Peter Leko
Péter Lékó [ pe ː le ː ko ː tɛr ], FIDE - Title: Peter Leko ( born September 8, 1979 in Subotica in Vojvodina, Serbia) is a Hungarian chess player.
Biography
As Péter was two years old, his parents divorced. His mother is drawn with two sons to Szeged. He learned the rules of chess at the age of seven by his father and was soon regarded as a child prodigy. From 1989 he worked with Tibor Karolyi and trained six hours a day. In 1991 he won the World Championship in Mamaia the age group U12, U14, he was European champion in 1992 and received the title of International Master. From 1993 he worked together with Andras Adorjan, who taught him new opening skills, particularly in the Lékó of today often played Sveshnikov Variation. In 1994 he achieved the title of Grandmaster. With its 14 years, he was then the youngest grandmaster. In the same year he became champion of the U16 age group in Szeged. He then got invitations to tournaments the super grandmasters, where he initially celebrate any real success, but gained valuable experience. In the FIDE World Chess Championship 1997 in Groningen, he had a setback when he already failed in the first round to Roman Slobodjan.
In 1999 he received a sponsorship agreement with RWE and first won the Dortmund Chess Days. From 2000 to 2010 he was one of almost continuous to the ten best players in the world, but was long considered to be peaceful, to be world champion. In the FIDE World Chess Championship 1999 in Las Vegas, he failed in the second round by Sergei Movsesjan. However, in January 2000, he appeared because of competition with 4,5:1,5 victory against newly-crowned FIDE World Champion Alexander Khalifman his class. Chalifman retaliated at the FIDE World Cup in New Delhi in December 2000, when he defeated Lékó with 4,5:3,5. Also in the FIDE World Championship in Moscow in 2001 failed Lékó in the second round, this time to Ashot Anastassjan.
2002 was Lékó in the World XI at the competition Russia against the rest of the world and scored 5.5 points over 10 games ( 2 wins, 1 loss, and 7 draws). Following his victory in the Brain Games Candidates Tournament in Dortmund in 2002, where he was able to win in the semifinals against Alexei Shirov and in the final against Vesselin Topalov, he joined in October 2004 world title fight against Vladimir Kramnik in Brissago / Switzerland on. He failed only by a defeat in the 14th and final game, by which his opponent to 7:7 ( 2 wins, 2 losses and 10 draws) compensate and was able to defend the title.
In 2005 he won the Corus tournament in Wijk aan Zee. He was at this time next Garry Kasparov, Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik the only one in each of the three former Super Tournament ( Wijk aan Zee, Linares, Dortmund ) at least once could carry off a victory. After he was thus viewed in a row with the above three players as absolute world's best, he could no longer hold in a row this year. At the tournament to the FIDE World Championship in San Luis, only he came to fifth place. In 2006, he defeated former World Champion Anatoly Karpov in a rapid chess match in Miskolc with 4,5:3,5 ( 1 win, 7 draws). In 2007 he was defeated at the same place but Vladimir Kramnik with 3,5:4,5 ( 1 win, 2 losses ). At the World Cup 2007 tournament in Mexico City Lékó under eight participants took fourth place ( 2 wins, 2 losses, 10 draws).
In 2008, he was after 1999 and 2002 for the third time in the list of winners of the Dortmund Chess Days a. Since 1994 Lékó plays chess Olympiads for Hungary, most recently at the Chess Olympiad 2008. It this were the Chess Olympiads in 1994, 1996, 2000, 2002 (Silver medal for Hungary) and 2008 in Dresden, where he won gold.
In the World Chess Championship 2013 he supported as Viswanathan Anand 's second.
Lékó applies as a defense artists and also plays very strongly Chess960.
Private
Lékó since September 2000 married to Sofia, the daughter of the Armenian grandmaster Arshak Petrosian, who is also active as Leko 's second. He is a vegetarian. Further sporting activities he engaged in soccer, tennis and yoga.