2026 Team Championship of ESSAMTH POA East, Rounds 1-5
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77 players participated in this 5-round tournament, held from 01 Feb 2026 to 15 Feb 2026 in Essamth, Greece. 4 titled players. Top 10 Elo average was 2046, and top seed was Dimitrios Ladopoulos (🇬🇷 GRE, FM, 2401).
Georgios Gkogkolas (🇬🇷 GRE, 1875) won with 5.0/5, ahead of Ioannis Gkountroumpis (5.0) and Alexia Moshou (5.0). Gkogkolas shared the lead from round 1, winning on tie-break.
The biggest upset came in round 5: Georgios Koutsogoulas (1827) beat Antonios Hadzimanolis (FM, 2185), a +358-point gap.
Location
🇬🇷Essamth, Greece
Dates
01 Feb 2026 → 15 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
Team · 5 rounds
Titled players · 4
FM×3
WCM×1
Federations · 1 represented
🇬🇷Greece×52
Top 3
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Standings
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| # | Player | Fed | Elo | Pts | Avg opp. | Perf | Δ Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gkogkolas, Georgios | 🇬🇷GRE | 1875 | 5.0 | 1701 | 2501 | +43.2 |
| 4 | Gkountroumpis, Ioannis | 🇬🇷GRE | 1558 | 5.0 | 1499 | 2299 | +33.6 |
| 8 | Moshou, Alexia | 🇬🇷GRE | 1761 | 5.0 | 1736 | 2536 | +18.8 |
| 10 | Margkarian, Alexandros | 🇬🇷GRE | 1758 | 4.5 | 1767 | 1960 | +20.8 |
| 2 | Pastras, Ioannis | 🇬🇷GRE | 1721 | 3.5 | 1761 | 1856 | +14.4 |
| 3 | Papageorgiou, Paraskevas Efst | 🇬🇷GRE | 1707 | 3.0 | 1705 | 1830 | +10.0 |
| 18 | Iliopoulos, Panagiotis | 🇬🇷GRE | 1760 | 3.0 | 1538 | 2338 | +8.8 |
| 26 | Anagnostopoulos, Vasileios NA | 🇬🇷GRE | 1751 | 2.5 | 1927 | 1654 | -8.2 |
| 27 | Angelidis, Nikolaos | 🇬🇷GRE | 1575 | 2.5 | 1503 | 1503 | -2.8 |
| 28 | Madenas, Konstantinos | 🇬🇷GRE | 1502 | 2.5 | 1552 | 1552 | +2.8 |
| 48 | Antonaki, Athina | 🇬🇷GRE | 1521 | 2.0 | 1558 | 758 | -18.0 |
| 20 | FIDE 541024087 | — | 0 | 2.0 | 1517 | 1324 | 0.0 |
| 57 | Kouimtsidis, Georgios | 🇬🇷GRE | 1640 | 2.0 | 1758 | 958 | -6.8 |
| 5 | Balafoutis, Ilias | 🇬🇷GRE | 1828 | 2.0 | 1754 | 1879 | +10.4 |
| 7 | Koutsogoulas, Georgios | 🇬🇷GRE | 1827 | 2.0 | 1946 | 2746 | +24.8 |
| 41 | FIDE 42187222 | — | 0 | 2.0 | 1540 | 740 | 0.0 |
| 17 | Kampouris, Georgios | 🇬🇷GRE | 0 | 2.0 | 1592 | 1612 | 0.0 |
