Ioannis Nikolaidis Explained

Ioannis Nikolaidis
Birthname:	Ιωάννης Νικολαΐδης
Country:	Greece
Birth Date:	4 January 1971
Grandmaster (1995)
Peakranking:	No. 83 (July 1996)
Peakrating:	2585 (July 1996)
Fideid:	4202139

Ioannis Nikolaidis (born 4 January 1971) is a Greek chess grandmaster (1995).

He won the Greek Chess Championship in 1995.^[1] and came third in the Balkan Individual Chess Championship of 2002 in Istanbul.^[2] Nikolaidis played for Greece in the Chess Olympiads of 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006.^[3] Two times he played in chess balkaniads: 1993^[4] and 1994.^[5]

Other results include: 7th–11th with Zurab Sturua, Giorgi Bagaturov, Angelos Vouldis and Ashot Nadanian in the Zonal tournament in Panormo, Crete 1998, which was the qualifying tournament for the FIDE World Chess Championship 1999;^[6] third in the Bolzano open 2000;^[7] first in the 16th international tournament in Nikea 2008.^[8] In 2005, he tied for second–third places with Maxim Turov in the Ikaros Chess Festival.^[9]

In the May 2010 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2490.

Notes and References

1. Web site: http://www.chessfed.gr/history.htm. el:ΑΤΟΜΙΚΟ ΠΡΩΤΑΘΛΗΜΑ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ. Hellenic Chess Federation. Greek. 24 May 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100609062220/http://www.chessfed.gr/history.htm. 9 June 2010.
2. Web site: TWIC 424: 2nd Balkan Individual Chess Championship. Crowther. Mark. 2002-12-23. London Chess Center. 24 May 2010.
3. Web site: Men's Chess Olympiads: Ioannis Nikolaidis. Bartelski. Wojciech. OlimpBase. 24 May 2010. 11 August 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190811005307/http://www.olimpbase.org/players/skm60ssj.html. dead.
4. https://www.olimpbase.org/1993bm/1993gre.html 24th Chess Balkaniad (men): Ankara 1993 — Greece
5. http://www.olimpbase.org/1994bm/1994gre.html 25th Chess Balkaniad (men): Varna 1994 — Greece
6. Web site: The Week in Chess 209: Zonal 1.5 Panormo, Crete. Crowther. Mark. 1998-11-09. London Chess Center. 24 May 2010.
7. Web site: Bolzano open. Chess.gr. 24 May 2010. 14 May 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110514201958/http://www.chess.gr/tourn/2000/bolzano_open/. dead.
8. Web site: 16th Open International Chess Tournament . 2008-09-01 . Fysiolatris.net . 24 May 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100214161104/http://www.fysiolatris.net/open08/en/indexen.html . February 14, 2010 .
9. Web site: TWIC 559: Ikaros Chess Festival. Crowther. Mark. 2005-07-25. London Chess Center. 1 June 2010.