Georgios Souleidis
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 Germany (until 2000) Greece (since 2000)
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| Born | July 6, 1972 Hagen |
| title | International champion (1999) |
| Current Elo rating | 2428 (August 2020) |
| Best Elo rating | 2440 (October 2008) |
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Georgios Souleidis ( Greek Γιώργος Σουλεϊδης , born July 6, 1972 in Hagen ) is a chess player who originally played for the German Chess Federation and has been playing for the Greek Chess Federation since July 2000.
Life
Souleidis attended the Rahel Varnhagen College in Hagen. He studied journalism and communication science at the Ruhr University Bochum . He graduated in 2007.
In addition to his work as a chess player and trainer, he is also active as a journalist and author . He works as the editor in charge of the website of the German Chess League and publishes articles on chess for Spiegel and the German Press Agency, among others . He ran the blog Entwicklungsvorsprung.de , which was the most popular chess blog in German in the late 2000s , and wrote a regular chess column on the derwesten.de portal .
In June 2019 Souleidis opened his YouTube channel called “The Big Greek”, on which he presents basic knowledge, tactics and analyzes of grandmaster games. Souleidis and its YouTube channel will gain more attention from spring 2020 after the COVID-19 pandemic caused the game of chess to grow in popularity. The channel has around 61,500 subscribers and was viewed over 8.0 million times (as of August 2020). This makes it one of the largest German-speaking chess channels. His video "The golden opening rules ", in which he explains the most important opening rules to chess beginners, is the most successful video of a German chess channel (as of the end of July 2020).
Since spring 2020, Souleidis has also been streaming regularly on Twitch and organizing online tournaments on the online chess platform Lichess .
successes
Georgios Souleidis has held the title of International Master since 1999 . He achieved the norms for this in the NRW Oberliga 1998/99, the IBIS Masters 1998 in Gelsenkirchen and the M-Open 1999, also in Gelsenkirchen. In February 2015 he is in 19th place in the Greek Elo ranking.
In 1990, 1995 and 1999 he was city champion of Wetter an der Ruhr , also in 1999 he won the open city championship of Oberhausen . In June 1992 he won the 2nd International Open in Kleve , in June 1993 the Tower Open in Lippstadt- Bad Waldliesborn . In April 2008 he won the Easter Open in Oberhausen.
In the German Federal Chess League he played until 2009 for Sportfreunde Katernberg , of which he had been a member since 1999, and then moved to SV Wattenscheid . Since 2013 he has been playing for the second team of Hamburger SK in the 2nd Bundesliga. Before that he played at SVG Ruhrtal Wetter , then at SG Bochum 31 , SK Herne Sodingen , Turm Duisburg and again Ruhrtal Wetter . At the European Club Cup 2003 in Rethymno he took part on the third board of the Greek team Kydon SC Blue Star Ferries Chania . With the club from Crete he won the Greek team championship six times, in the years 2000 to 2004 and 2006. In 2009 he moved to SAS Koropi . He also played club chess in Spain, during a one-year study visit to Madrid for La Casa de Ajedrez , with whom he won the Madrid club championship, and later for Servigar Binissalem , with whom he became Balearic Champion. In the Dutch Meester class he played for ESGO Enschede from 2004 to 2006 and for Homburg Apeldoorn from 2006 to 2008 . In France he has been playing for Metz Fischer's second team since 2006 .
innovation
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Position after 11.… Rf8 – e8
A chess game selected for the chess informator because of an innovation by Souleidis in the exchange variant of the Chigorin defense , which he played in the first round of the Club Cup 2003 against the Georgian grandmaster Merab Gagunashvili , was considered one of the most beautiful by Viktor Korchnoi and Mikhail Gurevich Games of the informer 89 estimated.
The rook move prepares the surprising bishop move 12.… Bc8 – f5. The white pawn on e4 cannot capture the bishop, as otherwise Nf6 – d5 threatens to lose the game. Souleidis won against the grandmaster, who was rated more than 200 Elo points:
1. d2 – d4 d7 – d5 2. c2 – c4 Nb8 – c6 3. c4xd5 Dd8xd5 4. e2 – e3 e7 – e5 5. Nb1 – c3 Bf8 – b4 6. Lc1 – d2 Lb4xSc3 7. b2xLc3 Ng8 – f6 8. f2 – f3 0–0 9. e3 – e4 Qd5 – d6 10. Bd2 – e3 e5xd4 11. c3xd4 Rf8 – e8 12. Qd1 – d2 Bc8 – f5 13. Bf1 – e2 Bf5xe4 14. f3xBe4 Nf6xe4 15. Qd2 – b2 Ne4 –G3 16. h2xNg3 Re8xBe3 17. 0–0–0 Nc6 – b4 18. Be2 – c4 b7 – b5 19. Bc4xf7 + Kg8xBf7 20. Qb2 – f2 + Qd6 – f6 (the white queen cannot take the uncovered rook on e3 because of… Qf6 – c6 +) 21. Qf2xQf6 + Kf7xQf6 22. Rd1 – f1 + Kf6 – g6 23. Ng1 – f3 h7 – h6 24. Nf3 – h4 + Kg6 – h7 25. Rf1 – f7 Re3xg3 26. Rf7xc7 Ra8 – f8 27. Rc7xa7 Rf8 28. Kc1-b1 Nb4-d5 29. Kb1-a1 b5-b4 30. Ra7-a5 Rg3-a3. 0–1 Gagunashvili gave up.
Publications
- With Bernard Verfürden and Sebastian Siebrecht : The strongest league in the world. Analysis - Reports - Statistics . Deep Chess, Ratingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-021220-8 .
- "I always wanted to write" . In: KARL , 27, 2010, 2, pp. 46–53
- With Karsten Müller : Winning with the Slow (but Venomous!) Italian . New in Chess, Alkmaar 2016, ISBN 978-90-5691-674-9 .
- German edition: Italian with c3 and d3 - solid and poisonous . Joachim-Beyer-Verlag, Eltmann 2017, ISBN 978-3-95920-056-1 .
- With Dirk Sebastian : TP Chess Puzzle Book 2016 . Thinkers Publishing, Nevele 2017, ISBN 978-94-92510-10-5 .
- The Open Games - A detailed overview . ChessBase DVD, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-86681-679-4 .
Web links
- Replayable chess games by Georgios Souleidis on 365Chess.com (English)
- Development lead - 8 2 is not enough
- Schwatt & Weiß ( Memento from May 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) - Georgios Souleidis blogs at DerWesten.de about the colorful world of chess
- The Big Greek . Georgios Souleidis' YouTube channel
- TheBigGreekChess . Georgios Souleidis' Twitch channel
Individual evidence
- ^ Georgios Souleidis | ChessBase. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Interview in the magazine Schach , issue 4/2008
- ^ The Big Greek. Accessed April 7, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Hartmut Metz: Online chess more popular than ever: Boom on the board . In: The daily newspaper: taz . April 15, 2020, ISSN 0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed July 26, 2020]).
- ↑ The golden rules of opening. Accessed July 3, 2020 (German).
- ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 113
- ↑ Georgios Souleidis' results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
- ↑ The Ten Best Games of Chess , Informant 89 ( Memento from March 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) ( PDF ; 257 kB; English)
- ^ Analysis of the chess game by Georgios Souleidis from July 16, 2019 on YouTube
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Souleidis, Georgios |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Σουλεϊδης, Γιώργος (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | greek chess player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hagen |