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In Conversation with – Episode 20: Peter Leko – ‘The Maestro’

How Peter played and stayed at the top right from the beginning? What was his experience with Fischer! How was the experience in Team Anand? What are some of his greatest games? How many other games can Peter play and how he beat me in Badminton?

Join us for an exclusive interview with the legend Peter Leko.

4:08 When Leko started playing tournaments
7:01 Open tournament he played before and after World U-16
9:57 Becoming youngest grandmaster back in 1994
13:08 Trophies he won
19:30 Leko saw Taj Mahal before Ganguly, his sister and Anand
19:33 Leko’s fantastic chess sets
19:50 Collecting various chess sets
23:32 Experience of interacting with Mikhail Tal
27:22 Experience of working with Bobby Fischer
34:18 How he got into football and it turned into a big hobby
38:00 Playing a charity football match against legendary f1 driver Michael Schumacher
41:21 Peter’s wife Sofia Petroszján’s contribution
47:30 Leko on his style
53:18 Working with Ganguly in team Anand
55:05 Why he stopped following Ganguly-Saleh game live for the sake his heart
1:29:52 Leko’s recommendation to develop positional sense
1:42:05 Leko on Leko system
2:02:36 Working with Kramnik and Anand as their seconds
2:06:55 If Leko will write a book
2:10:36 If he will start playing more once everything is back to normal
2:13:40 Why Keymer did not play FIDE Online Olympiad

Game analysis
56:16 Bareev – Leko, Dortmund 1995
1:08:44 Leko – Adams, Candidates 2002
1:13:04 Judit – Leko, Tilburg 1996
1:16:17 Leko – Carlsen, Linares 2007
1:23:18 Leko – Nihal, Isle of Man 2019
1:32:16 Leko – Radjabov, Linares 2006
1:35:36 Leko – Beliavsky, Bled Olympiad 2002
1:47:57 Shirov – Leko, Candidates 2002
1:52:46 Leko – Caruana, Wijk aan Zee 2013

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(3/4) I missed one very likely obvious winning move.
Here I played Bg2? but I should just play Qh6!
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