Nikoletta Lakos

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Nikoletta Némethné Lakos (born Nioletta Lakos ; born December 14, 1978 in Tapolca ) is a Hungarian chess player . She bears the title of Grand Master of Women (WGM).

Life

Both of Nikoletta Lakos' parents were teachers. She grew up in Tapolca and was taught chess at the local chess school. At the age of 18 she was voted Chess Player of the Year in Hungary in 1997. She graduated from the specialist school for trade and hospitality in Szombathely and then studied there at the University of Education . Lakos works in Szombathely for the Japanese electronics manufacturer TDK in Szombathely.

successes

Single successes

At the U12 World Championship for women in 1990 in Fond du Lac she finished third, at the U16 World Championship in Bratislava in 1993 she was second behind Elina Danieljan . The U16 European Championship in 1993 in Szombathely she finished third and in 1994 in Băile Herculane behind Natalja Schukowa as second. At the U18 World Cup in 1995 in Guarapuava, Brazil, she finished second behind Corina-Isabela Peptan . She won the Hungarian women's individual championship three times: in 1997 in Budapest (before Ildikó Mádl and Nóra Medvegy ), in 2002 also in Budapest and in 2005 in Szeged (before Ildikó Mádl and Veronika Schneider ).

In 1996 she won the 7th Chess Festival in the Vienna City Hall , a youth open of the SK Loosdorf, ahead of Günter Kuba and Elisabeth Pähtz . At the Women's World Cup in New Delhi in 2000 , she was eliminated in the first round with 3: 4 against Pia Cramling .

National team

For the Hungarian women's national team, she took part in five chess Olympiads between 1996 and 2004 with a positive overall result of 25 points from 49 games (+14 = 22 −13) and between 1997 and 2009 in four European team championships (16 points from 25 games; +13 = 6 −6). She was most successful at the European Team Championships in Gothenburg in 2005 : With a rating performance of 2510, she scored 5.5 points from 6 games on the first reserve board and received an individual gold medal for it. For the 18th Mitropa Cup , which took place in Portorož in 1998 , Hungary was the only nation to send an all-women team, with Nioletta Lakos at the top. The team finished next to last.

Club teams

In Hungary she plays for Szombathelyi MÁV Haladás Vasutas Sportegyesület . In Austria she played for the Upper Styrian Leoben, later for the East Styrian club Horn Union Ratten . In Germany she played for TSV Schott Mainz in the 1999/00 season , then since the 2001/02 season in the women's Bundesliga for USV Halle (since 2006 USV Volksbank Halle ), with whom she played in the 2006/07 and 2009 / 10 German team champions became. In the Czech Republic she played for Tatran Poštorná from Břeclav , she also played in Croatian and Serbian team championships. In the British 4NCL she played for Wood Green .

At the 2nd European Club Cup for women in 1997 in Rijeka , she took second place with the team of the Croatian Chess Club Kastav , playing on the top board . At the Club Cups in 1998 (in which she failed with her club in the preliminary round) and 1999 in Nova Gorica , she played on the first board of the team of the Croatian ŠK Belišće-Metalis . At the European Club Cup 1999 Lakos took part with a selection of women from Honvéd Budapest , which, however, lost all competitions in the preliminary round.

Title and rating

Since November 2000 she has held the title of Grand Master of Women (WGM). She achieved a norm for the title of International Master (IM) with overachievement at the 12th Dos Hermanas tournament in Dos Hermanas in April 2003. Her Elo number is 2215 (as of February 2020), the highest Elo number to date was 2415 in the second half of 1997. She was then on the shared 15th place in the FIDE women's world rankings .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nikoletta Lakos in the Veszprém Megyei Kortárs Lexicon (Hungarian)
  2. ↑ Women's World Chess Championship 2000 (English)
  3. ↑ Nikoletta Lakos' results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ Nikoletta Lakos' results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ^ Result of the Mitropa Cup 1998 on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ Nikoletta Lakos' results at the European Women's Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ Nikoletta Lakos' results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Lakos, Nikoletta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Némethné Lakos, Nikoletta (Hungarian Chess Federation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Tapolca