Ioannis Nikolaidis (born 4 January 1971) is a Greek

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grandmaster (1995). He won the

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in 1995. and came third in the Balkan Individual Chess Championship of 2002 in

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. Nikolaidis played for

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in the

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s of 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006. Two times he played in chess balkaniads: 1993 and 1994. Other results include: 7th–11th with Zurab Sturua,

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, Angelos Vouldis and

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in the Zonal tournament in Panormo,

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1998, which was the qualifying tournament for the

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; third in the

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open 2000; first in the 16th international tournament in

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2008. In 2005, he tied for second–third places with

Maxim Turov Maxim Turov (; born 7 December 1979) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1999. Biography Turov participated in the 1st Children's Chess Olympiad, held in Linares in 1993, as part of Russia "A" team, whic ...

in the

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Chess Festival. In the May 2010

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list, he has an

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of 2490.

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* Chess Grandmasters Living people Greek chess players Chess Olympiad competitors 1971 births 20th-century Greek people 20th-century Greek sportsmen {{Greece-chess-bio-stub