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Individual Championship Open U18 2025 East Crete

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13 players participated in this 5-round tournament, held from 26 Nov 2025 to 07 Dec 2025 in Heraklion Crete, Greece. Top 10 Elo average was 1609, and top seed was Ioannis Kartsakis (🇬🇷 GRE, 1825).

Dimitrios Saklampanakis (🇬🇷 GRE, 1815) won with 5.0/5, ahead of Grigorios Tamiolakis (3.5) and Ioannis Kartsakis (3.5). Saklampanakis won solo starting round 2.

The biggest upset came in round 4: Athanasios NA Georgopoulos (1441) beat Ektoras Papachronakis (1595), a +154-point gap.

Location
🇬🇷Heraklion Crete, Greece
Dates
26 Nov 2025 → 07 Dec 2025
Time control
Standard: 90 minutes for first 40 moves and 15 min. for the rest of the game with 30 sec. increment from move 1
System
Swiss · 5 rounds
Top seed
🇬🇷Ioannis Kartsakis1825
Avg top 10
1,609
Participants
13
Federations · 1 represented
🇬🇷Greece×13
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 5 rounds

Dimitrios Saklampanakis led from R2; +1.5-point edge over the runner-up.

Co-leaders
4
1
1
1
1
1.52.545R1R2R3R4R5
R2–R5 · LEAD HELD

Dimitrios Saklampanakis never relinquished the lead after R2; final gap +1.5 over the runner-up.

R3 · HEAD-TO-HEAD · WINNER VS 2ND

Dimitrios Saklampanakis beat Ioannis Kartsakis (Black).

R1–R5 · WIN STREAK

Dimitrios Saklampanakis won 5 in a row (R1–R5).

Key matchups · top 4

Head-to-head between the four finishers

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4R5PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1Saklampanakis, Dimitrios1815GRE+6N+4B+3N+2B+7N5.012.014.014.002407+50.8
2Tamiolakis, Grigorios1637GRE+7N=3B+9N1N+6B3.512.513.56.751802+44.0
3Kartsakis, Ioannis1825GRE+10B=2N1B+6N+9B3.511.512.55.751794-5.2
4Drakakis, Georgios Th1603GRE+12B1N6B+5N+10B3.010.511.04.001647+14.0
5Trelakas, Andreas1501GRE=9N6B+7N4B+12B2.58.08.53.001531+8.0
6Potamitis, Rafail1533GRE1B+5N+4N3B2N2.015.017.55.501602+15.2
7Georgopoulos, Athanasios NA1441GRE2B+12N5B+10N1B2.012.012.51.5015240.0
8Remediaki, Sofia Niki1467GREF+11NF+13BF2.01.01.01.002267+39.6
9Xenakis, Tryfon1650GRE=5B=10N2BF3N1.010.510.51.751447-42.8
10Papachronakis, Ektoras1595GRE3N=9B=12N7B4N1.09.510.00.751350-61.6
11Karkani, Maria Faidra1461GREF8B+13NFF1.02.02.00.001465-1.2
12Fasoulakis, Georgios1434GRE4N7B=10BF5N0.58.58.50.501212-38.8
13Vertoudou, Syllia Eleftheria1461GREFF11B8NF0.03.03.00.00673-38.4

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers
Top rating losers
Biggest upsets