Maria Kouvatsou

Maria Kouvatsou (Greek Μαρία Κουβάτσου, born November 2, 1979 in Athens ) is a Greek chess player.

When she was five years old, her parents moved to Chania, Crete. Since it can play chess, she is a member of the AO Kydon Chania ( Kydon Sports Club ), for which she also at the United European Team Championships men in 2001 and women in 2003, both on Crete, played and with whom she was 2002 Greek team champion.

Achievements

In 1991 she got the Greek Championship in her age group a bronze medal. She was Greek U20 champion in 1999. In the same year in September it was in Yerevan, Armenia U20 World Chess Champion and is thereby the only Greek who could win a world chess championship. In this tournament, it was from the beginning in the lead, though lost their last two games, but had until then been played so much advantage that they could win the final tiebreaker. Second was the Czech Jana Jacková before the Romanian Szidónia Vajda.

In 2000 Kouvatsou Greek mistress. In April 2001, she reached in an exhibition match against Anatoly Karpov in Rethymno, Crete 1-1. The first game against him, they even won. In the same year at the FIDE World Chess Championship for women in Moscow ( when they could participate through a granted by the FIDE President Ilyumzhinov bye ) they separated already in the first round against the seeded 12 Nataša Bojković.

She likes to play in the Sicilian Alapin variant.

Your Elo rating is 2157 (as of September 2009), so it is in ninth place of the Greek Elo ranking of women. Your best Elo rating was 2235 in July 2003. Kouvatsou Mary 's since 2000, Grand Master of the women.

She studied dentistry in Athens.