Stelios Halkias
Number of games in database: 368
Years covered: 1992 to 2009
Current FIDE rating: 2570
Highest rating achieved in database: 2589
Overall record: +134 -77 =149 (57.9%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      8 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  King's Indian (26)      E92 E94 E91 E90 E70  Queen's Pawn Game (18)      A45 A41 A40 A46 D04  Slav (18)      D17 D15 D11 D13 D14  Queen's Indian (16)      E12 E15 E13 E16  Queen's Gambit Declined (15)      D30 D31 D37 D38  Orthodox Defense (14)      D52 D60 D55 D58 D50	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (67)      B33 B30 B22 B40 B45  Tarrasch Defense (26)      D34 D32  Ruy Lopez (12)      C78 C72 C61 C69 C77  Queen's Gambit Declined (11)      D38 D37 D31 D39 D30  Queen's Pawn Game (10)      D02 A45 A40 D05 A46  French Defense (10)      C07 C18 C02 C17 C19

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

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page 1 of 15; games 1-25 of 368  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. E Grivas vs S Halkias   1-0 28 1998 48th Greek Championships D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 7. Sadvakasov vs S Halkias   1-0 37 1998 Wch U20 A16 English 8. I Nikolaidis vs S Halkias   ½-½ 9 1998 48th Greek Championships A04 Reti Opening 9. S Halkias vs T Gelashvili   0-1 25 1998 GRE-chT E12 Queen's Indian 10. S Halkias vs I Papaioannou   ½-½ 5 1998 48th Greek Championships C48 Four Knights 11. Zhong Zhang vs S Halkias   1-0 24 1998 World Junior Championships B40 Sicilian 12. M Kobalia vs S Halkias   ½-½ 15 1998 World Junior Championships D32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 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. R Felgaer vs S Halkias   ½-½ 35 2000 World Junior B33 Sicilian 17. T Petrik vs S Halkias   ½-½ 62 2000 World Junior B47 Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation 18. S Halkias vs Emms ½-½ 17 2000 34th Olympiad A61 Benoni 19. S Halkias vs Z Hagarova   1-0 30 2000 KB Czech Open A45 Queen's Pawn Game 20. S Halkias vs H Banikas   ½-½ 7 2000 Greek Chess Championship A04 Reti Opening 21. S Kozhuharov vs S Halkias   1-0 37 2000 World Junior B32 Sicilian 22. Skembris vs S Halkias   ½-½ 12 2000 Greek Chess Championship C03 French, Tarrasch 23. S Halkias vs Pribyl 1-0 25 2000 KB Czech Open A45 Queen's Pawn Game 24. S Halkias vs M Ginzburg   1-0 26 2000 World Junior D30 Queen's Gambit Declined 25. V Malakhov vs S Halkias   ½-½ 45 2000 Wch U20 D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch  page 1 of 15; games 1-25 of 368

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.

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