2026 Team Championship of ESSAMTH POA Play off
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44 players participated in this 2-round tournament, held from 28 Feb 2026 to 01 Mar 2026 in Essamth, Greece. 4 titled players. Top 10 Elo average was 2090, and top seed was Dimitrios Ladopoulos (🇬🇷 GRE, FM, 2401).
Theodora Koutsogiannopoulou (🇬🇷 GRE, WCM, 1840) won with 2.0/2, ahead of Antonios Hadzimanolis (2.0) and Valerios Nasos (2.0).
The biggest upset came in round 1: Leonidas NA Antoniadis (1622) beat Georgios Gkogkolas (1874), a +252-point gap.
Location
🇬🇷Essamth, Greece
Dates
28 Feb 2026 → 01 Mar 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 · 2 rounds
Titled players · 4
FM×3
WCM×1
Federations · 1 represented
🇬🇷Greece×42
Top 3
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Standings
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| # | Player | Fed | Elo | Pts | Avg opp. | Perf | Δ Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | WCMKoutsogiannopoulou, Theodora | 🇬🇷GRE | 1840 | 2.0 | 1741 | 2541 | +7.2 |
| 1 | FMHadzimanolis, Antonios | 🇬🇷GRE | 2185 | 2.0 | 1793 | 2593 | +3.4 |
| 2 | Nasos, Valerios | 🇬🇷GRE | 1952 | 2.0 | 1950 | 2750 | +20.0 |
| 3 | FMMarkidis, Konstantinos | 🇬🇷GRE | 2283 | 2.0 | 1952 | 2752 | +5.2 |
| 4 | FMLadopoulos, Dimitrios | 🇬🇷GRE | 2401 | 2.0 | 2039 | 2839 | +2.1 |
| 5 | Gkountroumpis, Ioannis | 🇬🇷GRE | 1560 | 1.5 | 1512 | 1705 | +14.8 |
| 19 | Antonaki, Athina | 🇬🇷GRE | 1510 | 1.5 | 1521 | 1521 | 0.0 |
| 18 | Iliopoulos, Panagiotis | 🇬🇷GRE | 1760 | 1.5 | 1521 | 1521 | -12.0 |
| 6 | Tiakoudis, Zaharias | 🇬🇷GRE | 1708 | 1.5 | 1599 | 1792 | +4.4 |
| 43 | Demirtzoglou, Maria Rafailia | 🇬🇷GRE | 1739 | 1.0 | 1840 | 1040 | -14.4 |
| 12 | Eleftheriou, Vasileios | 🇬🇷GRE | 1531 | 1.0 | 1540 | 1540 | +2.0 |
| 10 | Krivas, Konstantinos | 🇬🇷GRE | 1523 | 1.0 | 1731 | 1731 | +21.6 |
| 11 | Tsaritsakis, Michail | 🇬🇷GRE | 1465 | 1.0 | 1492 | 1492 | -0.8 |
| 30 | Demirtzoglou, Aikaterini | 🇬🇷GRE | 0 | 1.0 | 1522 | 722 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Balafoutis, Ilias | 🇬🇷GRE | 1828 | 1.0 | 1622 | 2422 | +9.6 |
| 13 | Antoniadis, Leonidas NA | 🇬🇷GRE | 1622 | 1.0 | 1852 | 1852 | +22.8 |
| 8 | Koutsogoulas, Georgios | 🇬🇷GRE | 1827 | 1.0 | 1862 | 1862 | +1.8 |
