Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis (born 7 June 1998) is a
Greek
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chess
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grandmaster. He is ranked 13th best player in Greece and his highest
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was 2553 (in April 2023).
He won the 2019
Greek Championship
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.
In 2020, he won the 13th Paleochora Open with a score of 7.5/9
He beat
GM Maxime Lagarde
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Chess career
Born in 1994, Lagarde earned his international master title in 2011 and his grandmaster title in 2013.
Lagarde finis ...
in round 9 of the European Championship, achieving the final score of 6/11.
Kourkoulos-Arditis became a
FIDE Master
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in 2014, an
International Master
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(IM) in 2018, and a grandmaster (GM) in 2023.
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1998 births
Living people
Greek chess players
Chess Grandmasters
21st-century Greek people