Maria Kouvatsou

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Maria Kouvatsou at the 2016 Chess Olympiad in Baku
Association GreeceGreece Greece
Born November 2, 1979
Athens , Greece
title Grandmaster of Women (1999)
Current  Elo rating 2037 (October 2018)
Best Elo rating 2235 (July 2003)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Maria Kouvatsou ( Greek Μαρία Κουβάτσου , born November 2, 1979 in Athens ) is a Greek chess player .

When she was five years old, her parents moved to Chania , Crete . Since she was able to play chess, she has been a member of the AO Kydon Chania ( Kydon Sports Club ), with which she also played at the European Club Cup 2001 and the European Club Cup women in 2003, both in Crete, and with which she became Greek team champion in 2002 .

successes

In 1991 she got a bronze medal in her age group at the Greek championship. In 1999 she became the Greek U20 champion. In the same year in September she became U20 junior world champion in Yerevan , Armenia , making her the only Greek woman to win a world chess championship. In this tournament she was in the lead from the start. Although she lost her last two games, she had gained so much advantage by then that with the Czech Jana Jacková , the Romanian Szidónia Vajda and the American Irina Krush, three players only achieved the same number of points, but Kouvatsou due to the best rating Tournament winner was.

In 2000 Kouvatsou became Greek women's champion . In April 2001 she reached a 1-1 match against Anatoli Karpow in Rethymno , Crete. She even won the first game against him. In the same year in the FIDE - Women's World Chess Championship in Moscow (when they pass through a by FIDE President Ilyumzhinov could participate granted free place) she was eliminated in the first round against the seeded 12 Nataša Bojković out.

She likes to play the Alapin variant in the Sicilian .

Maria Kouvatsou was named Grand Master of Women (WGM) because of her victory at the World Junior Championships in 1999 .

She studied dentistry in Athens .

National team

Maria Kouvatsou took part with the Greek women's team in the 1998 , 2000 , 2002 and 2016 Chess Olympiads and the European Team Championships in 2001 and 2015 as reserve player.

Web links

Commons : Maria Kouvatsou  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maria Kouvatsou's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  2. ↑ Maria Kouvatsou's results at European Club Cups for women on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Maria Kouvatsou's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ Maria Kouvatsou's results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Kouvatsou, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Κουβάτσου, Μαρία (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION greek chess player
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd November 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens