Botsari has won, or jointly won, the
Greek Women's Chess Championship eight times. She was a bronze medalist at the 1990
World Junior Chess Championship and silver medalist in 1991. She was the highest rated Greek female chess player for more than a decade. Botsari was a participant in the 1991, 1993 and 1996
World Women's Chess Championship Interzonal tournaments. She scored 9/18 in the
1990 Women's Interzonal in
Azov, 6/13 in the
1991 Women's Interzonal in
Subotica, and 7.5/13 at the
1993 Women's Interzonal in Jakarta. Botsari has represented
Greece in fifteen
Chess Olympiads from 1986 to 2014. Her best results were at the
28th Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki in 1988, where she scored 8.5/12 and finished sixth on the first reserve board, and the
35th Chess Olympiad in
Bled in 2002, where she scored 8.5/13 with a performance rating of 2435, to finish ninth on board one. She has represented Greece in nine
European Women's Team Chess Championships from 1992 to 2011, and won a gold medal on second board in
Debrecen 1992. She won two individual gold medals (in
Mangalia 1992 and
Varna 1994) and a team gold medal (in Varna 1992) in the Women's Chess Balkaniads. Between 27 and 28 February 2002, Anna-Maria Botsari achieved a new
Guinness World Record in
Kalavryta, Greece, by playing 1102 opponents in a little over 30 hours. Her score was +1095 =7–0. Botsari gained the
Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title in 1993. She won the Women's title of the 7th
Mediterranean Chess Championship in
Rijeka 2009. == Personal life ==