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Efstratios Grivas
E Grivas 
 

Number of games in database: 1,383
Years covered: 1979 to 2024
Last FIDE rating: 2337 (2296 rapid, 2296 blitz)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2528
Overall record: +553 -258 =545 (60.9%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 27 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 King's Indian (99) 
    E90 E71 E75 E92 E97
 Queen's Pawn Game (84) 
    A46 A41 E10 A40 A50
 Queen's Indian (57) 
    E15 E16 E19 E14 E17
 Grunfeld (42) 
    D91 D94 D79 D85 D90
 English (42) 
    A15 A13 A10 A11 A16
 Modern Benoni (37) 
    A57 A71 A56 A58 A70
With the Black pieces:
 Sicilian (232) 
    B33 B30 B32 B22 B23
 King's Indian (183) 
    E92 E80 E62 E97 E67
 Ruy Lopez (42) 
    C80 C77 C92 C69 C82
 Queen's Pawn Game (32) 
    A45 A46 D00 A40 D01
 English (25) 
    A10 A16 A15 A13
 Ruy Lopez, Open (24) 
    C80 C82 C83 C81
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   E Grivas vs A Braun, 2008 1-0
   V Kovacevic vs E Grivas, 1989 1/2-1/2
   E Grivas vs T Gelashvili, 1998 1/2-1/2
   E Grivas vs P Short, 1986 1-0
   D Solak vs E Grivas, 2006 1/2-1/2
   E Grivas vs Smirin, 1992 1/2-1/2

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   World Junior Championship (1985)
   Budapest FS10 GM (1993)
   EUR-chT (Open) 9th (1989)
   Bela Crkva Open (1987)
   Elista Olympiad (1998)
   Corus Group C (2008)
   Cannes Open (1995)
   European Junior Championship 1985/86 (1985)
   Cappelle Open (1995)
   Panormo Zonal (1998)
   World Junior Championship (1983)
   Yerevan Olympiad (1996)
   Dubai Olympiad (1986)
   Novi Sad Olympiad (1990)
   Dortmund Open-A (1992)

RECENT GAMES:
   🏆 Dubai Open-A
   E Grivas vs M Ezat (Jun-01-24) 0-1
   G Mammadova vs E Grivas (May-31-24) 1/2-1/2
   E Grivas vs E Hossain (May-30-24) 1/2-1/2
   R D Liyanage vs E Grivas (May-29-24) 1-0
   E Grivas vs V S Rathanvel (May-28-24) 0-1

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EFSTRATIOS GRIVAS
(born Mar-30-1966, 59 years old) Greece

[what is this?]
Efstratios Grivas was born in Egio, Greece. He was awarded the FM title in 1983, the IM title in 1984 and the GM title in 1993. Then he moved on to becoming an International Arbiter in 1998, International Organizer also in 1998 and a FIDE Senior Trainer (2005), quitting OTB play in 2009. Grivas was Greek champion in 1983 and 1996.

