the Queen’s Indian with innovative opening ideas.
NM Karagianis, P. vs. Smith, Jeff. GPO Round 2 An interesting endgame idea after rather humdrum play to that point.
Tournaments