Gábor Kállai

Gábor Kállai
Surname	Gábor Kállai
Association	Hungary
Born	February 21, 1959 Budapest
Died	December 31, 2021
title	International Master (1982) Grand Master (1995)
Current  rating	2456 (January 2022)
Best rating	2555 (July 2001)
Index card at FIDE (English)

Gábor Kállai (* 21st February 1959 in Budapest , † 31 December 2021 ) was a Hungarian Chess - Grandmaster , -author, umpire and -funktionär.

Chess player

Kállai received the grandmaster title in 1995 . With the Hungarian team he traveled to the 2001 World Team Championship in Yerevan as captain and second reserve player, but had no use. At the 2002 Chess Olympiad in Bled he was the captain of the Hungarian national team; Hungary won silver. Kállai took top places in several tournaments: III. Place GM tournament Ulaanbaatar (1984), III. Place Hungaroil Tournament Siófok (1990) and II-III. 1st place in the GM tournament Balatonberény (1995).

Gábor Kállai died of a heart attack on New Year's Eve 2021 at the age of 62 .

Chess author and chess journalist

• Gábor Kállai: Megnyitások Königyve, 1990 (Hungarian)
• Gábor Kállai: Book of Openings, Caissa Chess Books, 1996
• Gábor Kállai: Basic Chess Openings, 1997, Everyman Chess (English)
• György Honfi - Gábor Kállai: Újra csillog az ezüst, Sakkolimpia Bled, 2002 (Hungarian)
• Gábor Kállai - János Szabolcsi: 64 kockára 64 teszt, 2004 (Hungarian)
• Gábor Kállai: Sakkpéntek, 2006 (Hungarian)
• Gábor Kállai: Hol végződik a sakktábla ?, 2007 (Hungarian)
• Kállai was in charge of the chess section of the Hungarian daily newspaper Népszabadság .
• From 2006, Kállai took care of the two-week program SAKKK! at the TV channel SPORT1 TV .

Chess official

• Technical director of the Hungarian Chess Federation and captain of the men's national team from 2001 to 2005
• since 2006 PR director of the Hungarian Chess Federation

Chess trainer and referee

• Zoltán Ribli's trainer and second from 1983 to 1986
• Coach of Zsuzsa Polgár from 1980 to 1994
• since 1993 FIDE referee
• since 2006 FIDE Senior Trainer

societies

Michail Gurewitsch and Gábor Kállai analyze their Bundesliga match on February 24, 2002 in Porz

Kállai played in Hungary until 2004 for the Miskolci SSC , with which he was Hungarian team champion in 2000 and 2001 , in the 2004/05 season for Mozgáskorlátozottak PIREMON Sportegyesülete , from 2005 to 2007 for Postás MATÁV Sport Egyesület , in the 2008/09 season for Tabáni Spartacus Sport Egyesület , in the 2013/14 season for Budapesti Titánok Sportegyesület and in the 2017/18 and 2019/20 seasons for MTK Budapest .

In the German Federal Chess League he played for the Schachfreunde Neukölln in the 2001/02 season and in the Swiss National League A until 2000 for SK Bern . In France, Kállai plays for Cercle d'Echecs de Strasbourg . He took part in the European Club Cup six times between 1992 and 2007.

Web links

Commons : Gábor Kállai  - collection of images

• Replayable chess games by Gábor Kállai on chessgames.com (English)
• Profile at terasz.hu (Hungarian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Meghalt Kállai Gábor nemzetközi sakknagymester
2. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924–2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 82.
3. ↑ Olimpbase
4. ↑ ChessBase Megabase 2010
5. ↑ Gábor Kállai's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)