The native form of this personal name is Lékó Péter. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Peter Leko
Leko in 2013
Country
Hungary
Born
(1979-09-08) September 8, 1979 (age 44) Subotica, Vojvodina, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Title
Grandmaster (1994)
FIDE rating
2666 (June 2024)
Peak rating
2763 (April 2005)
Peak ranking
No. 4 (April 2003)
Peter Leko (Hungarian: Lékó Péter; born September 8, 1979) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster and commentator. He became the world's youngest grandmaster in 1994. He narrowly missed winning the Classical World Chess Championship 2004: the match was drawn 7–7 and so Vladimir Kramnik retained the title. He also came fifth in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 and fourth in the World Chess Championship 2007.
Leko has achieved victories in many major chess tournaments, including the annual tournaments at Dortmund, Linares, Wijk aan Zee and the Tal Memorial in Moscow. He won two team silver medals and an individual gold medal representing Hungary at eight Chess Olympiads as well as team bronze and silver and an individual silver medal at three European Team Championships.
Leko has been ranked as high as fourth in the FIDE world rankings, which he first achieved in April 2003.[1]
This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves.
^FIDE World Rankings April 2003 FIDE Accessed 6 September 2014
PeterLeko (Hungarian: LékóPéter; born September 8, 1979) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster and commentator. He became the world's youngest grandmaster...
players Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Peter Svidler, Alexander Morozevich, Levon Aronian, PeterLeko, and Vasyl Ivanchuk. Despite being rated significantly...
Classical World Chess Champion. He defended his title in 2004 against PeterLeko, and defeated the reigning FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov in a unification...
Brissago, Switzerland. Vladimir Kramnik, the defending champion, played PeterLeko, the challenger, in a fourteen-game match. The match ended 7–7, each player...
tournament was won by the 17-year-old PeterLeko, one of the two grandmasters participating in the event. Leko, who was born in the nearby town of Subotica...
Kc6 If 18.Ka4?, 18...Bc4 and 19...b5#. 18... Bb7+ ½–½ Leko vs. Kramnik, 2008 In the game PeterLeko–Vladimir Kramnik, Corus 2008, Black was able to obtain...
U-18), Matthew Sadler (silver, U-16), Vladimir Kramnik (silver, U-14), PeterLeko (bronze, U-10). In the girls events, Tea Lanchava took silver in the U-16...
five highest rated players (average of July 2004 and January 2005 ratings): Leko, Adams, Polgar, Shirov and Bacrot. The remaining ten places went to the highest...
Classical World Champion Vladimir Kramnik, and his most recent challenger, PéterLékó; The next four top-rated players, from the average of the July 2004 and...
and 1999, he also stayed at the house of young Hungarian grandmaster PeterLeko. From 2000 to 2002, Fischer lived in Baguio in the Philippines, residing...
months, 1 day 1991 Judit Polgár Hungary 15 years, 4 months, 28 days 1994 PéterLékó Hungary 14 years, 4 months, 22 days 1997 Étienne Bacrot France 14 years...
in the spring of 1996, and was won by International Grandmaster (GM) PéterLékó with 9½/11, ahead of GM Stanimir Nikolić with 9 points. 2006–present –...
Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik 2001 Garry Kasparov 2002 Garry Kasparov 2003 PeterLeko (with the same score as Vladimir Kramnik; won on tiebreak because of more...
skating champion, two-time bronze, World Figure Skating Hall of Fame PéterLékó (born 1979), chess player Imi Lichtenfeld, boxer and wrestler, developed...
would go on to play the winner of a match between Vladimir Kramnik and PéterLékó as part of the so-called "Prague Agreement" to reunify the World Chess...
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Karjakin was half a point behind. In the last round, Carlsen drew with PeterLeko, while Karjakin won against Baadur Jobava. Thus, they both finished the...
required for the title of International Master. He has been coached by PeterLeko of Hungary, who was himself once considered "the world's most promising...
round, Emanuel Berg in the seventh round, and PeterLeko in the eighth round. He lost to Aronian and Leko, and won against Adams, Korchnoi, and Berg. His...
vs PeterLeko, Classical World Chess Championship 2004, 14th Match Game, Brissago. Needing only a draw to win the World Championship, PeterLeko plays...
such as Alexander Grischuk, Michael Adams, Alexander Morozevich, and PeterLeko. Bareev was a three-time winner of the Premier Tournament at the annual...
and also on YouTube with commentary by players such as Yasser Seirawan, PeterLeko, and Tania Sachdev. They also hosted and sponsored their own events, especially...
sealed the championship in the final round with a 20-move draw against PeterLeko. Anand's performance in Mexico City saw him pick up four wins and 10 draws...
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