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Peter Leko ((ハンガリー語:'Lékó Péter'); (セルビア語:Петер Леко)); born September 8, 1979 in Subotica, Yugoslavia) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. He became the world's youngest grandmaster in 1994. A two-time World Championship Candidate, he challenged Vladimir Kramnik in the Classical World Chess Championship 2004 and drew the match 7–7, with Kramnik retaining the title. 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.〔(FIDE World Rankings April 2003 ) FIDE Accessed 6 September 2014〕 He is married to Sofia Petrosian, daughter of Armenian grandmaster Arshak Petrosian who is also Leko's trainer. ==Early years== Peter Leko was born in the city of Subotica, Yugoslavia but moved to Szeged when he was one year old. He was taught chess by his father shortly before he turned seven and took part in tournaments from the age of nine.〔(The Young Lions ), Yosef Vatnikov. Accessed 23 August 2014〕〔 His first coach Tibor Karolyi began work with him in 1989, ending three months before Leko became a grandmaster. They later reunited in 1998 until the end of 2000.〔("I'm ready to work towards my goals step by step" ) Reocities.com Accessed 23 August 2014〕 Leko also worked with International Master Gaspar Mathe when he was ten years old. As a junior player, Leko competed in several age categories in the World Youth Chess Championship, winning bronze in the under-10 section in 1989, bronze in the under-12 in 1990, fourth place in the under-14 in 1992, silver in the under-14 in 1993 and gold in the under-16 in 1994. Leko earned the International Master title in 1992. In 1994 he became a Grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 4 months and 22 days, at the time the youngest to have done so, breaking the record previously held by Judit Polgar.〔(Prodigies and mini-grandmasters ) Chessbase Accessed 23 August 2014〕 His norms came at a First Saturday tournament in Budapest and Leon (sharing third place with Anatoly Karpov and Veselin Topalov) in 1993, and shared third place at Hoogovens in 1994.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/01/arts/hungarian-youth-14-sets-chess-record.html )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/chess-triumph-of-age-over-experience-1391309.html )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Leko」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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