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GM Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis

Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis

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Full name

Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis

Born

1/1/1998 (age 27)‎

Place of birth

Federation

Greece

Rating

Bio

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Most Played Openings

White Pieces

Queen's Gambit Declined: Catalan Opening (7 games)

Catalan Opening: Open Defense, Classical Line (7 games)

English Opening: Anglo-Indian, King's Indian Defense (7 games)

Queen's Gambit Declined (5 games)

Sicilian Defense: Open, Najdorf, English Attack (5 games)

Black Pieces

Sicilian Defense: Taimanov, Bastrikov Variation (12 games)

French Defense: Tarrasch, Morozevich Variation (6 games)

King's Indian Defense: Normal Variation (4 games)

Sicilian Defense: Taimanov, Bastrikov, English Attack (4 games)

Queen's Indian Defense: Fianchetto, Nimzowitsch Variation (4 games)

Games

Players	Result	Moves	Year
Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis (2759) Matthew Guo Diao (2547)	1-0	27	2025
Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis (2760) Adrian Estiven Abad Huaman (2412)	1-0	59	2025
Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis (2763) Gaston Needleman (2317)	0-1	49	2025
Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis (2549) Jaiveer Mahendru (2294)	1-0	42	2024
Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis (2549) Spyridon Kapnisis (2431)	1-0	51	2024
Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis (2549) Jakub Kosakowski (2479)	1-0	46	2024
Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis (2721) Jean Meunier-Pion (2527)	1-0	54	2024
Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis (2729) Viacheslav Tikhonov (2511)	1-0	49	2024
Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis (2740) Giorgio Belli (2415)	1-0	70	2024
Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis (2710) Laura Unuk (2399)	1-0	34	2024

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