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    Peter Leko (Hungarian: Lékó Péter; born September 8, 1979) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster and commentator. He became the world's youngest grandmaster...
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    players Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Peter Svidler, Alexander Morozevich, Levon Aronian, Peter Leko, and Vasyl Ivanchuk. Despite being rated significantly...
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    Brissago, Switzerland. Vladimir Kramnik, the defending champion, played Peter Leko, the challenger, in a fourteen-game match. The match ended 7–7, each player...
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    Classical World Chess Champion. He defended his title in 2004 against Peter Leko, and defeated the reigning FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov in a unification...
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  • Kc6 If 18.Ka4?, 18...Bc4 and 19...b5#. 18... Bb7+ ½–½ Leko vs. Kramnik, 2008 In the game Peter Leko–Vladimir Kramnik, Corus 2008, Black was able to obtain...
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    tournament was won by the 17-year-old Peter Leko, one of the two grandmasters participating in the event. Leko, who was born in the nearby town of Subotica...
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    2016. In October and November 2002, Polgár played on second board (with Péter Lékó on first) for Hungary in the 35th Chess Olympiad. While not having the...
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    U-18), Matthew Sadler (silver, U-16), Vladimir Kramnik (silver, U-14), Peter Leko (bronze, U-10). In the girls events, Tea Lanchava took silver in the U-16...
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     Alexander Grischuk (RUS), 2732  Michael Adams (ENG), 2725  Peter Svidler (RUS), 2723  Peter Leko (HUN), 2722  Judit Polgár (HUN), 2722  Ruslan Ponomariov (UKR)...
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    and 1999, he also stayed at the house of young Hungarian grandmaster Peter Leko. From 2000 to 2002, Fischer lived in Baguio in the Philippines, residing...
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