Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis

{{short description|Greek chess grandmaster (born 1998)}}

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| name = Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis

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| country = Greece

| birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|7 June 1998}}

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| title = Grandmaster (2023)

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| peakrating = 2580 (January 2025)

| FideID = 4221990

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Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis (born 7 June 1998) is a Greek chess grandmaster. He is ranked 13th best player in Greece{{Cite web |url=https://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=4221990 |title=Kourkoulos-Arditis, Stamatis FIDE Chess Profile - Players Arbiters Trainers |website=ratings.fide.com |access-date=2020-04-08}} and his highest rating was 2553 (in April 2023).{{Cite web |url=https://chess-db.com/public/pinfo.jsp?id=4221990 |title=Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis chess games and profile |website=Chess-DB.com |access-date=2020-04-08 }}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

He won the 2019 Greek Championship.{{Cite web |url=https://www.chessbomb.com/arena/2019-greek-championship |title=Greek Championship 2019 |website=ChessBomb.com |access-date=2020-04-08 |quote=Kourkoulos-Arditis, Stamatis}}

In 2020, he won the 13th Paleochora Open with a score of 7.5/9{{Cite web |url=https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic1342.html#9 |title=The Week in Chess 1342: 13th Paleochora Open 2020 |website=TheWeekInChess.com |access-date=2020-08-09 |quote=Kourkoulos-Arditis, Stamatis}}

He beat GM Maxime Lagarde in round 9 of the European Championship, achieving the final score of 6/11.{{Cite web |url=https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/european-championship-2019/9/1/83 |title=Kourkoulos-Arditis, Stamatis vs. Lagarde, Maxime | European Championship 2019 |website=Chess24.com |access-date=2020-04-08}}

Kourkoulos-Arditis became a FIDE Master in 2014, an International Master (IM) in 2018, and a grandmaster (GM) in 2023.