Krisztián Szabó

Krisztián Szabó, 2010
Association	Hungary
Born	June 21, 1989 Székesfehérvár
title	International Master (2005) Grand Master (2010)
Current  Elo rating	2480 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2564 (November 2013, January to February 2014)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Krisztián Szabó (born June 21, 1989 in Székesfehérvár ) is a Hungarian chess master .

Life

His father bought six-year-old Krisztián a chess computer and later brought him to the local chess club Fehérvár SE, where Ferenc Botos was his first coach. Since 1998 he has been a member of the ASE Paks, in whose first team he has played since the 2003/04 season in the NB I. Szabó László csoport , the highest Hungarian chess league. His coaches in Paks were Béla Molnár, then Miklós Orsó and, since 2003, László Hazai. In 2005 Szabó was named International Master , he had met the standards between November 2003 and December 2004 at three tournaments in Budapest . Szabó received the title of Grand Master in 2010 , and the mayor of Székesfehérvár personally congratulated him in the town hall. He met the required standards at a First Saturday tournament in Budapest in June 2009, in the 2009/10 Hungarian team championship and in February 2010 at the 26th Open in Cappelle-la-Grande .

He won or occupied top places in several tournaments: 1st place in the Hungarian U10 championship (1999), 1st place in the FS11-IM tournament Budapest (2003), 2nd place in the FS12-GM tournament Budapest (2004) 1st place at the Hungarian U16 championship (2005), 1st place at the FS10-GM tournament Budapest (2007), 1st place at the FS06-GM tournament Budapest (2009), 2nd place at the FS09-GM- Budapest Tournament (2009).

Szabó won the British Four Nations Chess League in the 2008/09 season with Wood Green Hilsmark Kingfisher , for whom he also played in the 2010/11 season. He played in the French top 12 in the 2012/13 2012/13 and 2014/15 seasons for Grasse Echecs . In February 2015 he was ranked 23rd in Hungary's Elo ranking.

Web links

• Replayable chess games by Krisztián Szabó on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sakk, az emberformáló játék
2. ↑ IM application to FIDE (English)
3. ↑ Szabó Krisztián sakk nagymestert köszöntötték a Városházán ( Memento from December 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ GM application to FIDE (English)
5. ↑ ChessBase Megabase 2010