| 59 | Polyzoidi, Panagiota | 🇬🇷GRE | 0 | 2.0 | 1562 | 762 | 0.0 |
| 6 | FMLadopoulos, Dimitrios | 🇬🇷GRE | 2401 | 2.0 | 2001 | 2801 | +1.6 |
| 23 | Kostaki, Soultana | 🇬🇷GRE | 1631 | 1.5 | 1760 | 1567 | -6.4 |
| 29 | Kouvalakis, Andreas | 🇬🇷GRE | 1476 | 1.5 | 1558 | 758 | -15.6 |
| 9 | Aslanidis, Trifon | 🇬🇷GRE | 1895 | 1.5 | 1627 | 1820 | -2.0 |
| 11 | Karakasidis, Michail | 🇬🇷GRE | 2095 | 1.5 | 1790 | 1983 | -8.0 |
| 34 | Sadik, Ismail Ischak | 🇬🇷GRE | 1538 | 1.5 | 1760 | 960 | -4.4 |
| 12 | Koroglou, Viktor | 🇬🇷GRE | 2016 | 1.5 | 1684 | 1877 | -4.8 |
| 43 | Sidiras, Stefanos | 🇬🇷GRE | 1444 | 1.5 | 1702 | 902 | -7.2 |
| 54 | FIDE 4296877 | — | 0 | 1.0 | 1641 | 841 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Tsavlakidis, Leonidas | 🇬🇷GRE | 1673 | 1.0 | 1813 | 1813 | +14.8 |
| 16 | Tsourgiannis, Nikolaos | 🇬🇷GRE | 1706 | 1.0 | 1658 | 1658 | -3.6 |
| 69 | Tsimourdagkas, Christos | 🇬🇷GRE | 1641 | 1.0 | 1721 | 921 | -15.2 |
| 46 | Gavriilidis, Ippokratis | 🇬🇷GRE | 0 | 1.0 | 1686 | 886 | 0.0 |
| 19 | Maniati, Konstantina | 🇬🇷GRE | 1753 | 1.0 | 1668 | 1543 | -34.8 |
| 35 | FIDE 541024150 | — | 0 | 1.0 | 1530 | 730 | 0.0 |
| 32 | Spyridopoulos, Georgios | 🇬🇷GRE | 0 | 1.0 | 1700 | 900 | 0.0 |
| 40 | Kyrimalakis, Stavros | 🇬🇷GRE | 0 | 1.0 | 1744 | 944 | 0.0 |
| 60 | FIDE 42187249 | — | 0 | 1.0 | 1758 | 958 | 0.0 |
| 67 | Papatheodorou, Dimitrios Panagiotis | 🇬🇷GRE | 1416 | 1.0 | 1815 | 1015 | -3.2 |
| 66 | Chaloulas, Dimitrios Michail | 🇬🇷GRE | 0 | 1.0 | 1441 | 641 | 0.0 |
| 14 | FMMarkidis, Konstantinos | 🇬🇷GRE | 2283 | 1.0 | 1917 | 2717 | +2.0 |
| 15 | Antonoglou, Christos | 🇬🇷GRE | 1917 | 1.0 | 2047 | 2047 | +5.2 |
| 58 | FIDE 541008537 | — | 0 | 1.0 | 1690 | 890 | 0.0 |
| 76 | FIDE 25899287 | — | 0 | 1.0 | 1690 | 890 | 0.0 |
| 21 | FIDE 541024133 | — | 0 | 0.5 | 1434 | 1241 | 0.0 |
| 22 | Polyzoidis, Dimitrios | 🇬🇷GRE | 0 | 0.5 | 1630 | 1357 | 0.0 |
| 24 | Kroupi, Aikaterini | 🇬🇷GRE | 0 | 0.5 | 1538 | 1265 | 0.0 |
| 52 | FIDE 541006852 | — | 0 | 0.5 | 1527 | 727 | 0.0 |
| 25 | Mplitsa, Artemis | 🇬🇷GRE | 1667 | 0.5 | 1760 | 1760 | +2.6 |
| 73 | Karapanagiotis, Dimitrios | 🇬🇷GRE | 1709 | 0.0 | 1798 | 998 | -15.2 |
