Stelios Halkias

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GM Stelios Halkias.jpg
Stelios Halkias, 2010
Association GreeceGreece Greece
Born April 11, 1980
Thessaloniki
title International Master (1998)
Grand Master (2002)
Current  Elo rating 2563 (September 2020)
Best Elo rating 2602 (May 2011)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Stelios Halkias ( Greek Στέλιος Χαλκιάς , born April 11, 1980 in Thessaloniki ) is a Greek chess player .

He played for Greece at nine Chess Olympiads : 2000 to 2016 . He also took part in eight European team championships (2001 to 2013 and 2017) and in the team world championship (2010).

At the 2011 Chess World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk , he failed in the first round to Alexander Morozevich . In 2015, Halkias won the Grand Masters tournament on Lev Gutman's 70th birthday. In the same year he won the Bad Wörishofen chess festival .

In Germany he played for the Sportfreunde Katernberg ( 2007/08 to 2009/10 ).

In 1998 he was awarded the title of International Master (IM). The title of Grand Master (GM) was awarded to him in 2002.

Elo development

Web links

Commons : Stelios Halkias  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. Numbers according to FIDE Elo lists. Data sources: fide.com (period since 2001), olimpbase.org (period 1971 to 2001)