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About Gábor Kállai
- Gábor Kállai (born February 21, 1959) is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster.
- His Elo rating in October 2008 was 2462, but has been as high as 2555 (in 2001). In team championships he has won several gold medals; in Hungary with MTK-VM and with Miskolci SSC, in Switzerland with the team of Bern, and in France with the team of Strasbourg. He has written nine books, published in multiple languages.
- Basic Chess Openings is his most popular work, published in Hungarian, English, Italian, German and French.
- Since 2005 he has written a chess column in the Hungarian daily newspaper Népszabadság and from 2006 has presented a TV-program on Hungarian SPORT1 TV (SAKKK!).
- In 2014, he was named chair of MTK's chess section. As a chess trainer, he worked between 1983–1986 as a second of GM Zoltán Ribli, between 1980–1994 as one of the coaches of Zsuzsa Polgár and in 2005, was appointed a FIDE Senior Trainer (the highest trainer licence of FIDE).
- From 2012 to 2013 he coached Kayden Troff and between 2012 and 2015 Jeffery Xiong.
- In 2015, he was appointed a master instructor at the Hungarian Physical Education University.From 2001 to 2005 he was the Professional Director of the Hungarian Chess Federation (HCF).
- He coached the Hungarian Men's Team for the 2002 Bled Chess Olympiad, guiding the team to the silver medal position.
- From 2005 to 2010 he was the Public Relations Director of the HCF.
- In 2006, he was a founding member of the Hungarian Association of Talent Support Organizations.
- Since 2014, he is Member of the Board of Directors at Bay Area Chess.
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