Chess fans from five Continents are to concentrate on the event taking place in
As the first stage of the Lékó… series Peter Leko played against Michael Adams in 2005. The exciting duel ended in a tie 4-4.
Three years ago Leko’s opponent was the twelfth world champion of chess, AnatolyKarpov, in the new shrine of chess, The fans both on the spot selling out the National Theater of unique beauty and those via internet were amazed by the games – with good reason. Lékó took the lead by winning the third game and could preserve his advantage till the end gaining a victory of 4,5-3,5.
Two years ago, in the pursuance of the series our GM’s opponent and the special guest of
After the great champions, Péter Leko was facing the pretender, Magnus Carlson last year. Similar to Leko but in ten years’ time, the Norwegian Wunderkind, who is also known as Mozart of the Chess, was the youngest GM in the world. At the age of fifteen he became world champion candidate and in the last year’s World Cup finished third. In the first super event of the year, in Wijk aan Zee, he fascinated the chess world with his dead-heat first place. Afterwards, he repeated his success in
Before the duel of
One could hardly wait for the fifth, anniversary duel. The 15th world champions of chess, the 39 year-old Viswanathan Anand can be seen by the Hungarian chess fans „live” for the first time in his career. In 1987, he became youth world champion, in 1988 International Grandmaster. In 1995 he played PCA World Championship Final against Garri Kasparov, but was defeated by 10,5-7,5. In 1998 he encountered for the World Champion title against Anatoly Karpov but after 3-3, however he lost in the rapid play-off. In 2000, he overcame Aleksei Shirov with a supercilious performance of 3,5-0,5 in the FIDE World Championship Final. In 2007, in the World Championship in
The chess player of the year title has been awarded him five times. Among his great number of triumphs, five first places in Wijk aan Zee and three victories in
Among others he prevailed five times at the Amber-tournament and won eight times in the arena of
Peter Leko and Viswanathan Anand played against each other for the first time in a blitz game in 1994 and, since then, they tried a fall in 72 games.
They played classical, rapid, blind and blitz games, respectively. Anand is on the lead by 21-7 beside 45 draws. In rapid games the Indian world champion won seven times, lost three times and ten games were draws.
According to the ranking list of 1 April 2009, Anand is ranked 2nd with 2783 ELO-points, while Leko occupies the ninth place with 2751 points.
The parties will have 25 minutes each as time for thinking with a bonus of 10 seconds per moves. Inasmuch as the duel of eight games ends up in a 4-4 draw blitz games are to decide.
Official website: http://www.lekoanand.hu/eng/
5-3 Anand.
8-0 Fischer
I think the article is not only written by a non native person ( was a language translator used?), but also it does not have the facts correct.
Sergey Karjakin was the youngest grandmaster, and if we look at current youngest, it is still not Magnus. As of Jan 31, 2009, it is Anish Giri.