{"id":41703,"date":"2025-12-12T14:46:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/?p=41703"},"modified":"2025-12-12T14:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:49:11","slug":"vangelis-patrelakis-and-maria-tsakona-crowned-greek-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/vangelis-patrelakis-and-maria-tsakona-crowned-greek-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Vangelis Patrelakis and Maria Tsakona crowned Greek champions"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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IM Vangelis Patrelakis<\/strong> and WFM Maria Tsakona<\/strong> emerged as the winners of the Panhellenic Individual Championship in the open and women\u2019s categories, respectively, each claiming their maiden national title.<\/p>

The 74th Panhellenic Championship and the 47th Panhellenic Women’s Championship were held concurrently in Aigio, Western Greece, from December 3 to 11. Both events followed a 10-player round-robin format under classical time controls.<\/p>

The 74th Panhellenic Championship was one of the most exciting in recent years, marked by an exceptionally close contest. Notably, no player finished the tournament unbeaten, with three participants\u2014GMs Vasilios Kotronias<\/strong>, defending champion Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis<\/strong>, along with IM Vangelis Patrelakis\u2014entering the final round tied for first place on 5\/9 points.<\/p>

Kotronias and Kourkoulos-Arditis drew their final games, while the 21-year-old Patrelakis secured a crucial victory over Konstantinos Tsarsitalidis to clinch the title.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Kotronias and Kourkoulos-Arditis shared second place with 5.5\/9 points, with Kotronias taking silver on the basis of a superior Sonneborn\u2013Berger score (the third tiebreaker).<\/p>

Final standings \u2013 Open<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>

In the 47th Panhellenic Women\u2019s Championship, 19-year-old WFM Maria Tsakona dominated the field, securing the title with a round to spare and an impressive score of 7.5\/9.<\/p>

Andrianna Anastasopoulou<\/strong> finished two points behind the champion to earn silver, while last year\u2019s winner, WFM Georgia Grapsa<\/strong>, completed the podium with 5\/9 points, reaffirming her consistent presence among Greece\u2019s top female players.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Final standings – Women<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThis year\u2019s Championship was a true celebration of Greek chess\u2014high-stakes, intensely competitive, with new talents dynamically vying for their place among the country\u2019s top players. ESO will continue to support the young generation and take initiatives to elevate chess across Greece,\u201d said Professor Stathis Evstathopoulos<\/strong>, President of the Greek Chess Federation, at the closing ceremony.<\/p>

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IM Vangelis Patrelakis and WFM Maria Tsakona emerged as the winners of the Panhellenic Individual Championship in the open and women\u2019s categories, respectively, each claiming their maiden national title. The 74th Panhellenic Championship and the 47th Panhellenic Women’s Championship were held concurrently in Aigio, Western Greece, from December 3 to 11. Both events followed a 10-player round-robin format under classical time controls. The 74th Panhellenic Championship was one of the most exciting in recent years, marked by an exceptionally close contest. Notably, no player finished the tournament unbeaten, with three participants\u2014GMs Vasilios Kotronias, defending champion Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis, along with IM Vangelis Patrelakis\u2014entering the final round tied for first place on 5\/9 points. Kotronias and Kourkoulos-Arditis drew their final games, while the 21-year-old Patrelakis secured a crucial victory over Konstantinos Tsarsitalidis to clinch the title. Kotronias and Kourkoulos-Arditis shared second place with 5.5\/9 points, with Kotronias taking silver on the basis of a superior Sonneborn\u2013Berger score (the third tiebreaker). Final standings \u2013 Open In the 47th Panhellenic Women\u2019s Championship, 19-year-old WFM Maria Tsakona dominated the field, securing the title with a round to spare and an impressive score of 7.5\/9. Andrianna Anastasopoulou finished two points behind the champion to earn silver, while last year\u2019s winner, WFM Georgia Grapsa, completed the podium with 5\/9 points, reaffirming her consistent presence among Greece\u2019s top female players. Final standings – Women \u201cThis year\u2019s Championship was a true celebration of Greek chess\u2014high-stakes, intensely competitive, with new talents dynamically vying for their place among the country\u2019s top players. ESO will continue to support the young generation and take initiatives to elevate chess across Greece,\u201d said Professor Stathis Evstathopoulos, President of the Greek Chess Federation, at the closing ceremony. Photos: Greek Chess Federation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[182,297],"regular":[],"sticky-post":[],"class_list":["post-41703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chess-news","tag-greece","tag-national-championship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41703"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41717,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41703\/revisions\/41717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41703"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=41703"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=41703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}