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2026 youth championships of Chania - open U12

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14 players participated in this 7-round tournament, held from 20 Jan 2026 to 17 Feb 2026 in Chania, Greece. Top 10 Elo average was 1486, and top seed was Ioannis Kalligeris (🇬🇷 GRE, 1651).

Stavros Skoulas (🇬🇷 GRE, 1495) won with 5.0/7, ahead of Ioannis Kalligeris (5.0) and Michail Lampousakis (5.0). Skoulas shared the lead from round 1, winning on tie-break.

The biggest upset came in round 2: Michail Lampousakis (1494) beat Ioannis Kalligeris (1651), a +157-point gap.

Location
🇬🇷Chania, Greece
Dates
20 Jan 2026 → 17 Feb 2026
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 · 7 rounds
Top seed
🇬🇷Ioannis Kalligeris1651
Avg top 10
1,486
Participants
14
Federations · 1 represented
🇬🇷Greece×10
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 7 rounds

Tight race until R7; 3 players tied at 5.0/7, decided on Buchholz.

Co-leaders
6
2
1
1
1
1
3
23.55.57R1R2R3R4R5R6R7
Lampousakis5Skoulas5Kalligeris5Psarianos4.5Antonakis4.5Bouchlis4
R7 · TIEBREAK CLUSTER

3 players finish on 5.0/7. Skoulas takes the title on Buchholz Cut1 (26.0).

R3 · HEAD-TO-HEAD · WINNER VS 2ND

Michail Lampousakis lost to Stavros Skoulas (White).

WIN STREAKS · 2 top finishers

Stavros Skoulas 3 wins (R1–R3)Ioannis Kalligeris 4 wins (R4–R7)

Key matchups · top 4

Head-to-head between the four finishers
Player1234
1Michail Lampousakis*
0
1
0
2Stavros Skoulas
1
*
0
½
3Ioannis Kalligeris
0
1
*
0
4Emmanouil Psarianos
1
½
1
*

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4R5R6R7PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1Skoulas, Stavros1495GRE+12N+6B+3N=4B=5N+9B−2N5.026.027.017.501616+42.4
2Kalligeris, Ioannis1651GRE+9N−3B−4N+12B+8N+5B+1B5.026.027.017.501526-30.4
3Lampousakis, Michail1494GRE+13B+2N−1B+9N−4N+7B+6B5.025.526.517.001627+44.8
4Psarianos, Emmanouil1500GREF=5N+2B=1N+3B=6N+10B4.526.526.519.751681+58.0
5Antonakis, Lykourgos1414GRE+14N=4B=6N+10B=1B−2N+11N4.524.524.512.751559+52.0
6Bouchlis, Nikolaos1511GRE+10B−1N=5B+7N+11B=4B−3N4.026.029.014.501510+2.4
7Gkouvras, Konstantinos1477GREF+8B+13N−6B+10N−3N+14B4.017.017.08.001339-21.2
8FIDE 5410158600—+11B−7N−9B+14N−2B+13N+12B4.017.017.05.0013110.0
9Xeras, Ioannis1409GRE−2BF+8N−3B+12N−1N+13B3.021.021.06.00740-39.6
10Lampousakis, Dimitrios Christos1407GRE−6N+14B+11B−5N−7B+12N−4N3.021.021.04.0012300.0
11Kokogiannakis, Rafail1505GRE−8N+12B−10N+13B−6N+14N−5B3.017.517.52.00635-67.6
12FIDE 5410030710—−1B−11N+14B−2N−9B−10B−8N1.023.023.00.006850.0
13FIDE 421761310—−3NF−7B−11N+14B−8B−9N1.019.019.00.006630.0
14FIDE 421858820—−5B−10N−12N−8B−13N−11B−7N0.019.520.50.006390.0

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers
Top rating losers
Biggest upsets