Levente Vajda

Levente Vajda
Levente Vajda in 2008
Country	Romania
Born	(1981-02-13) 13 February 1981 Odorheiu Secuiesc, Romania
Title	Grandmaster (GM) (2001)
FIDE rating	2534 (June 2024)
Peak rating	2632 (February 2013)

Levente Vajda (born 13 February 1981) is a Romanian chess Grandmaster (GM) (2001).

Biography

From an early age Levente Vajda was a permanent representative of Romania at the World Youth Chess Championships. In 1993, in Bratislava he won bronze medal in U12 age group, a year later he repeated this success in Szeged in U14 age group. In 1997, in Yerevan Levente Vajda won gold medal in U16 age group, and he won another bronze medal in 1998 in Oropesa del Mar in U18 age group. In 1994, in Paris he ranked second in the European Youth Rapid Chess Championship.

From the late 1990s, Levente Vajda was one of the leading Romanian chess players. He has won five individual Romanian Chess Championships medals: four silver (1998, 2002, 2004, 2012) and bronze (2003).

Levente Vajda has achieved many successes on the international chess tournaments, including winning or shared the first places eleven times in cyclical Grandmaster tournaments First Saturday in Budapest (in 2000–2007). In 1996, he achieved the same result in Balatonberény, and in 1998 he won in Bucharest. In 2002, Levente Vajda finished first in the Europe Nagymesterverseny tournament in Budapest. In 2004, he won tournaments in Balatonlelle and Göd, while the following year Levente Vajda triumphed in Victor Ciocâltea memorial in Bucharest. In 2006, he took first place in Fourmies and Eforie, while in 2007 Levente Vajda triumphed in Balatonlelle.

Levente Vajda played for Romania in the Chess Olympiads:

• In 1998, at second reserve board in the 33rd Chess Olympiad in Elista (+2, =0, -1),
• In 2002, at first reserve board in the 35th Chess Olympiad in Bled (+4, =4, -2),
• In 2006, at first reserve board in the 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin (+5, =2, -4),
• In 2008, at reserve board in the 38th Chess Olympiad in Dresden (+5, =1, -3),
• In 2012, at fourth board in the 40th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul (+6, =3, -1),
• In 2014, at reserve board in the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromsø (+2, =4, -1),
• In 2018, at fourth board in the 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi (+5, =1, -2).

Levente Vajda played for Romania in the European Team Chess Championship:

• In 2011, at third board in the 18th European Team Chess Championship in Porto Carras (+4, =2, -2).

In 1996, he was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title and in 2001 he received the FIDE Grandmaster (GM) title. Levente Vajda is the brother of Women Grandmaster Szidonia Vajda (born 1979).

Levente Vajda streams on twitch.tv by the name of GM Trankulizerr. He competes in mini-tournaments on [lichess.org]

External links

• Levente Vajda player profile and games at Chessgames.com
• Levente Vajda chess games at 365Chess.com