Tibor Karolyi

International Master Tibor Karolyi is a former Hungarian chess champion. His book Endgame Virtuoso Anatoly Karpov won the Guardian Chess Book of the Year Award in 2007. He has written books on many great players’ careers, including Kasparov, Karpov, Tal, Portisch and Judit Polgar, as well as Tigran Petrosian and Viktor Korchnoi. He has coached Peter Leko, Olympic champions Sofia Polgar and Ildiko Madl, and Olympic silver medalist and European Community champion Zoltan Gyimesi. Five of his junior pupils have won a total of nine world championship medals for their age groups. He is twice the Senior World Champion at Racketlon.