The Acropolis International is a chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 tournament held in Athens

Athens

Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...

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The longest running international chess tournament in Greece

Greece

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, the first event was won by Luděk Pachman

Ludek Pachman

Luděk Pachman was a Czechoslovak-German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and political activist. In 1972, after being imprisoned and tortured almost to death by the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, he was allowed to emigrate to West Germany...

 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, totaling 22 tournaments through 2007.

The 2007 tournament was part of the Association of Chess Professionals

Association of Chess Professionals

The Association of Chess Professionals is a not-for-profit organisation, the closest thing in existence to a trade union for professional chess players. According to Article 2 of its terms:-History:...

Tour (ACP Tour).

Winners

Acropolis International in Athens

#	Year	Winner
1	1968
2	1977
3	1978
4	1979
5	1980
6	1982
7	1983
8	1984
9	1985
10	1986
11	1987
12	1988
13	1989
14	1991
15	1992
16	1993
17	1997
18	2003
19	2004
20	2005
21	2006
22	2007
23	2008