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2025 Open Championship of Drama

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22 players participated in this 7-round tournament, held from 27 Dec 2025 to 30 Dec 2025 in Drama, Greece. Top 10 Elo average was 1722, and top seed was Markos Kazakos (🇬🇷 GRE, 2290).

Markos Kazakos (🇬🇷 GRE, 2290) won with 6.5/7, ahead of Hrist Demirtzoglou (6.0) and Konstantinos Krivas (4.5). Kazakos broke clear in the final round.

The biggest upset came in round 4: Michail Tsaritsakis (1455) beat Konstantinos Soilemetzidis (1936), a +481-point gap.

Location
🇬🇷Drama, Greece
Dates
27 Dec 2025 → 30 Dec 2025
Time control
Standard: 60 minutes with 30 seconds increment from move 1
System
Swiss · 7 rounds
Top seed
🇬🇷Markos Kazakos2290
Avg top 10
1,722
Participants
22
Federations · 1 represented
🇬🇷Greece×21
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 7 rounds

Markos Kazakos led from R7; +0.5-point edge over the runner-up. Title race converged from 2 co-leaders at R4 to 1 by R7.

Co-leaders
10
5
2
2
2
2
1
23.55.57R1R2R3R4R5R6R7
Kazakos6.5Demirtzoglou6Krivas4.5Kougioumtzis4.5Tononidis4.5Kelesidis4
R7–R7 · LEAD HELD

Markos Kazakos held the sole lead from R7 through R7 without losing it.

R4 · HEAD-TO-HEAD · WINNER VS 2ND

Markos Kazakos drew with Hrist Demirtzoglou (Black).

WIN STREAKS · 2 top finishers

Markos Kazakos 3+3 wins (R1–R3, R5–R7)Hrist Demirtzoglou 3 wins (R1–R3)

Key matchups · top 4

Head-to-head between the four finishers
Player1234
1Markos Kazakos*
½
1
1
2Hrist Demirtzoglou
½
*
½
1
3Konstantinos Krivas
0
½
*—
4Iordanis Kougioumtzis
0
0
—*

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4R5R6R7PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1Kazakos, Markos2290GRE+3B+5N+4B=2N+13B+7N+10B6.527.530.527.502321+2.4
2Demirtzoglou, Hrist2072GRE+20N+6B+13N=1B+11N+4B=3B6.026.027.522.002057+4.2
3Krivas, Konstantinos1436GRE−1N+16N=8B+5B+12N=6B=2N4.528.530.517.001743+88.0
4Kougioumtzis, Iordanis1622GRE+17N+11B−1N+9B+6N−2N=8B4.528.030.015.501799+17.8
5Tononidis, Anastasios1606GRE+19B−1B=10N−3N+14B+16N+11B4.523.525.012.001608-2.2
6Papadopoulos, Pavlos1515GRE+18B−2N+17B+7N−4B=3N=9B4.025.027.012.251533-3.2
7Eleftheriou, Vasileios1519GRE+9N+8B−12N−6B+21N−1B+19N4.023.524.510.501652+14.4
8Soilemetzidis, Konstantinos1936GRE+22B−7N=3N−11B+19N+12B=4N4.021.522.010.001365-52.4
9Kelesidis, Sotirios0GRE−7B+14N+19B−4N+16B=11B=6N4.021.022.510.2514560.0
10Demirtzoglou, Maria Rafailia0GRE−?B+18N=5B=16N+17B+13N−1N4.020.020.010.2517160.0
11Tsaritsakis, Michail1455GRE+15B−4N+21B+8N−2B=9N−5N3.525.526.59.501562+6.4
12Papadopoulos, Filippos NA0GRE=16B+22N+7B−13N−3B−8N+17B3.519.520.07.5014700.0
13Pastras, Ioannis1725GRE+14B+21N−2B+12B−1N−10BF3.024.024.07.501299-3.8
14Karageorgis, Petros St0GRE−13N−9B=15N+18B−5N=21B+22N3.017.017.54.258660.0
15Sarlidis, Rafail0GRE−11N−17B=14B+22N−?N−19B+20N2.512.012.03.508600.0
16Goutioudis, Zisis1482GRE=12N−3B+20N=10B−9N−5BF2.022.022.05.25720-18.8
17Karagiannis, Athanasios NA0GRE−4B+15N−6N+20B−10N−?B−12N2.020.020.04.008540.0
18Kourtidis, Michail0GRE−6N−10B=22B−14NF+20B=21N2.014.014.02.257180.0
19Karagiannis, Theodoros NA0GRE−5N=20B−9NF−8B+15N−7B1.520.520.53.258830.0
20Aptoglou, Athanasia0GRE−2B=19N−16B−17N+22B−18N−15B1.516.016.51.259840.0
21FIDE 421742790—F−13B−11NF−7B=14N=18B1.015.515.52.507760.0
22Demirtzoglou, Aikaterini0GRE−8N−12B=18N−15B−20NF−14B0.516.516.51.0011360.0

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers
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Biggest upsets
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