Spyridon Skembris

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Spyridon Skembris, Karlsruhe 2016
Association GreeceGreece Greece
Born February 22, 1958
Corfu , Greece
title International Master (1981)
Grand Master (1990)
Current  Elo rating 2420 (September 2020)
Best Elo rating 2565 (January 1993)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Spyridon Skembris ( Greek Σπυρίδων «Σπύρος» Σκέμπρης , born February 22, 1958 in Corfu ) is a Greek chess player .

Life

In 1977 Skembris was tied for third at the Junior World Championship .
The FIDE awarded him in 1981 the title of International Master . He became the grandmaster in 1990.

He works as a trainer, both as a national coach in Greece and in his German chess club SK Freiburg-Zähringen 1887 .
Together with Bettina Trabert , who bears the title of Grand Master of Women , Spyridon Skembris is the father of a son.

Tournaments

Skembris won the Greek national championship four times : 1981, 1984, 1989 and 1993.

He also had successes later, such as in 2007 at the Bad Wörishofen Chess Festival and at the 62nd Greek Championship in 2012, each coming fourth.

Team chess

From 1980 to 1994 he represented Greece at eight Chess Olympiads .
These were the 1980 Olympics in Valletta , 1982 in Lucerne , 1984 in Thessaloniki , 1986 in Dubai , 1988 in Thessaloniki , 1990 in Novi Sad , 1992 in Manila and 1994 in Moscow .

He played at the European Team Championships in Haifa in 1989 and in Debrecen in 1992 , where he scored a gold medal on the second board.

Club chess

Spyridon Skembris and Jörg Weidemann at the Baden 4-Team Cup 2014

In the 2014/15 season he played in the Oberliga Baden for SK Freiburg-Zähringen 1887 on the first board. In the Swiss Bundesliga he had been registered for SC Lyss-Seeland since the 2014/15 season . He also plays team fights in France and Greece.

In the 2017/18 season he is active as a player-coach for both the Grunbach chess club and the SK Freiburg-Zähringen.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 95.
  2. ↑ Spyridon Skembris at Chess Olympiads on OlimpBase (English)
  3. ↑ The 10th European Team Championship in Debrecen 1992 on OlimpBase (English)
  4. ↑ DWZ file card Skembris on the German Chess Federation

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personal data
SURNAME Skembris, Spyridon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek chess grandmaster
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Corfu