Vasilios Kotronias

Vasilios Kotronias (Greek Βασίλειος Κοτρωνιάς, born August 25, 1964 in Athens ) is a Greek chess player.

The title of International Master, he received in 1986, he has since 1990 grandmasters. A native of Athens Vasilios Kotronias played between 1998 and 2004 for Cyprus, but then returned to the Greek Chess Federation. His Elo rating is 2591 (as of November 2010), that he is behind Ioannis Papaioannou on the second place of the Greek Elo ranking, which he had led for a long time. He had his highest ever Elo rating of 2628 in January 2008.

Nine times he could win the Greek Individual Championship ( 1986 to 1988, 1990 to 1992, 1994, 2006 and 2010). Chess tournaments he won, among others, in 1988 in Athens ( Acropolis tournament ), 1992 in Wijk aan Zee ( category 10), in Komotini and Corfu, 1993, 1994 and 1995 in Gausdal, 1996 in Rishon LeZion, 2001, Glyfada, 2003 1993 Gibraltar (together with Nigel Short ) and Athens, 2004 Hastings (together with Jonathan Rowson ), 2005 and again in 2007 in Kalamaria.

He participated in 13 Chess Olympiads ( 1984-1996, 2000-2008 and 2012 ), of which eight times on top board with a total score of 94 points from 154 games ( 63, = 62, -29 ). At the Chess Olympiad 2008 he received an individual bronze medal for his score of 8.5 out of 11 on the second board. At the Chess Olympiad 2010, he accompanied the Greek national team not as a player, but as a captain. In eight appearances at European Team Championships from 1989 to 2013, of which the first seven on board one, he reached a total score of 37 out of 65 ( 23, = 28, -14 ). He pointed each time to a positive balance and received in 2001 in León an individual silver medal for his score of 5.5 out of 8 in 2013 in Warsaw and a gold medal for his score of 5 out of 7 on the reserve board.

Club chess he plays in Greece ( Kavala ), France ( La Tour Sarrazine - Antibes ), Italy, Romania, Serbia, Sweden (from 2006/ 07 to 2008/09 season for Skara SS, from the 2009/10 season for the team Viking from Sollentuna ), Czech Republic ( for Slavoj Ostrava- Poruba ) and Hungary (for the Aquaprofit Nagykanizsai Tungsram Sakk club ). With Aquaprofit he won the Hungarian, with the Team Viking in the seasons 2009/10 and 2011/ 12, the Swedish team championship in the seasons 2006/ 07 and 2008/ 09. In the German Chess Bundesliga he played in the 1996/97 season for PSV Duisburg and 2007/ 08 for the SG Trier.

Publications

• Beating the Caro-Kann. Batsford, London 1984, ISBN 0-7134-7415-7.
• Beating the Flank Openings. Batsford, London 1996, ISBN 0-7134-7781-4.
• Beating the Petroff. Batsford, London 2004, ISBN 0-7134-8919-7. ( together with Andreas Tzermiadianos )
• The Grandmaster Battle Manual. Quality Chess, Glasgow 2011, ISBN 978-1-906552-52-7.
• Kotronias on the King 's Indian. Volume 1: Fianchetto system. Quality Chess, Glasgow, 2013, ISBN 978-1-906552-50-3.
• Carlsen 's Assault on the Throne. Quality Chess, Glasgow, 2013, ISBN 978-1-906552-22-0. (together with Sotiris Logothetis)