Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras received three times World Youth Champion Stavroula Tsolakidou and congratulated her on the third world title, which she won at the recently concluded FIDE World Youth Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. Georgios Makropoulos, FIDE Deputy President and President of the Greek Chess Federation, Vassileos Theodoridis, Vice-President of the Greek CF and Stavros Kontonis, Deputy Minister of Sports also attended the meeting.

“Stavroula Tsolakidou is an important example of confidence for the country’s future” said the Greek Prime Minister. He added that he is regularly playing chess with his 6-years old son.

Stavroula Tsolakidou also visited the President of the Greek Republic Prokopios Pavlopoulos.

Stavroula Tsolakidou (born March 24, 2000) is a Greek chess player, three times World Youth Champion (among girls under 14 in 2013, under 16 in 2015 and under 18 in 2016). She has also won other medals in World and European Youth events (2nd among Girls under 14 in 2014 in both the World and European Youth, 3rd in European Youth Girls under 16 in 2016, gold individual medal in the 2014 World Youth Olympiad). FIDE awarded her the Women’s Grandmaster title in early 2016, and she is currently ranked 14th among Girls. Stavroula became the 8th chess player in the history of chess who won three different categories in the World Youth Championships, since 1981 when they started being held in their current format. She is still only 16 years old, but decided to take part in the under-18 section of the World Youth Championships (Khanty-Mansiysk, September 2016), where she became the World Youth Champion for the third time.

Interview with three times World Youth Champion Stavroula Tsolakidou