Zoltán Almási


Zoltán Almási, 2011
Association	Hungary Hungary
Born	August 29, 1976
title	International Master (1992) Grand Master (1993)
Current Elo rating	2687 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2726 (July 2011)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Zoltán Almási [ ˈzoltaːn ɒlmaːʃi ] (born August 29, 1976 ) is a Hungarian chess player .

Life

In 1993, when he was 16, Almási won the grandmaster tournament in Altensteig , where he was a substitute: He won 1.5 points ahead of Artur Jussupow and thus achieved a grandmaster norm. Almási achieved the title in the same year after winning the World Youth Championship for under 18s. He won the Hungarian championship nine times (1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2019) and is the record holder with Lajos Portisch .

In 2010 he won the European Rapid Championship in Warsaw . In 2013 he won the 48th Capablanca Memorial in Havana ( category 18) with 6.5 points from 10 games and an Elo rating of 2800.

He is also world class with the Chess960 . He won the FiNet Open (Chess960) at the Chess Classic in Mainz 2004 ahead of Étienne Bacrot .

Team chess

National team

Since the 1994 Chess Olympiad in Moscow , he has represented his country at all chess Olympiads , where he was instrumental in winning the silver medal in Bled in 2002 and Tromsø in 2014 (5 wins, 8 draws , no defeat or 5 wins, 4 draws, one defeat; always on the third board). In 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk he won a silver medal in the individual ranking on the second board. In 1992 (with Hungary's third team), 1997, 1999, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 , 2013 and 2015 Almási took part in the European team championships . He achieved second place with the team in 1999, third place in 2011 and 2015 and second place in the individual ranking in 2011 on the second board, and third place on the third board in 2013 and 2015. In 2011 and 2015 Almási also took part in the World Team Championship with the Hungarian team .

Club chess

Zoltán Almási, 1998 at the Dortmund Chess Days

In the NB I. Szabó László , the highest Hungarian league, Almási played until 2010 with Honvéd Budapest . In the 2016/17 season he played for Lila Futó-Hóbagoly SE , and since the 2017/18 season he has been playing for DVTK Sport Korlátolt Felelősségű Társaság . In the German Federal Chess League, Almási played for Dresdner SC from 1994 to 2000, for SC Kreuzberg from 2002 to 2006 , and since 2010 he has played for USV TU Dresden , including in the 2011/12 season and since the 2014/15 season in the 1st Bundesliga. In the Austrian State League A Almási played from 1994 to 2003 at SK Sparkasse Fürstenfeld . He won the British Four Nations Chess League in 2000 with Slough , the Spanish team championship in 2014 with the team of Mérida Patrimonio de la Humanidad (for which he played from 2007 to 2010), he played in the French Top 16 from 2003 to 2006 at CMEC Monaco . In the Bosnian Premijer Liga Almási was runner-up both in 2003 with the ŠK Kiseljak and in 2007 with the ŠK Bosna Sarajevo . At the European Club Cup Almási took 1993-1997 with Honvéd Budapest in part (with whom he 1993 and 1995, the second place went to) 1998 to 2000 with the ŠK Radonja Bojović Nikšić , 2003 with the ŠK Kiseljak , with whom he finished third, and in 2007 with the ŠK Bosna Sarajevo .