The Most Famous
CHESS PLAYERS from Greece
This page contains a list of the greatest Greek Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 461 Chess Players, 1 of which were born in Greece. This makes Greece the birth place of the 58th most number of Chess Players behind Türkiye, and Qatar.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Greek Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Greek Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Vasilios Kotronias (b. 1964)
With an HPI of 41.73, Vasilios Kotronias is the most famous Greek Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Vasilios Kotronias (Greek: Βασίλειος Κοτρωνιάς; first name sometimes spelled Vassilios; born 25 August 1964) is a Greek chess player and writer. He is a ten-time Greek champion (1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 2006, 2010, 2014). Kotronias was awarded the titles of International Master in 1986 and Grandmaster in 1990 by FIDE. He was the first Greek chess player to become a Grandmaster. Between 1998 and 2004, he represented Cyprus, but has since switched federations to become a Greek national player once again.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Greek chess players born between 1964 and 1964. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Greek chess players include Vasilios Kotronias. As of April 2024, 1 new Greek chess players have been added to Pantheon including Vasilios Kotronias.
