2026 Team Cup of ESSK
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50 players participated in this 4-round tournament, held from 14 Mar 2026 to 03 May 2026 in Heraklion Crete, Greece. 6 titled players. Top 10 Elo average was 2235, and top seed was Sotirios Malikentzos (🇬🇷 GRE, IM, 2436).
Emmanouil Mavridis (🇬🇷 GRE, 2096) won with 2.0/4, ahead of Alexandros Rigopoulos-Tsigkos (2.0) and Georgios Milonakis (2.0). Mavridis shared the lead from round 3, winning on tie-break.
The biggest upset came in round 1: Sotirios Georgios Koukouliatas (1584) beat Danai Agnanti (1793), a +209-point gap.
Location
🇬🇷Heraklion Crete, Greece
Dates
14 Mar 2026 → 03 May 2026
Time control
Standard: 90min/40moves+30min/end+30sec increment per move starting from move 1
System
Team · 4 rounds
Titled players · 6
IM×4
FM×1
CM×1
Federations · 1 represented
🇬🇷Greece×46
Top 3
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Standings
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| # | Player | Fed | Elo | Pts | Avg opp. | Perf | Δ Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mavridis, Emmanouil | 🇬🇷GRE | 2096 | 2.0 | 1875 | 2675 | +17.6 |
| 2 | Rigopoulos-Tsigkos, Alexandros | 🇬🇷GRE | 2069 | 2.0 | 2052 | 2177 | +7.8 |
| 3 | CMMilonakis, Georgios | 🇬🇷GRE | 2210 | 2.0 | 2172 | 2297 | +7.0 |
| 23 | Potamitis, Rafail | 🇬🇷GRE | 1537 | 2.0 | 1728 | 2528 | +30.0 |
| 4 | Bakalis, Konstantinos | 🇬🇷GRE | 1841 | 1.5 | 1674 | 1867 | +4.4 |
| 5 | IMLirindzakis, Timotheos | 🇬🇷GRE | 2103 | 1.5 | 1876 | 2069 | -0.7 |
| 11 | FMPapadopoulos, Argirios | 🇬🇷GRE | 2069 | 1.0 | 1857 | 2657 | +4.6 |
| 14 | IMChristodoulou, Panagiotis | 🇬🇷GRE | 2382 | 1.0 | 2069 | 2869 | +1.4 |
| 25 | IMGkoumas, Georgios | 🇬🇷GRE | 2433 | 1.0 | 2210 | 3010 | +2.2 |
| 6 | Gratseas, Stefanos | 🇬🇷GRE | 1970 | 1.0 | 1960 | 1960 | -0.4 |
| 12 | Stefanatos, Nikolaos | 🇬🇷GRE | 1918 | 1.0 | 1937 | 1937 | +1.0 |
| 22 | Simantirakis, Apolon | 🇬🇷GRE | 1897 | 1.0 | 1796 | 1796 | -3.2 |
| 16 | Naoum, Spyridon | 🇬🇷GRE | 2363 | 1.0 | 1963 | 2763 | +1.6 |
| 17 | Nteneketzis, Paraskevas | 🇬🇷GRE | 1727 | 1.0 | 1750 | 2550 | +21.2 |
| 8 | Diamantis, Angelos | 🇬🇷GRE | 1870 | 1.0 | 1870 | 1870 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Hatzidakis, Nikolaos | 🇬🇷GRE | 1752 | 1.0 | 1643 | 1643 | -5.6 |
| 15 | Saklampanakis, Dimitrios | 🇬🇷GRE | 1860 | 1.0 | 1785 | 1785 | -4.8 |
| 9 | IMMalikentzos, Sotirios | 🇬🇷GRE | 2436 | 1.0 | 2036 | 2836 | +0.8 |
| 21 | Liargovas, Dimitrios | 🇬🇷GRE | 1971 | 1.0 | 1858 | 2658 | +7.0 |
| 7 | Bairamian, Artur | 🇬🇷GRE | 1991 | 1.0 | 1691 | 2491 | +3.0 |
