Levente Lengyel
Levente Lengyel | |
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Country | Hungary |
Born | Debrecen, Hungary | 13 June 1933
Died | 18 August 2014 Budapest, Hungary | (aged 81)
Title | Grandmaster (1964) |
Peak rating | 2485 (July 1971) |
Levente Lengyel (13 June 1933 – 18 August 2014) was a Hungarian chess player, who gained the Grandmaster title in 1964.
Background
Lengyel gained the title of
Notable team results
Lengyel played for Hungary in six Olympiads between 1960 and 1970. His most notable results were:
- 15th Chess Olympiad 1962 Varna - Lengyel scored 8½/12 receiving an individual bronze medal, and Hungary finished 5th of 37 teams.
- 17th Chess Olympiad 1966 Havana - Lengyel scored 4/10 and Hungary finished 3rd of 52 teams, receiving bronze medals
- 19th Chess Olympiad 1970 Siegen - Lengyel scored 5½/12 and Hungary finished 2nd of 60 teams, receiving silver medals
His overall Olympiad record was 41 points from 70 games.[2]
Lengyel also played in the European Team Chess Championship three times between 1961 and 1970.[3] His results were as follows:
- 2nd European Team Championship 1961 Oberhausen - Lengyel scored 5½/10 and Hungary finished 3rd receiving bronze medals.
- 3rd European Team Championship 1965 Hamburg - Lengyel scored 5½/10 receiving an individual bronze medal. Hungary also finished 3rd for team bronze.
- 4th European Team Championship 1970 Kapfenberg - Lengyel scored 3½/7. Hungary finished 2nd receiving silver medals.
Notable individual results
- 1962 Hungarian Championship (Budapest) 1st= (lost to Lajos Portisch in a playoff)
- 1963 Enschede Zonal 2nd= (with Svetozar Gligoric)
- 1964 Hungarian Championship (Budapest) 3rd= (behind Portisch)
- 1964 Málaga 2nd= 7½/11 (with Portisch, winner Arturo Pomar 8½)[4]
- 1966 Polanica Zdroj Rubinstein Memorial 2nd= 9/14 (with Heinz Liebert, behind Vasily Smyslov 11)[5]
- 1968 Solingen 1st (ahead of Laszlo Szabo and Jan Hein Donner)
- 1972 Bari 1st
- 1972-73 Reggio Emilia 1st= 7/11 (with Luben Popov)[6]
- 1977 Budapest 1st
- 1977 Virovitica 1st
- 1977-78 Gausdal 1st
- 1980 Val Thorens 1st
- 1982 Val Thorens 1st= (with Miodrag Todorcevic)
Lengyel also played in the 1964 Amsterdam Interzonal, a preliminary round of the World Chess Championship, achieving 12th place with 13/23, 1.5 points short of qualifiying for the candidates matches (the winner was Smyslov with 17).[7]
Notable games
Portisch - Lengyel, Málaga 1964
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Darga - Lengyel, Amsterdam 1964
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Lengyel had wins against former World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik,[8] but perhaps his two most memorable results were two games which finished in somewhat unorthodox fashion:
Portisch - Lengyel, Málaga 1964, where he achieved a stalemate draw with a spectacular queen sacrifice.[9]
In the left-hand board position (after 52. f4) Lengyel played 52... Qg4+! 53. Kh6 (53. Kxg4 is stalemate and 53. Kf6 is met by 53... Qe6+ with stalemate if the queen is taken, otherwise the game will end in
Darga - Lengyel,
In the right-hand board position (after 41... R6xe2+) Darga played 42. Resigns??, instead of 42. Rxe2 Bxh4+ 43. Ke3 where White should win with his additional
References
- ^ Fehér Gyula (2014-08-19). "Lengyel Levente (1933–2014)" (in Hungarian). Hungarian Chess Federation (Magyar Sakkszövetség). Retrieved 2014-08-20.
- ^ "Olympiad results card". Retrieved 11 October 2009.
- ^ "European Team Championship results card". Retrieved 11 October 2009.
- ^ "Malaga 1964 crosstable" (in Polish). Retrieved 25 October 2009.
- ^ "Rubinstein Memorial 1966 crosstable" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 20 August 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2009.
- ^ "Reggio Emilia 1972-3 crosstable" (in Italian). Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 25 October 2009.
- ^ "1964 Amsterdam Interzonal crosstable". Retrieved 25 October 2009.
- ^ "Lengyel - Botvinnik, Belgrade 1969". Retrieved 26 October 2009.
- ^ "Portisch - Lengyel, Malaga 1964". Retrieved 26 October 2009.
- ^ "Darga - Lengyel, Amsterdam 1964". Retrieved 26 October 2009.
External links
- Levente Lengyel rating card at FIDE at the Wayback Machine (archived 2014-08-21)
- Levente Lengyel player profile and games at Chessgames.com