| 49 | FIDE 541024109 | — | 0 | 0.0 | 1492 | 692 | 0.0 |
| 75 | FIDE 541006828 | — | 0 | 0.0 | 1759 | 959 | 0.0 |
| 39 | WCMKoutsogiannopoulou, Theodora | 🇬🇷GRE | 1840 | 0.0 | 1759 | 959 | -12.2 |
| 51 | Tsagkarakis, Nikolaos Z | 🇬🇷GRE | 1540 | 0.0 | 1819 | 1019 | -14.0 |
| 56 | FIDE 541013484 | — | 0 | 0.0 | 1759 | 959 | 0.0 |
| 77 | FIDE 541024079 | — | 0 | 0.0 | 1558 | 758 | 0.0 |
| 36 | FIDE 42187370 | — | 0 | 0.0 | 1595 | 795 | 0.0 |
| 38 | Paschos, Grigorios | 🇬🇷GRE | 0 | 0.0 | 1758 | 958 | 0.0 |
| 47 | Stagkoglou, Dimitrios | 🇬🇷GRE | 0 | 0.0 | 1707 | 907 | 0.0 |
| 42 | FIDE 541008529 | — | 0 | 0.0 | 1760 | 960 | 0.0 |
| 33 | Chaloulas, Evangelos Gavriil | 🇬🇷GRE | 0 | 0.0 | 1476 | 676 | 0.0 |
| 45 | FIDE 42187338 | — | 0 | 0.0 | 1503 | 703 | 0.0 |
| 55 | FIDE 541019431 | — | 0 | 0.0 | 1552 | 752 | 0.0 |
| 61 | FIDE 25899295 | — | 0 | 0.0 | 1751 | 951 | 0.0 |
| 64 | FIDE 541006666 | — | 0 | 0.0 | 1552 | 752 | 0.0 |
| 65 | Davtyan, Artur R | 🇬🇷GRE | 0 | 0.0 | 1604 | 804 | 0.0 |
| 63 | Nasos, Valerios | 🇬🇷GRE | 1952 | 0.0 | 2352 | 1552 | -1.6 |
| 70 | FIDE 541024168 | — | 0 | 0.0 | 1705 | 905 | 0.0 |
| 71 | Kampouris, Alexandros | 🇬🇷GRE | 0 | 0.0 | 1828 | 1028 | -3.6 |
| 74 | FMHadzimanolis, Antonios | 🇬🇷GRE | 2185 | 0.0 | 1826 | 1026 | -18.0 |
| 37 | Kostikidis, Christos | 🇬🇷GRE | 1467 | 0.0 | 1850 | 1050 | -3.2 |
| 50 | Siakas, Evangelos | 🇬🇷GRE | 1813 | 0.0 | 1917 | 1117 | -14.4 |
| 53 | FIDE 541024060 | — | 0 | 0.0 | 1562 | 762 | 0.0 |
| 30 | FIDE 541008480 | — | 0 | 0.0 | 1562 | 762 | 0.0 |
| 31 | FIDE 42160324 | — | 0 | 0.0 | 1601 | 801 | 0.0 |
| 44 | FIDE 541008502 | — | 0 | 0.0 | 1613 | 813 | 0.0 |
| 62 | Retselas, Paraskevas | 🇬🇷GRE | 0 | 0.0 | 1426 | 626 | 0.0 |
| 68 | FIDE 541013492 | — | 0 | 0.0 | 1491 | 691 | 0.0 |
| 72 | Zisis, Michail F | 🇬🇷GRE | 0 | 0.0 | 1729 | 929 | 0.0 |
Key insights
Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.
Top rating gainers
- 1Gkogkolas, GeorgiosGRE+43.25.0 pts · #1
- 2Gkountroumpis, IoannisGRE+33.65.0 pts · #4
- 3Koutsogoulas, GeorgiosGRE+24.82.0 pts · #7
Top rating losers
- 1Maniati, KonstantinaGRE-34.81.0 pts · #19
- 2Hadzimanolis, AntoniosFMGRE-18.00.0 pts · #74
- 3Antonaki, AthinaGRE-18.02.0 pts · #48
Biggest upsets
- R5+358 Elo gap