József Pintér

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József Pintér, 2007
Association HungaryHungary Hungary
Born November 9, 1953
Budapest
title International Master (1976)
Grand Master (1982)
Current  Elo rating 2528 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2595 (July 1998)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

József Pintér (born November 9, 1953 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian chess player . He is a grandmaster , chess trainer and chess journalist.

Chess career

József Pintér 1998

Pintér became International Master in 1976 and Grand Master in 1982. In the 1970s and 1980s he was one of the best Hungarian chess players and was within reach of the world's elite. Pintér played three times in the interzonal tournament : in 1982 in Las Palmas he was eighth, 1985 in Taxco tenth and 1987 in Zagreb eleventh. In his career he has achieved a number of very good placements in international tournaments: He won 1979, 1982 (shared with Viktor Kortschnoi ) and 1983 in Rome (Banco di Roma), 1985 in Prague (zone tournament), Copenhagen (invitation tournament, with 1, 5 points ahead of Bent Larsen and other strong players, Wassili Smyslow was fifth), as well as - together with Tukmakow - at the grandmaster tournament in Szirák . In 1987 Pinter won in Warsaw (zone tournament) and 1991 in Beersheba .

In 1978 and 1979 Pintér won the Hungarian national championship. His victory with black against Lajos Portisch in the Hungarian championship in 1984 was voted the best game of the half year by the 37th chess informator .

He won the Grandmaster Tournament in Recklinghausen in 1998. He was also successful in Dortmund . In 2000 he won the OPEN A at the Dortmund Schachtagen .

National team

Lajos Portisch , Zoltán Ribli , Gyula Sax and József Pintér at the 1986 Chess Olympiad in Dubai

Pintér took part in the 1980 , 1982 , 1984 , 1986 , 1988 , 1992 , 1996 and 1998 Chess Olympiads with the Hungarian national team. He reached second place with the team in 1980 and won the individual ranking on the first reserve board in 1984.

At the team world championship in 1985 he finished second with Hungary and achieved the best individual result on the fourth board.

He also took part in the European team championships in 1980, 1983, 1988, 1992 (with the second Hungarian team), 1997 and 1999, he reached second place with the team in 1980 and 1999, and third place in 1983.

societies

In the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s, Pintér played for Spartacus Budapest , with whom he won the European Club Cup in 1982 . He then played for the Honvéd Budapest team until 1999 , with whom he took part in the European Club Cup eight times, finishing second in both 1988 and 1995. In the 1999/2000 season he played for Nagykanizsa TSK , from 2000 to 2002 for PMSE Antenna Hung , from 2002 to 2004 again for Honvéd Budapest , from 2004 to 2007 for Postás MATÁV Sport Egyesület , in the 2007/08 season for MTK Budapest . From 2008 to 2016 he played for the team of Aquaprofit NTSK (formerly Nagykanizsa TSK) and became Hungarian team champion with them in 2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 and 2016 . In the 2017/18 season he competed for the Hűvösvölgyi Sakkiskola Sport Club , in the 2018/19 season for DVTK Sport Korlátolt Felelősségű Társaság . In the Austrian 1st Bundesliga (State League A until 2003) Pintér played from 1996 to 2006 and from 2009 to 2013 for SK Sparkasse Fürstenfeld , with whom he took part in the European Club Cup in 2004. In the Swiss National League A he played for Rössli Reinach in the 2004 season and for Club d'échecs de Neuchâtel in the 2012 and 2014 seasons . In France he played for Bischwiller until 2007 , in the Belgian Interclubs in the 2005/06 and 2011/12 seasons for the Koninklijke Brugse Schaakkring , in the 2007/08 season for the champion Vliegend Peerd Bredene . Pintér has already participated in the European Club Cup with UGA Barcelona (with whom he also won the Spanish team championship in 1993 ), KSH Minatori Mitrovicë and KSH Istogu Istog .

Trainer

Pintér has been the coach of the Hungarian national team since 2005. He is the head coach at the Géza Maróczy chess school of the Hungarian Chess Federation.

Books

  • A sakktaktika titkai I., II., III., IV., Secrets of Chess Tactics I. - IV. , (With István Pongó), 2002
  • 300 fejtörő, 300 puzzles , 2006
  • 1000 PAWN ENDINGS / 1000 FARMING END GAMES / 1000 FINALES DE PIONS / 1000 GYALOGVÉGJÁTÉK, 2006
  • 1000 ROOK ENDINGS / 1000 TURMENDSPIELE / 1000 FINALES DE TOURS / 1000 BÁSTYAVÉGJÁTÉK, 2007

Web links

Commons : József Pintér  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. 1982 Las Palmas Interzonal Tournament
  2. 1985 Taxco Interzonal Tournament
  3. 1987 Zagreb Interzonal Tournament
  4. Chessbase Mega Database 2007
  5. Recklinghäuser Schachtage 1998 on TeleSchach
  6. Dortmund Chess Meeting 2000 on TeleSchach (photos of the award ceremony)
  7. József Pintér's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  8. József Pintérs results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  9. József Pintér's results at European team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  10. a b c d József Pintérs results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  11. http://www.origo.hu/sport/sakk/20050603pinter.html
  12. Trainer of the Hungarian Chess Federation from 2007 ( Memento from March 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Hungarian)