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Category XI grandmaster tournament ( Gotth' Art Cup )

organised by the Hungarian Chess Federation between 22 February and 3 March 2010.

Lajos Portisch international grandmaster, who is the legend of Hungarian chess life, has been a participant at Chess Olympiads 20 times, Hungarian champion 9 times, Candidate to the title of World Champion 8 times, Sportsman of the Year 23 times will sit down to the table again.

It is worth mentioning that the challengers of Lajos Portisch include the 18-year old PROHÁSZKA Péter, who is also an international grandmaster as well as RAPPORT Richárd from Szombathely, who is possibly the greatest talent of the present Hungarian chess life and following in Peter Leko's footsteps he can already boast of two grandmaster norms only at the age of 13. When Grandmaster Portisch first became Candidate, Richard's parents may not even have been born yet ?

The other legend among the players is Alexander Beljavsky who has been playing for Slovenia recently and can be honoured as a Soviet Champion several times and gold medallist at the Chess Olympiads four times. Both Lajos Portisch and Alexander Beljavsky are well-known of their unbroken sportsmanship and uncompromising style. The two legendary players participate at the Category XI tournament.

The Talent and Courage International master tournament dedicated for the most talented young players will be organised simultaneously with the Main Tournament after an interruption of several years.

GM tournament (sort according rating)

IM tournament (sort according rating)

Nr.		Name	FED	Elo
1	GM	Beliavsky Alexander G	SLO	2657
2	GM	Ftacnik Lubomir	SVK	2546
3	GM	Portisch Lajos	HUN	2519
4	GM	Vajda Levente	ROU	2519
5	IM	Banusz Tamas	HUN	2517
6	GM	Prohaszka Peter	HUN	2501
7	IM	Bokros Albert	HUN	2479
8	IM	Neubauer Martin	AUT	2465
9	IM	Rapport Richard	HUN	2444
10	FM	Fodor Tamas Jr	HUN	2417

Nr.		Name	FED	Elo
1	FM	Gergacz Attila	HUN	2421
2	IM	Paschall William M	USA	2398
3	FM	Baratosi Daniel	ROU	2396
4	FM	Lorand Norbert	HUN	2346
5	IM	Banas Jan	SVK	2341
6	IM	Biro Sandor	ROU	2298
7	WGM	Rudolf Anna	HUN	2283
8		Nagy Gabor	HUN	2278
9		Szabo Bence	HUN	2261
10		Feher Adam	HUN	2260

In addition to the young male players, a girl Rudolf, Anna deserves special attention, since as a singly lady in the tournament she has set an objective to herself not lesser than try to secure her place in the Hungarian women team for the Chess Olympiad held this September by means of an outstanding performance.

The games can be followed on the afternoon of the playing days from 2:30 p.m. at the venue of: Gotth'Art Wellness & Conference Hotel; 9970 Szentgotthárd, Füzesi út 3/B; or a live coverage can be followed on the http://www.gottharthotel.com/ Internet website.