Ioannis Nikolaidis (born 4 January 1971) 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 (1995). He won the Greek Chess Championship in 1995. and came third in the Balkan Individual Chess Championship of 2002 in

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. Nikolaidis played for

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in the

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s of 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006. Two times he played in chess balkaniads: 1993 and 1994. Other results include: 7th–11th with

Zurab Sturua Zurab Sturua (born 8 June 1959) is a Georgian chess player, who was awarded the title of grandmaster by FIDE in 1991. He won the Georgian Chess Championship in 1975, 1977, 1981, 1984 and 1985 and played for Georgia in the Chess Olympiads of 1992 ...

Giorgi Bagaturov Giorgi Bagaturov (born November 28, 1964) is a Georgian-Armenian chess grandmaster. He is a three-time Georgian Chess Champion and won the World Senior Championship's over-50 section in 2016. Chess career In 1997, Bagaturov tied for first thro ...

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and

Ashot Nadanian Ashot Nadanian (sometimes transliterated as Nadanyan; hy, Աշոտ Նադանյան; born 19 September 1972) is an Armenian chess International Master (1997), chess theoretician and chess coach. His highest achievements have been in openin ...

in the Zonal tournament in Panormo,

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1998, which was the qualifying tournament for the

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; third in the

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open 2000; first in the 16th international tournament in

Nikea Nicaea, also known as Nicea or Nikaia (; ; grc-gre, Νίκαια, ) was an ancient Greek city in Bithynia, where located in northwestern Anatolia and is primarily known as the site of the First and Second Councils of Nicaea (the first and se ...

2008. In 2005, he tied for second–third places with

Maxim Turov Maxim Turov (; born 7 December 1979) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1999. Turov participated in the 1st Children's Chess Olympiad, held in Linares in 1993, as part of Russia "A" team, which won the ...

in the

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Chess Festival. In the May 2010

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list, he has an

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of 2490.

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* Chess Grandmasters Living people Greek chess players Chess Olympiad competitors 1971 births 20th-century Greek people 21st-century Greek people {{Greece-chess-bio-stub