Csaba Horváth (chess player)


Csaba Horváth, Leiden 2008
Surname	Csaba Horváth
Association	Hungary Hungary
Born	5th June 1968
title	International Master (1986) Grand Master (1993)
Current Elo rating	2518 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2566 (June 2014)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Csaba Horváth (* 5. June 1968 ) is a Hungarian Chess - Grandmaster and umpire.

Career

Horváth received the grandmaster title in 1993 . He won the Hungarian individual championship in 1994. For the Hungarian national team he took part in the Chess Olympiad twice (1990 and 1998). Horváth won or occupied top places in several tournaments: II-III. Place Barcza Memorial (1987), I. Place Noviki-A Tournament Budapest (1990), I. Place IM Tournament Budapest (1991), I. Place Eurodata Tournament Budapest (1992), II-V. Place Honvéd Tournament Budapest (1994), I-II. FS08 GM tournament Budapest (1994), II-III. FS10 GM tournament Budapest (1994), 1st place FS05 GM tournament Budapest (1996), I-II. 1st place Honvéd tournament Budapest (1997), 2nd place GM-A tournament Cairo (1997), 1st place FS12 GM tournament Budapest (1998), 2nd place FS04 GM tournament Budapest (1999), 2nd place Cvitanovic Memorial Split (2001 ), II-III. 1st place ShakkiNet GM tournament Helsinki (2001), 1st place FS04 GM-A tournament Budapest (2002), 1st place Cvitanovic Memorial Split (2004).

Horváth has been an international referee for FIDE since 1998 . His brother József is also a grandmaster.

National team

Csaba Horváth took part with the Hungarian national team in the 1990 and 1998 Chess Olympiads and the European Team Championships in 1989 and 1992.

societies

Horváth played in Hungary in the 1980s and 1990s with Honvéd Budapest , with whom he took part in the European Club Cup six times and came second in 1989, 1993 and 1995, later until 2009 for the Csuti Antal SK Zalaegerszeg , with whom he was in 2002 , 2003 , Was Hungarian team champion in 2004 , 2005 , 2006 and 2008 and took part in the European Club Cup five times, since then for Pénzügyőr Sport Egyesület . In the Austrian 1st Bundesliga or State League A he played from 1990 to 2000, in the 2002/03 season and from 2005 to 2008 at SC Die Klagenfurter (until 1997 SG ASK / KSV Klagenfurt ), with whom he also played in 1997 at the European Club Cup participated and in the 2012/13 season at SK Husek . In Belgium he plays for KSK 47 Eynatten , with whom he became Belgian team champion in 2004 , 2006 , 2014 and 2017 , and in the 2011/12 season he played for L'Echiquier Amaytois . Horváth has been playing for the ŠK AQUAMARIN Podhájska in the Slovakian extra league since 2017 .