Dimitrios Mastrovasilis ( gr, Δημήτριος Μαστροβασίλης; born 12 June 1983) is a Greek

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Chess Championship in

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

and the

FIDE World Cup The FIDE World Cup refers to three different events over the years. Since 2000, it has been a major chess event organized by FIDE, the International Chess Federation. Since 2005, it has been a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament, formi ...

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Career

Mastrovasilis took the silver medal in the under 18 division at the European Youth Chess Championships of 2000. In 2003 Mastrovasilis won the 1st Mediterranean Junior Championship in Ajelat, Libya. The following year he tied for 1st–2nd with

Kiril Georgiev Kiril Dimitrov Georgiev ( bg, Кирил Димитров Георгиев; born 28 November 1965 in Petrich) is a Bulgarian and Macedonian chess grandmaster, and seven-time Bulgarian Chess Champion. Chess career Georgiev first caught the ...

Topola Topola ( sr-cyrl, Топола, ) is a town and municipality located in the Šumadija District of central Serbia. It was the place where Karađorđe, a Serbian revolutionary, was chosen as the leader of the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottom ...

. In 2007 he tied for 2nd–7th with

Vadim Malakhatko Vadim Malakhatko ( uk, Вадим Малахатько; 22 March 1977 – 5 June 2023) was a Ukrainian (until 2007) and Belgian (from 2007) chess International Grandmaster, grandmaster. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team at ...

Mircea Pârligras Mircea-Emilian Pârligras (born 28 December 1980) is a Romanian chess grandmaster and a two-time Romanian Chess Champion. As of November 2011, his FIDE rating is 2650, making him the 103rd player in the world. In 2007 he tied for 2nd–7th wi ...

Hristos Banikas Hristodoulos Banikas ( gr, Χριστόδουλος Μπανίκας; born 20 May 1978) is a Greek chess grandmaster from Salonica. Chess career Banikas won the 1990 Greek U-12 championship, the 1993 Greek U-16 championship, and the 1996 Gree ...

and

Dmitry Svetushkin Dmitry Svetushkin (; ro, Dumitru Svetuşchin; 25 July 1980 – 4 September 2020) was a Moldovan chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster by FIDE in 2002; Svetushkin played for the Moldovan national team in the Ches ...

in the

Acropolis International Chess Tournament The Acropolis International was a chess tournament held in Athens. The longest running international chess tournament in Greece, the first event, an international invitation tournament was won by Luděk Pachman in 1968. The next event was not held ...

. In 2012 he won the Artemis Cup in

Leros Leros ( el, Λέρος) is a Greek island and municipality in the Dodecanese in the southern Aegean Sea. It lies (171 nautical miles) from Athens's port of Piraeus, from which it can be reached by an 9-hour ferry ride or by a 45-minute flight fr ...

. In team events, Mastrovasilis represented Greece in the Chess Olympiad, the

World Team Chess Championship The World Team Chess Championship is an international team chess event, eligible for the participation of 10 countries whose chess federations dominate their continent. It is played every two years. In chess, this tournament and the Chess Olympiads ...

and the

European Team Chess Championship The European Team Championship (often abbreviated in texts and games databases as ''ETC'') is an international team chess event, eligible for the participation of European nations whose chess federations are located in zones 1.1 to 1.9. This more ...

. In 2016, he was part of team Europe, which defeated team Poland in the 8th Lublin Union Memorial.

Personal life

His brother is chess grandmaster

Athanasios Mastrovasilis Athanasios ( el, Αθανάσιος), also transliterated as Athnasious, Athanase or Atanacio, is a Greek male name which means "immortal". In modern Greek everyday use, it is commonly shortened to Thanasis (Θανάσης), Thanos (Θάνος), ...

. He is married to Polish Woman Grandmaster

Jolanta Zawadzka Jolanta Zawadzka (born 8 February 1987) is a Polish chess player with the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). In 2004, she won the World Youth Chess Championship for girls U18. She won the women's Polish Chess Championship in 2006, 2011, 2015 and ...

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Dimitrios Mastrovasilis
chess games at 365Chess.com * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mastrovasilis, Dimitrios 1983 births Living people Chess grandmasters Greek chess players Chess Olympiad competitors Place of birth missing (living people) Sportspeople from Thessaloniki 21st-century Greek people