Stelios Halkias
Number of games in database: 552
Years covered: 1992 to 2013
Last FIDE rating: 2549
Highest rating achieved in database: 2602
Overall record: +198 -97 =224 (59.7%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      33 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  King's Indian (35)      E92 E94 E91 E90 E62  Slav (31)      D17 D11 D15 D13 D12  Queen's Pawn Game (25)      A46 A41 A45 A40 D04  Queen's Gambit Declined (24)      D30 D38 D37 D31 D39  Queen's Indian (19)      E12 E15 E14 E13 E16  Orthodox Defense (19)      D52 D58 D63 D60 D55	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (83)      B33 B30 B22 B40 B45  Tarrasch Defense (28)      D34 D32  Queen's Gambit Declined (22)      D38 D31 D37 D30 D39  Queen's Pawn Game (20)      D02 A46 E10 E00 A40  Ruy Lopez (20)      C78 C72 C68 C77 C61  English (14)      A13 A10 A16 A14

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   S Halkias vs Pribyl, 2000 1-0
   Hug vs S Halkias, 2005 0-1
   S Halkias vs S Kristjansson, 2004 1-0
   S Halkias vs S Williams, 2011 1/2-1/2

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   X Anibal Open (2003)
   EU-ch 4th (2003)
   5th Individual European Chess Championship (2004)
   Amsterdam Chess Tournament (2006)
   European Individual Championships (2007)
   European Individual Championships (2010)
   Gibraltar (2010)
   Reykjavik Open (2011)
   Chess Olympiad (2012)
   Politiken Cup (2012)
   Chigorin Memorial (2012)
   Reykjavik Open (2012)

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STELIOS HALKIAS (born Apr-11-1980) Greece [what is this?] Steliois Halkias was the Greek Under-12 and Under-16 champion. In 1992, he was the bronze medalist at the European U12 championship. In 2002, he was awarded the GM title. His result in the European Individual Championships (2010) enabled him to qualify for the World Cup (2011). There he faced Russian super-GM Alexander Morozevich in the first round, holding him to two drawn games in the classical game mini-match, but succumbed 2-0 in the 25 minute rapid game match tiebreaker. Photo: http://www.bidmonfa.com/halkias_ste...

page 1 of 23; games 1-25 of 552  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. S Halkias vs V Malakhov   0-1 40 1992 Wch U12 A61 Benoni 2. Sadvakasov vs S Halkias   1-0 38 1993 Wch U14 B23 Sicilian, Closed 3. S Halkias vs I Starostits   1-0 58 1995 EU-ch U16 D85 Grunfeld 4. S Halkias vs Tringov   1-0 30 1997 Ikaros/Thessaloniki A41 Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6) 5. T Gelashvili vs S Halkias   0-1 52 1997 Ikaros/Thessaloniki A01 Nimzovich-Larsen Attack 6. M Kobalia vs S Halkias   ½-½ 15 1998 World Junior Championships D32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 7. E Grivas vs S Halkias   1-0 28 1998 48th Greek Championships D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 8. Sadvakasov vs S Halkias   1-0 37 1998 Wch U20 A16 English 9. I Nikolaidis vs S Halkias   ½-½ 9 1998 48th Greek Championships A04 Reti Opening 10. S Halkias vs T Gelashvili   0-1 25 1998 GRE-chT E12 Queen's Indian 11. S Halkias vs I Papaioannou   ½-½ 5 1998 48th Greek Championships C48 Four Knights 12. Zhong Zhang vs S Halkias   1-0 24 1998 World Junior Championships B40 Sicilian 13. S Halkias vs Kasimdzhanov   ½-½ 24 1999 Wch U20 E92 King's Indian 14. S Halkias vs T Gelashvili   0-1 36 1999 Korinthos op 3rd D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 15. Aronian vs S Halkias   1-0 26 1999 Wch U20 D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 16. S Halkias vs S Fedorchuk   ½-½ 21 2000 World Junior E11 Bogo-Indian Defense 17. Pavasovic vs S Halkias   0-1 48 2000 Oz.com qual blitz B22 Sicilian, Alapin 18. S Halkias vs D Lima   ½-½ 32 2000 34th Olympiad A40 Queen's Pawn Game 19. T M Haub vs S Halkias   ½-½ 92 2000 KB Czech Open A08 King's Indian Attack 20. K Pappas vs S Halkias   0-1 60 2000 Greek Chess Championship B22 Sicilian, Alapin 21. T Gelashvili vs S Halkias 1-0 70 2000 Yerevan zt 1.5 A45 Queen's Pawn Game 22. S Halkias vs M Mahjoob   1-0 35 2000 World Junior A80 Dutch 23. A Butnorius vs S Halkias   ½-½ 34 2000 34th Olympiad A04 Reti Opening 24. S Halkias vs I Aftsoglou   ½-½ 30 2000 Greek Chess Championship A46 Queen's Pawn Game 25. L Espig vs S Halkias   ½-½ 74 2000 KB Czech Open D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch  page 1 of 23; games 1-25 of 552