| 7 | Tarchanidis, Nikolaos Christos | 🇬🇷GRE | 1769 | 1.0 | 1731 | 2531 | +18.0 |
| 16 | Koroglou, Viktor | 🇬🇷GRE | 2016 | 1.0 | 1682 | 2482 | +2.4 |
| 14 | Karakasidis, Michail | 🇬🇷GRE | 2095 | 1.0 | 1884 | 2684 | +9.2 |
| 27 | Lithoxoos, Theodoros | 🇬🇷GRE | 1800 | 0.5 | 2006 | 1813 | -1.0 |
| 26 | Leiloglou, Nikolaos | 🇬🇷GRE | 1681 | 0.5 | 1861 | 1668 | -1.8 |
| 25 | Papadopoulos, Pavlos | 🇬🇷GRE | 1512 | 0.5 | 1629 | 1436 | -8.0 |
| 38 | Spandonidis, Vasileios | 🇬🇷GRE | 1731 | 0.5 | 1768 | 968 | -18.0 |
| 17 | Ganiaridis, Panagiotis | 🇬🇷GRE | 1924 | 0.5 | 1826 | 1826 | -2.6 |
| 23 | Tsourgiannis, Nikolaos | 🇬🇷GRE | 1705 | 0.5 | 1521 | 1521 | -9.6 |
| 20 | Angelidis, Nikolaos | 🇬🇷GRE | 1574 | 0.5 | 1515 | 1515 | -2.0 |
| 21 | Antonoglou, Christos | 🇬🇷GRE | 1917 | 0.5 | 1944 | 1944 | +0.8 |
| 22 | Kamaretsos, Konstantinos | 🇬🇷GRE | 1944 | 0.5 | 1917 | 1917 | -0.8 |
| 24 | Kreonas, Dimitrios | 🇬🇷GRE | 0 | 0.5 | 1731 | 1731 | 0.0 |
| 28 | Demirtzoglou, Hrist | 🇬🇷GRE | 2076 | 0.0 | 2177 | 1377 | -16.0 |
| 39 | Konstantinidis, Mavroudis | 🇬🇷GRE | 1823 | 0.0 | 2088 | 1288 | -8.2 |
| 29 | Soilemetzidis, Konstantinos | 🇬🇷GRE | 1884 | 0.0 | 2190 | 1390 | -6.2 |
| 32 | Papadopoulos, Filippos NA | 🇬🇷GRE | 1569 | 0.0 | 1969 | 1169 | -3.2 |
| 37 | FIDE 541024184 | — | 0 | 0.0 | 1800 | 1000 | 0.0 |
| 40 | Salavasilis, Vasilios | 🇬🇷GRE | 2021 | 0.0 | 2283 | 1483 | -3.6 |
| 42 | Karagiannis, Athanasios NA | 🇬🇷GRE | 0 | 0.0 | 1760 | 960 | 0.0 |
| 41 | Polyzoidi, Panagiota | 🇬🇷GRE | 0 | 0.0 | 1741 | 941 | 0.0 |
| 34 | Gkogkolas, Georgios | 🇬🇷GRE | 1874 | 0.0 | 1622 | 822 | -32.4 |
| 36 | Politis, Anestis | 🇬🇷GRE | 0 | 0.0 | 1502 | 702 | -16.0 |
| 31 | Aptoglou, Athanasia | 🇬🇷GRE | 0 | 0.0 | 1517 | 717 | 0.0 |
| 33 | FIDE 42185319 | — | 0 | 0.0 | 1517 | 717 | 0.0 |
| 35 | Theodoridou, Ioanna | 🇬🇷GRE | 0 | 0.0 | 1760 | 960 | 0.0 |
| 44 | Karageorgis, Petros St | 🇬🇷GRE | 0 | 0.0 | 1613 | 813 | 0.0 |
Key insights
Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.
Top rating gainers
- 1Antoniadis, Leonidas NAGRE+22.81.0 pts · #13
- 2Krivas, KonstantinosGRE+21.61.0 pts · #10
- 3Nasos, ValeriosGRE+20.02.0 pts · #2
Top rating losers
- 1Gkogkolas, GeorgiosGRE-32.40.0 pts · #34
- 2Spandonidis, VasileiosGRE-18.00.5 pts · #38
- 3Demirtzoglou, HristGRE-16.00.0 pts · #28
Biggest upsets
- R1+252 Elo gap
- R2+124 Elo gap