Judit Polgár
Judit Polgár is a Hungarian chess player. She was the youngest ever player to break into the FIDE top 100 players rating list, at the age of 12. She is the only woman to have won a game against a reigning world number one player, and has defeated eleven current or former world champions in either rapid or classical chess.
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Judit Polgár is a Hungarian chess player. She was the youngest ever player to break into the FIDE top 100 players rating list, at the age of 12. She is the only woman to have won a game against a reigning world number one player, and has defeated eleven current or former world champions in either rapid or classical chess. She retired from competitive chess on 13 August 2014. In June 2015, she was elected as the new captain and head coach of the Hungarian national men’s team. She received Hungary’s highest decoration, the Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary, on 20 August 2015. She has been credited with being an excellent chess coach, including helping her daughters train their own chess players. In 1985, when she was a 15-year-old International Master, Susan said that it was due to this that she had been awarded the Grandmaster title despite having made the norm eleven times. She rarely plays in women-specific tournaments and has rarely played in women’s World Championship or Women’s Women Women’s Championship divisions. Her father, László, was against the idea that his daughters had to participate in female-only events. He taught his three daughters at home, with chess as a specialist subject, in an attempt to prove that children could make exceptional achievements if trained in a specialistsubject from a very early age. Lászlo taught his daughters the international language Esperanto. They received resistance from Hungarian authorities as home-schooling was not a ‘socialist’ approach.
They also received criticism at the time from some western commentators for depriving the sisters of a normal childhood. The siblings are the eldest of the eldest sisters, 5½ years older than the older sister, Sophia, who is 7 years younger than Judit, and the youngest of the older sisters, Susan, 7½ years years older. They are the first and to date only, women to have surpassed 2700 Elo reaching a career peak rating of 2735 and peak world ranking of No. 8, both achieved in 2005. She has won or shared first in the chess tournaments of Hastings 1993, Madrid 1994, León 1996, U.S. Open 1998, Hoogeveen 1999, Sigeman & Co 2000, Japfa 2000 and the Najdorf Memorial 2000. She also won the U. S. Open in 1998 and the León Open in 2000. In 2005, she became the first woman to play for a small-scale World Chess Championship, playing in an 8-player invitational tournament for the world championship. This put her in conflict with the Hungarian Chess Federation of the day, whose policy was for women to play in men’s tournaments. She never competed for the World Championship and has not been a Women’s World Champion and has never played in Women’s or Women Women Women Championship tournaments. In 2011, she said: ‘I always say that women should have the self-confidence that they are as good as male players, but only if they are willing to take it seriously as much as men.’
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