Nov-29-04    mahmoudkubba: Who is the player?? any informationabout him before I use the Google analysis method please?? waw I am the first to Kibitz here! Nov-29-04    tomh72000: Well, the name is very Greek, but other than that I know nothing. Dec-16-04    Honza Cervenka: Stelios Halkias is an young GM from Greece. I have seen him few years ago in Pardubice where he played in KB Open tournament. See http://www.chesslive.de/scripts/ser... Aug-31-05    halcyonteam: I like his style, his early kingside demolish. He always storm with a horde of powerful pawns. Mar-04-06    BIDMONFA: Stelios Halkias HALKIAS, Stelios http://www.bidmonfa.com/halkias_ste... _ Apr-21-06    PhilFeeley: White binds black up pretty good with 16. Ncd6 and attacks relentlessly, but black manages to escape in the end: [Event "Kavala International Tournament 2005"] [Site "Kavala"] [Date "2005.??.??"] [Round "1"] [White "Kourousis E"] [Black "Halkias S"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "E16"] [WhiteElo "1948"] [BlackElo "2548"] [PlyCount "76"] [EventDate "2005.??.??"] 1. d4 e6 2. c4 b6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. g3 Bb7 5. Bg2 Bb4+ 6. Bd2 Be7 7. Nc3 c6 8. O-O d5 9. Bf4 O-O 10. Re1 Nbd7 11. Ne5 Rc8 12. e4 dxc4 13. Nxc4 Re8 14. e5 Nd5 15. Ne4 Rb8 16. Ncd6 Rf8 17. Rc1 Ba8 18. Bh3 Bxd6 19. Nxd6 c5 20. Nxf7 Nxf4 21. gxf4 Kxf7 22. Qh5+ Kg8 23. Bxe6+ Kh8 24. Qh3 Rb7 25. Bf5 g6 26. Be4 Rxf4 27. Qg3 Rxe4 28. Rxe4 Nf8 29. e6 Re7 30. Qe5+ Kg8 31. Rf4 Rxe6 32. Rxf8+ Kxf8 33. Qh8+ Ke7 34. Qg7+ Ke8 35. Qg8+ Kd7 36. Qxh7+ Kc8 37. Qh6 Qd5 38. Qf8+ Kb7 0-1 Jul-22-06    niemzo: Just won L'Ami in the Amsterdam tournament and should be tied for first with one round to go.Great result for him so far. Dec-01-06    niemzo: A great win for him in the German international open in Bavaria. Apr-11-10    wordfunph: i like his first name Stelios.. happy 30th birthday GM Stelios! Jul-06-11    engineerX: In this interview ( http://www.chessvibes.com/developin... ) he is asked which is the best game he has played. And he answers that he has played a very nice positional queen sacrifice [Event "Wch U20"] [Date "1998.11.19"] [White "Halkias, Stelios"] [Black "Ippolito, Dean"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2435"] [BlackElo "2430"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Qc2 Bd6 7. Bd3 O-O 8. O-O e5 9. cxd5 cxd5 10. e4 exd4 11. Nxd5 Nxd5 12. exd5 h6 13. Nxd4 Qh4 14. Nf3 Qh5 15. Bh7+ Kh8 16. Qf5 g5 17. Re1 Kg7 18. Bd2 Ne5 19. Nxe5 Bxf5 20. Bxf5 Bxe5 21. Rxe5 Rfe8 22. Rxe8 Rxe8 23. g4 Qh3 24. Bc3+ f6 25. d6 Qf3 26. d7 Re2 27. Bxf6+ Kf7 28. Rf1 Re4 29. Bxe4 Qxg4+ 30. Bg2 Qxd7 31. Bc3 h5 32. f4 g4 33. Be4 h4 34. Kg2 Qe6 35. Re1 Qxa2 36. f5 b5 37. Rd1 Qa4 38. Rd4 h3+ 39. Kf2 Qa1 40. f6 g3+ 41. hxg3 h2 42. Rd7+ Kf8 43. Bb4+ Ke8 44. Bc6 h1=N+ 45. Kg2 1-0 But this game is not in chessgames.com's database

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