Zoltán Almási

Zoltán Almási [ Zolta ː n ː ɒlma ʃi ] ( born August 29, 1976) is a Hungarian chess player.

Life

Almási won in 1993 as a 16 -year-olds think the Grandmaster tournament of Altensteig, in which he was succeeded by the replacement: He won by 1.5 points ahead of Artur Yusupov and thereby earned a grandmaster norm. The title reached Almási in the same year after winning the World Junior Championship of the under-18s. He won eight times the Hungarian Cup (1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2008 and 2009; Record Holder is Lajos Portisch with nine national championships ).

In 2010, he won the European Championship in Warsaw in rapid chess. In 2013 he won the 48th Capablanca Memorial in Havana ( category 18) with 6.5 points over 10 games and an Elo performance of 2800.

Even when Chess960 he is world class. He won in 2004 the FiNet Open ( Chess960) Étienne Bacrot ago at the Chess Classic in Mainz.

Almási is by Péter Lékó number two in the Hungarian rating list (as of March 2014).

Chess team

National

Since 1994, in Moscow, he represented his country at all so far nine chess Olympiads, where he was involved in 2002 in Bled instrumental in winning the silver medal ( 5 wins, 8 draws, no defeats ). 2010 in Khanty- Mansiysk, he won on the second board a silver medal. Between 1992 and 2013 Almási participated in eight European Team Championships. He reached inter alia in 1999 with the team's second place in 2011 with the team to third place and in the individual ranking on the second board in second place. In 2011, Almási also participate with the Hungarian team at the World Team Championship.

Chess club

In the NB I. Szabó László, the highest Hungarian league, Almási played until 2010 Honvéd Budapest. In the German Chess Bundesliga Almási played from 1994 to 2000 for the Dresdner SC, from 2002 to 2006 for the SC Kreuzberg and in the season 2011/ 12 for the USV TU Dresden, where he is reported since 2010. In the Austrian State League A Almási played from 1994 to 2003 at SK Sparkasse Fürstenfeld. The British Four Nations Chess League he won in 2000 with Slough, in the French Top 16, he played from 2003 to 2006 at CMEC Monaco. In the Bosnian Premijer League Almási was both in 2003 with the ŠK Kiseljak and 2007 with the ŠK Bosna Sarajevo runner-up.