Peter Leko

Péter Lékó (b. September 8, 1979 in Subotica, Serbia and Montenegro) is a Hungarian chess player. He became a grandmaster in 1994 at the age of 14 years (a world record at the time). In the October 2005 FIDE list, he has an ELO rating of 2751, making him number four in the world, and Hungary's number one. He is considered to be one of the most important opening theorists in the professional circuit http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2590.

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September 8 - 1979 - Subotica - Serbia and Montenegro - Hungarian - Chess - FIDE - ELO rating

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Under the terms of the so-called "Prague Agreement", masterminded by Yasser Seirawan, and intended to unite the two World Chess Championships, Lékó's 2002 win at Dortmund qualified him to play a match against Vladimir Kramnik. It was intended that the winner of this match would play the winner of a match between Garry Kasparov and the FIDE World Chess Champion (first Ruslan Ponomariov, then Rustam Kasimdzhanov) to decide the undisputed world champion. After several delays, the match was held from September 25-October 18, 2004. It ended in a 7-7 tie, which entitled Kramnik to remain the reigning "classical" world champion.

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Prague Agreement - Yasser Seirawan - World Chess Championship - Vladimir Kramnik - Garry Kasparov - FIDE - Ruslan Ponomariov - Rustam Kasimdzhanov

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In 2001, Lékó narrowly defeated Grandmaster Michael Adams in an eight game Fischer Random Chess (Chess960) match played as part of the Mainz Chess Classic. As a result, Lékó was hailed by many as the first Fischer Random Chess world champion. This claim is not universally accepted, since there were no open qualifying matches. Many do accept the claim, however, since this was also true of the first orthodox world chess champion titleholders, and both players were in the top five in the January 2001 world rankings for orthodox chess.

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2001 - Michael Adams - Fischer Random Chess

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In September 2005, Lékó will play for the World Chess Championship title in San Luis, Argentina, along with other notable players such as Viswanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov, see FIDE World Chess Championship 2005.

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World Chess Championship - San Luis, Argentina - Viswanathan Anand - Veselin Topalov - FIDE World Chess Championship 2005

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