Kallai Gabor (21.02.1959)

kallaismlHungarian Grandmaster (1995), International Arbiter (1993), FIDE Senior Trainer (2005), PR Director of the Hungarian chess federation (2005-2010), columnist, and coach. Kallai was a member of the Hungarian team at the World U26 in 1981. Second of GM Zoltán Ribli (1983-1986), between 1980-1994 he was one of the coaches of Zsuzsa Polgár. Coach of the Hungarian team at the 2002 Olympiad.

Best results: Shared first in Budapest 1981, Kecskemet 1984, Wiesbaden 1988 and 1990. He also came second in Karditsa 1984, at Wiesbaden Open 1993, Balatonbereny 1995 and Bern 1997.

Peak rating: 2555 in 2001.

The author of Winning with the English (with Z. Ribli), Basic Chess Openings (1997) and More Basic Chess Openings (1997).