Vasilios Kotronias is a Greek

Greece

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 chess

Chess

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 grandmaster

International Grandmaster

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 and chess author.

Kotronias was awarded the titles of International Master in 1986 and Grandmaster in 1990. He is nine-time Greek Champion

Greek Chess Championship

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Between 1998 and 2004, he represented Cyprus, but has since switched Federations to become a Greek national player once again.

International tournament record

• 1st 1988 Athens (Acropolis International
  Acropolis International chess tournament
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• 1st 1993 Komotini
• 1st 1993 Corfu
• 1st 1994 Gausdal
• 1st 1995 Greek Championship
  Greek Chess Championship
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• 1st 1995 Gausdal
• 1st 1996 Rishon le Zion
• 1st 1998 Panormo

Team events

In team chess, he has participated in many Chess Olympiad

Chess Olympiad

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s since 1984, including eight on top board, with a healthy overall plus score of +55, = 55, -27. In seven appearances at the European Team Championship

European Team Championship

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s, all played at board one, he made a score of +19, = 26, -13. At León

León, Spain

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, in 2001, he earned an individual silver medal for his score of 5½/8.

Notable games

• Peter Heine Nielsen vs Vasilios Kotronias, Hastings 2004, King's Indian Defense: Orthodox Variation, Classical System Neo-Classical Line (E98), 0-1
• Vasilios Kotronias vs Nikolaos Skalkotas, 34th Greek Teams Championship 2005, Spanish Game: Closed Variations, Chigorin Defense (C99), 1-0
• Thomas E Rendle vs Vasilios Kotronias, Gibraltar Masters 2005, Bird Opening: From Gambit, Lasker Variation (A02), 0-1

Publications

• (With Andreas Tzermiadianos) Beating the Petroff, Sterling Pub Co Inc, 2005.
• Beating the Flank Openings, Batsford Chess Library, 1998.
• Beating the Caro-Kann, Batsford Chess Library, 1994.

External links

• Rating data