Judit Polgár - Wikipedia
WEBTrained in her early years by her sister Susan, who ultimately became Women's World Champion, Judit Polgár was a chess prodigy from an early age. At age 5, she defeated a family friend without looking at the board. After the game, the friend joked: "You are good at chess, but I'm a good cook."
Judit Polgar | Biography &Ranking | Britannica
WEBApr 25, 2024 · Judit Polgár (born July 23, 1976, Budapest, Hungary.) Hungarian chess player, the youngest of three chess-playing sisters ( see also Susan Polgar ).
Bio - Judit Polgar
WEBFor decades, my biography consisted almost entirely of my achievements in chess. At the age of 9, I won my first international tournament in New York. This became a cover story in The New York Times. I was 11 when I defeated a …
Chess Grandmastery: Nature, Gender, and the Genius of Judit Polgár
WEBOct 22, 2014 · This summer Judit Polgár announced her retirement, ceding the title of No. 1 female player to Hou Yifan, who became a grandmaster at 14. For the first time a woman has just won the Fields medal in mathematics; for the first time a woman reigns as the world’s most powerful economist.
The Jewish Queen’s Gambit: the Story of Judit Polgár
WEBNov 26, 2020 · The story of Polgár and her sisters has captured the imagination of many fans worldwide since the 1980s. Brought up from a young age to become a chess champion, in controversial educational methods invented and used by her father, this prodigy girl proved all theories about genius – though she refuses to be defined as a …
Judit Polgar - Bio & Stats | Top Chess Players - Chess.com
WEBEarly in 2002, Polgar won an international event in Benidorm, Spain. She tied current FIDE World Champion Ruslan Ponomariov and then beat him in tiebreaks, winning the final blitz game in spectacular fashion.
Judit Polgar Interview: 'I Had To Prove Myself More Than A Boy'
WEBNov 5, 2019 · Judit Polgar, the strongest female chess player of all time, speaks to David Cox about growing up as part of her father Laszlo's groundbreaking educational experiment, the famous touch-move controversy when she played Garry Kasparov in 1994 and why no other woman in chess history has come close to her achievements.
Judit Polgár - Wikiwand
WEBJudit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster, widely regarded as the strongest female chess player of all time. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, at the time the youngest to have done so, breaking the record previously held by former world champion Bobby Fischer.
Judit Polgar - The Legendary Hungarian Woman Grandmaster
WEBBiography. Born to Hungarian-Jewish parents, Judit Polgar is one of the best Hungarian Chess players and is one of the best female Chess players of all time. Children of Hungarian and Jewish parents have commonly been exposed to chess at an early young age, Judit was no different.
Judit Polgar: 'Everything was about chess' - The Guardian
WEBNov 12, 2012 · She took on all-comers from an early age, became the then youngest ever grandmaster (male or female) at the age of 15, and didn't bother competing for the women's world championship because she...
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