Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis | |
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Country | Greece |
Born | 7 June 1998 26) | (age
Title | Grandmaster (2023) |
FIDE rating | 2576 (December 2024) |
Peak rating | 2576 (December 2024) |
Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis (born 7 June 1998) is a Greek chess grandmaster. He is ranked 13th best player in Greece [1] and his highest rating was 2553 (in April 2023). [2]
He won the 2019 Greek Championship. [3]
In 2020, he won the 13th Paleochora Open with a score of 7.5/9 [4]
He beat GM Maxime Lagarde in round 9 of the European Championship, achieving the final score of 6/11. [5]
Kourkoulos-Arditis became a FIDE Master in 2014, an International Master (IM) in 2018, and a grandmaster (GM) in 2023.
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Kourkoulos-Arditis, Stamatis
Kourkoulos-Arditis, Stamatis