Ioannis K. Papadopoulos (born 1988) 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 ...

player holding the title of Grandmaster. In the year, 2007, the untitled Papadopoulos won the Greek Chess Championship in Igoumenitsa with 7.5/9.0, a full two points ahead of the runner up. He played for Greece's top board at the

2008 Chess Olympiad The 38th Chess Olympiad (german: Die 38. Schacholympiade), organized by FIDE and comprising an open and a women's tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place from 12 to 25 November 2008 in Dresden, ...

. Presently, he is playing for Greek chess club Keraunos Oraiokastrou. Additionally, he played on the first board for them in six out of seven games of the 2012 Alpha Ethniki Qualifying Group, scoring four wins and two draws. Following his team's qualification to the 2012 Alpha Ethiniki Championship (they achieved 1st place in the 2012 Alpha Ethniki Qualifying Group), he once again played in the first board for them at the 2012 Alpha Ethniki Championship, scoring 2.5/7 points with a Rating Performance of 2411, as Keraunos Oraiokastrou achieved a 5th-place finish in 32 teams, being seeded 8th before the tournament began.

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* Greek chess players Chess grandmasters Living people 1988 births 21st-century Greek people {{greece-chess-bio-stub