54th Greek Team Chess Championship: Patras 2026

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Basic data

54th Greek Team Chess Championship
(see all-time tournament summary)
Dates: 4th - 10th July 2026
City: Patras (Greece)
Venue: EA Patron indoor gymnasium, Ipeirou 8 and Favierou
Organizers: Greek Chess Federation (ESO); EA Patron; Region of Western Greece; Municipality of Patras
Tournament Director: Sotirios Christodoulou
Chief Arbiter: Alexios Spiliopoulos
Arbiters: Pairings: Christos Bousios.
Other officials: Communication: Alexandra Tziferi. Internet broadcasts: Aris Rodopoulos.
Eligible: Boards 1-4: open; board 5: women; board 6: girls U20; board 7: girls U16; boards 8-10: open U20, U16 and U12 respectively.
Seeding: Average FIDE standard rating of the declared basic ten-player composition.
Teams participating: 34
Players participating: 641 (incl. 15 GMs, 23 IMs, 45 FMs, 3 WIMs, 17 CMs, 7 WFMs and 2 WCMs)
Games played: 1190 (6 games were forfeited)
Competition format: 34 teams; seven-round Swiss; ten boards per match.
Final order decided by: Match points (2/1/0); Olympiad Sonneborn-Berger excluding the weakest opponent; board points; opponents' match points excluding the weakest opponent; cumulative board scores in board order.
Time control: 40 moves in 90 minutes, then 30 minutes to finish; 30 seconds increment from move 1. Default time: 60 minutes. Draw offers before move 30 prohibited.
Website: Official tournament website
Other websites: Standings, rosters and board results
Official final-phase regulations
Final-phase regulations
General regulations 2026
Official final bulletin
Published board classification and rules
Sources: Greek Chess Federation; Chess-Results 1447914; TWIC 1652 and 1653; official FIDE July 2026 standard rating list.
Published individual board list
OFI: individual U12 bronze award
Data notes: All 1,190 results, 119 match scores and individual statistics checked against Chess-Results. All 590 TWIC records preserved: 588 with moves. Official July 2026 FIDE standard ratings used; 19 national fallback ratings omitted. Six defaults annotated, including one source record with an initial move. Board awards: points, fewer games, performance; at least 55 percent of rounds; most-played board, smaller board number on a tie; defaults excluded. All 30 podium places match the published board classification. Some performance figures differ for unrated opponents without changing the medal recipients.
PGN game file: 2026greece.pgn


Tournament review

Panathinaikos AO won on Sonneborn-Berger ahead of SO Kavalas, both on 13 MP. OFI took bronze with 10 MP.

Best board results

Board 1
no. name flag team pts gms Elop
1. GM Mastrovasilis, Athanasios GRE IONT 6½ 7 2649
2. GM Ioannidis, Evgenios GRE AMOG 5½ 7 2584
3. FM Papadopoulos, Georgios GRE MACH 5½ 7 2568

Board 2
no. name flag team pts gms Elop
1. IM Vlachos, Anatole GRE IRAK 6 7 2583
2. GM Alexakis, Dimitris GRE PANA 5½ 7 2617
3. Georgakopoulos, Nikolaos K. GRE CHAN 5 7 2407

Board 3
no. name flag team pts gms Elop
1. Spyratos, Nikolaos GRE PANN 5 7 2357
2. Giannopoulos, Iasonas GRE ASOA 5 7 2286
3. FM Makridis, Dimitrios GRE EVOI 4½ 6 2461

Board 4
no. name flag team pts gms Elop
1. Tsarsitalidis, Christos GRE LEPY 5 7 2309
2. Kazakos, Markos GRE IRAK 5 7 2308
3. Valsamis, Alexandros GRE SPZK 5 7 2282

Board 5
no. name flag team pts gms Elop
1. IM Tsolakidou, Stavroula GRE KVLA 6 7 2440
2. WIM Kondou, Eva GRE IPPO 5½ 7 2125
3. WFM Kalmykova, Anastasia RUS NPSY 5½ 7 2111

Board 6
no. name flag team pts gms Elop
1. Vardaka, Sofia GRE KVLA 6 7 2206
2. Tsapaki, Asimenia GRE OFIR 6 7 2105
3. Christodoulou, Georgia GRE EAPA 6 7 2081

Board 7
no. name flag team pts gms Elop
1. WCM Lampou, Marianta GRE PANN 7 7 2368
2. Petkaki, Danai GRE IRAK 6½ 7 2038
3. Psarianou, Eleni GRE CHAN 6½ 7 1952

Board 8
no. name flag team pts gms Elop
1. CM Raptis, Filippos BEL EVOI 5½ 7 2443
2. Palaiologou, Apostolos GRE SPZK 5½ 7 2219
3. CM Papaioannou, Dimitrios GRE ESTH 5 7 2286

Board 9
no. name flag team pts gms Elop
1. Bougas, Georgios GRE KALA 6 7 2151
2. Pitsakis, Ilias GRE PEIR 5½ 7 2118
3. FM Gkavardinas, Antonios GRE PANA 4½ 5 2501

Board 10
no. name flag team pts gms Elop
1. Zacharakis, Ilias GRE NPSY 6 7 2030
2. Alexandrakis, Vasileios Sp. GRE AMOG 5½ 7 1912
3. ACM Tamiolakis, Grigorios GRE OFIR 5½ 7 1898

Board ranking: game points, fewer games, then performance; minimum 55% of rounds (four games), most-played board (ties: lower board number), forfeits excluded. Independent calculation reproduces all 30 top-three positions. OFI confirms an individual bronze award on the U12 board. Some numerical performance values differ from the published table without changing these top-three positions.