{"id":1273,"date":"2022-01-01T19:16:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T19:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2022-01-01T19:16:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T19:16:21","slug":"hungarian-grandmaster-gabor-kallai-feb-21-1959-dec-31-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/?p=1273","title":{"rendered":"Hungarian Grandmaster Gabor Kallai (Feb. 21, 1959 \u2013 Dec. 31, 2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are saddened about the passing of our friend and member of our coaching staff for KCF&#8217;s Young Stars program, Hungarian Grandmaster Gabor Kallai. Condolences to his family, friends and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Gabor was author of nine books, published in multiple languages. Since 2005 he has written a chess column in the Hungarian daily newspaper\u00a0<a title=\"N\u00e9pszabads\u00e1g\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/N%C3%A9pszabads%C3%A1g\">N\u00e9pszabads\u00e1g<\/a>\u00a0and from 2006, served as host of a TV-program on Hungarian SPORT1 TV (SAKKK!). In 2014, he was named chair of MTK&#8217;s chess section. In 2015, he was appointed a master instructor at the Hungarian Physical Education University.<\/p>\n<p>He coached the Hungarian Men&#8217;s Team for the\u00a0<a title=\"35th Chess Olympiad\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/35th_Chess_Olympiad\">2002 Bled Chess Olympiad<\/a>, 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 was member of the board of directors at Bay Area Chess.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1274\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1274\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1274\" src=\"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/kallaiport17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/kallaiport17.jpg 480w, https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/kallaiport17-300x262.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kallai with students at the American International School in Budapest<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are saddened about the passing of our friend and member of our coaching staff for KCF&#8217;s Young Stars program, Hungarian Grandmaster Gabor Kallai. Condolences to his family, friends and colleagues. Gabor was author of nine books, published in multiple languages. Since 2005 he has written a chess column in the Hungarian daily newspaper\u00a0N\u00e9pszabads\u00e1g\u00a0and from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-hungarian-grandmaster-gabor-kallai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}