Péter Lékó

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Péter Lékó, 2013
Lékó, 2013
Association HungaryHungary Hungary
Born September 8, 1979
Subotica , Yugoslavia
title International Master (1992)
Grand Master (1994)
Current  Elo rating 2663 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2763 (April 2005)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Péter Lékó [ ˈpeːtɛr ˈleːkoː ], FIDE name : Peter Leko , (born September 8, 1979 in Subotica , Yugoslavia ) is a Hungarian chess player .

biography

Péter Lékó, Duisburg 1992

When Péter was two years old, his parents separated. His mother moved to Szeged with two sons . He learned the rules of chess from his father at the age of seven and was soon considered a child prodigy. From 1989 he worked with Tibor Károlyi and trained six hours a day. In 1990 he finished third at the U12 World Youth Championship in Fond du Lac . In 1991 he won the European Youth Championship in the U12 age group in Mamaia , in 1992 he became the European Youth Champion in the U14 and received the title of International Master . From 1993 he worked with András Adorján , who gave him new opening skills, especially in the Sveshnikov variant, which Lékó has often played to this day . In 1994 he achieved the title of Grand Master . At the age of 14, he was the youngest grandmaster to date. In the same year he became youth world champion of the U16s in Szeged . He then received invitations to world-class tournaments, in which he initially did not celebrate any outstanding success, but was able to gain valuable experience. At the 1997 FIDE World Championships in Groningen , he suffered a setback when he was defeated by Roman Slobodjan in the first round .

In 1999 he received a sponsorship contract with RWE and won the Dortmund Chess Days for the first time . From 2000 to 2010 he was almost always one of the ten best players in the world, but for a long time was considered too peaceful to become world champion . At the FIDE World Cup in Las Vegas in 1999 , he failed in the second round to Sergei Movsesjan . In January 2000, however, he showed his class by a competition victory with 4.5: 1.5 against the newly crowned FIDE world champion Alexander Chalifman . Chalifman retaliated at the FIDE World Championships in New Delhi in December 2000 when he defeated Lékó with 4.5: 3.5. Lékó also failed in the second round of the 2001 FIDE World Championships in Moscow , this time to Aschot Anastassjan .

Lékó and Topalow, Dortmund 2002

In 2002 Lékó was in the world selection in the match between Russia and the rest of the world and scored 5.5 points from 10 games (2 wins, 1 loss, 7 draws ). After his victory in the Braingames Candidates Tournament in Dortmund in 2002, in which he won the semi-finals against Alexei Schirow and in the final against Wesselin Topalow , he competed in the World Cup against Vladimir Kramnik in Brissago / Switzerland in October 2004 . There he failed only after a defeat in the 14th and last game, through which his opponent was able to equalize to 7: 7 (2 wins, 2 losses and 10 draws) and defend the title.

In 2005 he won the Corus tournament in Wijk aan Zee . At that time, he was the only one alongside Garri Kasparow, Viswanathan Anand and Wladimir Kramnik who was able to win at least once in each of the three super tournaments at the time (Wijk aan Zee, Linares, Dortmund).

Defending champion Péter Lékó, Dortmund 2009, Mayor Birgit Jörder makes the first move in the game Lékó - Wladimir Kramnik.

After he was seen as the absolute best in the world in a row with the three players mentioned above, he was no longer able to maintain this level. At the tournament for the FIDE World Championship in San Luis he only came in fifth place. In 2006 he defeated former world champion Anatoli Karpov in a rapid chess competition in Miskolc with 4.5: 3.5 (1 win, 7 draws). In 2007 he was defeated in the same place by Wladimir Kramnik with 3.5: 4.5 (1 win, 2 defeats). At the 2007 World Cup tournament in Mexico City , Lékó finished fourth out of eight participants (2 wins, 2 defeats, 10 draws).

In 2008, after 1999 and 2002, he entered the list of winners at the Dortmund Chess Days for the third time.

At the 2013 World Chess Championship he supported Viswanathan Anand as a second .

Lékó is considered a defensive artist and also plays Chess960 very well . Since the end of 2017, Péter Lékó has been the coach of the German chess hope Vincent Keymer .

Elo development

National team

Lékó participated with the Hungarian national team in the 1994 , 1996 , 2000 , 2002 , 2008 , 2010 , 2012 , 2014 and 2018 Chess Olympiads . With the team he reached second place in Bled in 2002 and in Tromsø in 2014 , and in the individual competition he won in Dresden in 2008 on the first board. He also took part in the World Team Championships in 2001, 2011 and 2015 and the European Team Championships in 1992 (for the third team Hungary), 1999, 2011 , 2015 and 2017 in part. In 1999 in Batumi he reached second place with the team and achieved the second best rating of all participants, in 2011 in Porto Carras and 2015 in Reykjavík he took third place with the team.

societies

With Matthias Blübaum for Deizisau in the 2018 Bundesliga finals

In the 1990s Lékó played for Honvéd Budapest , with whom he participated three times in the European Club Cup and in 1995 came second. In the Austrian State League A , he had a total of four missions for WSV ATSV Ranshofen in the 1990/91 and 1992/93 seasons . In the Russian team championship Lékó played in 2012 for SchSM-64 Moscow , 2013 for Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk , with whom he finished third, and in 2014 for the master Malachite Oblast Sverdlovsk . He also took part in the European Club Cup with these clubs and reached third place in 2012 with SchSM-64 Moscow and in 2014 with Malachite Oblast Sverdlovsk . In Germany, Lékó has been playing for SF Deizisau since the 2016/17 season , initially in the 2nd Bundesliga and since the 2017/18 season in the 1st Bundesliga . In Italy, Lékó plays for Obiettivo Risarcimento Padova's team , with whom he won the European Club Cup 2019, and in the Spanish team championship he played for Escola d'Escacs de Barcelona in 2018 .

Private

Sofia Lékó and Anna Dergatschova at the Dortmund Chess Days, July 2004

Since September 2000 Lékó has been married to Sofia, the daughter of the Armenian chess grandmaster Arshak Petrosian , who also works as Lékós second . He's a vegetarian . As a recreational sport, he does soccer, tennis and yoga.

Lots

Kramnik - Lékó, Brissago 2004 (8th match game)

literature

Web links

Commons : Péter Lékó  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Visszavágó (Hungarian)
  2. ↑ Great success at the World Youth Championship in USA . JugendSchach issue 6/1990, pp. 19–23 (report, tables, photo and games).
  3. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 82.
  4. ↑ Sparkassen - Chess - Meeting '99
  5. ↑ Dortmund Chess Meeting 2002
  6. ↑ Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2008
  7. ↑ Numbers according to FIDE Elo lists. Data sources: fide.com (period since 2001), olimpbase.org (period 1971 to 2001)
  8. ↑ 43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Open team line-up with individual results - Open Hungary. In: chess-results.com. October 5, 2018, accessed November 17, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Péter Lékos results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  10. ↑ Péter Lékos results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  11. ↑ Péter Lékos results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  12. ↑ a b Péter Lékos results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  13. ↑ 35th European Club Cup team line-up with individual results Obiettivo Risarcimento Padova. In: chess-results.com. November 16, 2019, accessed November 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lékó, Péter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leko, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Subotica , Yugoslavia