Wikipedia article: Efstratios Grivas


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 page 1 of 56; games 1-25 of 1,383  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. M Gantsidis vs E Grivas  ½-½591979Kallithea Inaugural-chC50 Giuoco Piano
2. A Zafiriadis vs E Grivas  0-1391979Kallithea Inaugural-chC45 Scotch Game
3. A Karagiannis vs E Grivas  1-0401979Kallithea Inaugural-chC03 French, Tarrasch
4. E Kehagias vs E Grivas  1-0461979Kallithea Inaugural-chD00 Queen's Pawn Game
5. G Abakoumkin vs E Grivas  1-0541979Kallithea-ch U18C21 Center Game
6. A Karaplis vs E Grivas  1-0311979Kallithea Inaugural-chC02 French, Advance
7. E Grivas vs A Soilemezis  0-1291979Kallithea-ch U18C57 Two Knights
8. E Grivas vs K Karaplis  ½-½151979Kallithea Inaugural-chD20 Queen's Gambit Accepted
9. E Grivas vs A Zouridis  1-0271979Kallithea Inaugural-chA41 Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6)
10. E Grivas vs A Karagiannis  0-1121979Kallithea-ch U18C22 Center Game
11. E Grivas vs P Kanelatos  1-0651979Kallithea Inaugural-chD06 Queen's Gambit Declined
12. E Grivas vs F Valatsoukis  0-1651979Kallithea Inaugural-chC00 French Defense
13. E Grivas vs P Csesmetzis  0-1201979Kallithea-ch U18C47 Four Knights
14. T Skopelitis vs E Grivas  0-1611979Kallithea Inaugural-chA22 English
15. K Halkiopoulos vs E Grivas  1-0221979Kallithea-ch U18C53 Giuoco Piano
16. E Grivas vs A Tagmatarhis  1-0201979Kallithea Inaugural-chC66 Ruy Lopez
17. E Grivas vs A Zouridis  0-1281979Kallithea-ch U18B22 Sicilian, Alapin
18. E Grivas vs I Giannakopoulos  1-0391979Kallithea Inaugural-chB20 Sicilian
19. E Grivas vs E Minev  ½-½151979Kallithea Inaugural-chA00 Uncommon Opening
20. A Tagmatarhis vs E Grivas  1-0221979Kallithea-ch U18C48 Four Knights
21. F Valatsoukis vs E Grivas  1-0431979Kallithea-ch U18C20 King's Pawn Game
22. T Mihalopoulos vs E Grivas  ½-½421979Kallithea Inaugural-chB23 Sicilian, Closed
23. E Grivas vs K Daglas  0-1251979Kallithea-ch U18E00 Queen's Pawn Game
24. F Koerant vs E Grivas  1-0281979Kallithea-ch U18C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense
25. E Grivas vs D Abakoumkin  0-1471979Kallithea-ch U18C00 French Defense
 page 1 of 56; games 1-25 of 1,383  PGN Download
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Kibitzer's Corner
Feb-28-07  vonKrolock: Mr. <Grivas>, please have a look in my post from today 28-ii-07 here Teichmann vs Allies, 1902
Sep-20-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  GrahamClayton: Grivas is the full-time trainer for the Turkish national team.

Source: Yochanan Afek "Corus 2008: The Youngest Ever Winner!", "CHESS", April 2008

Jun-21-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  Benzol: Has anyone read his book "The Complete Guide To The Grivas Sicilian"? I'd never heard of it before today. What do the moves/lines consist of?
Jun-21-09  myschkin: . . .

Review (+ Sample (pdf))

http://www.chessville.com/reviews/A...

http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hanse...

Jun-21-09  myschkin: . . .

Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efstra...

Homepage: http://www.chess.gr/portraits/grivas/

Jun-21-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  Benzol: <myschkin> Many thanks.

:)

Aug-12-09  thegoldenband: GM Grivas did a wonderful job on a very hard task: annotating the last game of his colleague and friend, Nikos Karapanos, who died at the board on August 10th. The game and annotations can be found here:

http://tournaments.chessdom.com/acr...

Mar-30-10  wordfunph: i almost named my son Efstratios...but finally settled for Hristos Hugo. My wife objected coz it's lengthy.

Trivia on GM Grivas: 1982 World Junior Championship in Copenhagen: In the first round, Joel Benjamin played a player from Greece which he was not familiar. His opponent handled the Bayonet King's Indian a bit strangely for black and Benjamin lost. They sat down for the post-mortem and his opponent exclaimed "I am an expert in the King's Indian." That player, Efstratios Grivas, went on to become a respectable grandmaster.

happy birthday Efstratios!

Feb-20-11  wordfunph: "My name, Efstratios, is an ancient Greek name and in ancient Greece it was used as a title, meaning 'the leader of a strong/good army'."

- GM Eftratios Grivas (in his book A Complete Guide to the Grivas Sicilian)

Dec-02-11
Premium Chessgames Member
  Benzol: The Star Wars fans have missed an opportunity with this man.

Grievous bodily harm as a pun also suggests itself.

Mar-30-12  wordfunph: "The chess player of 2009 has encountered more types of positions than the chess player of 1975 and knows the proper ways to deal with these positions. Therefore, a chess player today has a great advantage over a chess player of 35 years ago."

- GM Eftratios Grivas

happy birthday, Efstratios!

Mar-30-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  Penguincw: Happy Birthday!
Aug-26-12  Calli: A copy cat http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lubom...
Aug-26-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <Calli> As well as being rather too obvious-someone with greater knowledge of English grammar would have eliminated at least one error which was simply plagiarised.
Nov-20-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  Domdaniel: The Grivas Sicilian: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Qb6...

Though sometimes played in the 19th century, this line was not really developed until Grivas took it up. His earliest game in the CG database is a draw with Nunn, I think.

Nov-20-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  Domdaniel: Curiously, Nunn vs E Grivas, 1991 is the last of six games between the two.

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