| 13 | Christodoulakis, Michail Em | 🇬🇷GRE | 1573 | 1.0 | 1752 | 2552 | +29.6 |
| 18 | Koukouliatas, Sotirios Georgios | 🇬🇷GRE | 1584 | 1.0 | 1793 | 2593 | +15.4 |
| 19 | Kazakos, Nikolaos | 🇬🇷GRE | 2144 | 1.0 | 1853 | 2653 | +3.0 |
| 20 | Georgakakis, Michail | 🇬🇷GRE | 1874 | 1.0 | 1829 | 2629 | +8.8 |
| 24 | Kyriakogiannakis, Ioannis | 🇬🇷GRE | 1596 | 1.0 | 1793 | 2593 | +30.4 |
| 45 | FIDE 541009460 | — | 0 | 1.0 | 1572 | 772 | 0.0 |
| 29 | Loukakis, Nikolaos | 🇬🇷GRE | 1858 | 0.5 | 2011 | 1738 | -20.4 |
| 27 | Psarianou, Eleni | 🇬🇷GRE | 1814 | 0.5 | 1838 | 1838 | +1.2 |
| 30 | Pappas, Konstantinos | 🇬🇷GRE | 1898 | 0.5 | 2103 | 2103 | +5.2 |
| 26 | Spirou, Gerasimos | 🇬🇷GRE | 1803 | 0.5 | 1858 | 1858 | +1.6 |
| 28 | Manouras, Georgios | 🇬🇷GRE | 0 | 0.5 | 1464 | 1464 | 0.0 |
| 46 | Eleftherakis, Panagiotis | 🇬🇷GRE | 1853 | 0.0 | 2114 | 1314 | -10.8 |
| 31 | Kalaitzoglou, Panayotis | 🇬🇷GRE | 2113 | 0.0 | 2210 | 1410 | -7.4 |
| 44 | Volani, Olga | 🇬🇷GRE | 1726 | 0.0 | 1539 | 739 | -30.0 |
| 38 | Benakis, Ioannis | 🇬🇷GRE | 1857 | 0.0 | 2069 | 1269 | -9.2 |
| 34 | FIDE 541018273 | — | 0 | 0.0 | 1539 | 739 | 0.0 |
| 39 | Agnanti, Danai | 🇬🇷GRE | 1793 | 0.0 | 1589 | 789 | -30.6 |
| 49 | Papachronakis, Ektoras | 🇬🇷GRE | 1533 | 0.0 | 1838 | 1038 | -5.6 |
| 32 | Nichlos, Antonios | 🇬🇷GRE | 1710 | 0.0 | 1970 | 1170 | -3.6 |
| 33 | Koumis, Filippos | 🇬🇷GRE | 1691 | 0.0 | 1991 | 1191 | -3.0 |
| 35 | Kallimoukos, Vasileios | 🇬🇷GRE | 1560 | 0.0 | 1750 | 950 | -10.0 |
| 36 | Remediakis, Ioannis | 🇬🇷GRE | 1500 | 0.0 | 1857 | 1057 | -2.2 |
| 37 | Agnantis, Dimitrios | 🇬🇷GRE | 1751 | 0.0 | 1571 | 771 | -14.8 |
| 41 | Despotakis, Vasilios | 🇬🇷GRE | 1829 | 0.0 | 1874 | 1074 | -8.8 |
| 42 | Serlidakis, Konstantinos | 🇬🇷GRE | 1444 | 0.0 | 1845 | 1045 | -3.2 |
| 47 | Tsihlis, Ioannis | 🇬🇷GRE | 1805 | 0.0 | 1918 | 1118 | -7.0 |
| 48 | Papanastasiou, Christos | 🇬🇷GRE | 1463 | 0.0 | 1863 | 1063 | -3.2 |
| 40 | Manouras, Eleftherios | 🇬🇷GRE | 0 | 0.0 | 1554 | 754 | 0.0 |
| 43 | FIDE 42173566 | — | 0 | 0.0 | 1493 | 693 | 0.0 |
| 50 | FIDE 25818180 | — | 0 | 0.0 | 1707 | 907 | 0.0 |
Key insights
Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.
Top rating gainers
- 1Kyriakogiannakis, IoannisGRE+30.41.0 pts · #24
- 2Potamitis, RafailGRE+30.02.0 pts · #23
- 3Christodoulakis, Michail EmGRE+29.61.0 pts · #13
Top rating losers
- 1Agnanti, DanaiGRE-30.60.0 pts · #39
- 2Volani, OlgaGRE-30.00.0 pts · #44
- 3Loukakis, NikolaosGRE-20.40.5 pts · #29
Biggest upsets
- R1+209 Elo gap
- R2+197 Elo gap
- R2+189 Elo gap