Tibor Károlyi (chess player)
{{short description|Hungarian chess player (born 1961)}}
{{other people|Tibor Károlyi}}
{{Eastern name order|Károlyi Tibor}}
{{Infobox chess player
|name = Tibor Károlyi
|image= Tibor Károlyi chessmaster.jpg
|caption=
|country = Hungary
|birth_place = Hungary
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1961|11|15|df=y}}
|title = International Master (1983)
|rating = 2324 (January 2016)
|peakrating = 2475 (January 1988)
}}
Tibor Károlyi (born 15 November 1961) is a Hungarian chess International Master, International Arbiter (1997), coach, theoretician, and author.
Career
Károlyi won the open Hungarian Chess Championship in 1984 (the closed championship was won by Andras Adorjan). In 1989 he started his coaching career. Among his students were Peter Leko, Judit Polgár, Ildikó Mádl and Jason Goh Koon-Jong.
Károlyi has written numerous theoretical articles for New in Chess,{{cite web|url=http://www.newinchess.com/Tibor_Karolyi-pa-517.html|title=Tibor Karolyi - Products - New In Chess|publisher=New In Chess|access-date=2009-07-07}} but he is probably best known as author of popular chess books. His book Endgame Virtuoso Anatoly Karpov (co-authored with Nick Aplin) won The Guardian 2007 Chess Book of the Year award.{{cite web|url=http://www.schaakboekenspecialist.nl/N_frame.html?http://www.schaakboekenspecialist.nl/Endgame-Virtuoso-Anatoly-Karpov--N_art_109.html|title=Endgame Virtuoso Anatoly Karpov|publisher=De Chaakboekenspecialist|access-date=2009-07-07}}
His handle on Playchess is "tkarolyi".
Notable games
- [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1069864 Garry Kasparov vs. Tibor Karolyi Jr., Dortmund 1980, Queen's Indian Defense: Kasparov–Petrosian Variation (E12), ½–½]
- [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1140802 Mikhail Tal vs. Tibor Karolyi Jr., Tallinn 1985, Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense, Main Line (D42), ½–½]
- [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1410006 Jaan Ehlvest vs. Tibor Karolyi Jr., Tallinn 1985, Spanish Game: Morphy Defense, Fianchetto Defense Deferred (C76), 0–1]
- [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1016849 Andras Adorjan vs. Tibor Karolyi Jr., Ch Hungary (team) 1993, Zukertort Opening: Sicilian Invitation (A04), 0–1]
Bibliography
- {{cite book|author=Karolyi, Tibor|title=Judit Polgar – The Princess of Chess|year=2004|publisher=Batsford|isbn=0713488905}}
- {{cite book|author=Karolyi, Tibor|author2=Aplin, Nick |author-link2=Nick Aplin|title=Kasparov's Fighting Chess 1993-1998|year=2007|publisher=Batsford|isbn=978-0713489941}}
- {{cite book|author=Karolyi, Tibor|author2=Aplin, Nick|title=Kasparov's Fighting Chess 1999-2005|year=2007|publisher=Batsford|isbn=9780-7134-8984-2}}
- {{cite book|author=Karolyi, Tibor|author2=Aplin, Nick|title=Endgame Virtuoso Anatoly Karpov|year=2007|publisher=New In Chess|isbn=978-90-5691-202-4}}
- {{cite book|author=Karolyi, Tibor|author2=Aplin, Nick|title=Kasparov: How His Predecessors Misled Him About Chess|year=2009|publisher=Batsford|isbn=9781906388263}}
- {{cite book|author=Karolyi, Tibor|author2=Aplin, Nick|title=Genius in the Background|year=2009|publisher=Quality Chess|isbn=978-1906552-37-4}}
- {{cite book|author=Karolyi, Tibor|title=Karpov's Strategic Wins 1 - The Making of a Champion 1961-1985|year=2011|publisher=Quality Chess|isbn=978-1906552-41-1}}
- {{cite book|author=Karolyi, Tibor|title=Karpov's Strategic Wins 2 - The Prime Years 1986-2010|year=2011|publisher=Quality Chess|isbn=978-1906552-42-8}}
- {{cite book|last=Karolyi|first=Tibor|title=Mikhail Tal's Best Games 1 - The Magic of Youth 1949-1959|date=2014|publisher=Quality Chess|isbn=978-1-907982-77-4}}
- {{cite book|last=Karolyi|first=Tibor|title=Mikhail Tal's Best Games 2 - The World Champion 1960-1971|date=2015|publisher=Quality Chess|isbn=978-1-907982-79-8}}
- {{cite book|last=Karolyi|first=Tibor|title=Legendary Chess Careers - Yasser Seirawan|date=2016|publisher=Chess Evolution|isbn=978-83-944290-4-1|year=2016|location=Niepolomice, Poland}}
- {{cite book|author=Karolyi, Tibor|title=Endgame Virtuoso Magnus Carlsen|year=2018|publisher=New In Chess|isbn=978-9056917760}}
References
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External links
- {{Fide|name=Tibor Karolyi}}
- {{chessgames player|id=18054|name=Tibor Karolyi}}
- [http://www.365chess.com/players/Tibor_Jr_Karolyi Tibor Karolyi] chess games at 365Chess.com
- {{chessclub player|chesstrainer}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081219002645/http://www.greekchess.com/wycc2004/karolyi.html Interview with Tibor Karolyi]
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Category:Chess International Masters