Leonidas Liaskos

Leonidas is a former semi-professional chess player and ‘FIDE Instructor’ level coach from Greece. In 2018, he played chess in Wales, UK where he won the West Wales Chess League Championship with the ‘White Knights’ team and the Welsh Chess Premier League Championship with the ‘The Vale’ team. Besides chess, he has a bachelor’s and master’s in chemical engineering and currently he is a post-graduate student in business management in the University of Warwick in UK. You can contact him on his LinkedIn page.

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7 reasons you should hire a chess player

7/10/2019 – ...well actually 7+1 — just in case seven reasons isn't enough...LEONIDAS LIASKOS was looking for a job and found his chess skills could be an asset. Coming across a 2018 article recommending human resources managers take a close look at competitive swimmers, he got inspired to write his own version for chess players. | Photos: Micael Sáez, Unsplash.com

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