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1st Invitational pool VCA - 5

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5 players participated in this 5-round tournament, held from 07 Mar 2026 to 04 Apr 2026 in Volos, Greece. Top 10 Elo average was 0, and top seed was Stamatios Polioras (🇬🇷 GRE, 1496).

Emmanouil Papathanasiou (🇬🇷 GRE, 0) won with 4.0/5, ahead of Grigorios Tympas (3.0) and Nikolaos Nyktas (2.0). Papathanasiou shared the lead from round 1, winning on tie-break.

Location
🇬🇷Volos, Greece
Dates
07 Mar 2026 → 04 Apr 2026
Time control
Standard: 90 minutes with 30 second increment from move 1
System
Round-robin · 5 rounds
Avg top 10
0
Participants
5
Federations · 1 represented
🇬🇷Greece×5
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 5 · 5 rounds

Emmanouil Papathanasiou led from R2 onwards, the runner-up race stayed tight. Title race narrowed from 3 co-leaders at R4 to 2 at the finish.

Co-leaders
2
1
3
3
2
#1#2#3#5R1R2R3R4R5
Papathanasiou#2Tympas#4Nyktas#5Bozas#1Parmaxis#3
R2–R5 · LEAD HELD

Emmanouil Papathanasiou never relinquished the lead after R2; final gap +1.0 over the runner-up.

R5 · HEAD-TO-HEAD · WINNER VS 2ND

Emmanouil Papathanasiou beat Grigorios Tympas (White).

R2–R4 · WIN STREAK

Grigorios Tympas won 3 in a row (R2–R4).

Cross-table

#PlayerElo12345PtsSBBhΔ EloPerf
2🇬🇷Papathanasiou, Emmanouil0*11114.07.007.00.0699
4🇬🇷Tympas, Grigorios00*1113.04.008.0-23.2699
5🇬🇷Nyktas, Nikolaos000*112.02.009.00.0699
1🇬🇷Bozas, Konstantinos0000*½1.50.259.50.01519
3🇬🇷Parmaxis, Ioannis Emmanouil0000½*0.50.7510.50.0699

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

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