| marital status: |
Peter Leko is married with Sofya Petrosyan since September 2 nd 2000 |
| Hobbies: |
Football, Tennis, Bowling, Music |
| Peter Leko was born in 1979. He became the youngest grandmaster in the history of chess in 1994, at 14 years of age. In 2002 he took his first major international victory at Dortmund, in an event that doubled as a Candidates tournament to select a challenger for classical World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik .
The promised match with Kramnik took place in 2004, and Leko came extremely close to becoming Hungary's first World Champion. He led by one point going into the fourteenth and final game, but was then beaten by Kramnik, who thereby tied the match and retained his title. |
| 2005: |
Peter Leko wins Wijk aan Zee 2005 |
| 2004: |
2 nd at Linares (Cat 20) |
| 2004: |
2 nd at Wijk aan Zee (Cat 19) |
| 2003: |
2 nd place at Monaco |
| 2003: |
Winner of Linares (Cat 20) |
| 2002: |
Classical World Chess Championship: Winner of the Candidates Tournanent at Dortmund becoming the official Challenger of World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik |
| 2002: |
2 nd place at Essen (Cat.17) |
| 2002: |
3 rd place at Monaco |
| 2002: |
Winner of the Rapid Grand Prix at Dubai |
| 2001: |
Winner of the Rapid Master Event in Nordhorn (Germany) |
| 2001: |
3 rd place at Dortmund (Cat. 21) |
| 2001: |
Winner (4,5-3,5) in a Fischer-Random-Match over IGM Michael Adams in Mainz (Germany) |
| 2000: |
Winner (4,5-1,5) in a classical match over former WC Alexander Khalifman in Budapest |
| 1999: |
Winner of Dortmund (Cat. 19) |
| 1999: |
Winner of the Rapid Grand Prix in Bordeaux (France) |
| 1998: |
2 nd place at Tilburg (Cat. 18) |
| 95-97: |
Winner of several GM tournaments such as in Denmark, Cuba, Columbia |
| 1996: |
Junior World Champion U16 |
| 1995: |
Sensational 3 rd place as 15-year old boy in Dortmund (Cat. 17) |
| 1994: |
International Grandmaster (youngest GM in the history of Chess) |
| 1992: |
International Master |
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