Peter Leko

The native form of this personal name is Lékó Péter. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Peter Leko
Leko in 2013
CountryHungary
Born (1979-09-08) September 8, 1979 (age 45)
Subotica, Vojvodina, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
TitleGrandmaster (1994)
FIDE rating2666 (November 2024)
Peak rating2763 (April 2005)
RankingNo. 63 (November 2024)
Peak rankingNo. 4 (April 2003)

Peter Leko (Hungarian: Lékó Péter; born September 8, 1979) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster and commentator. He became the world's youngest grandmaster in 1994. He narrowly missed winning the Classical World Chess Championship 2004: the match was drawn 7–7 and so Vladimir Kramnik retained the title. He also came fifth in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 and fourth in the World Chess Championship 2007.

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.[1]

This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves.
  1. ^ FIDE World Rankings April 2003 FIDE Accessed 6 September 2014