Judit Polgár, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Judit Polgár

Hungarian chess player

Date of Birth: 23-Jul-1976

Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary

Profession: Esperantist, chess player

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Leo

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About Judit Polgár

  • Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster.
  • She is generally considered the strongest female chess player of all time.
  • Since September 2015, she has been inactive.
  • 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.
  • She was the youngest ever player to break into the FIDE Top 100 players rating list, ranking No.
  • 55 in the January 1989 rating list, at the age of 12.
  • She is the only woman to qualify for a World Championship tournament, having done so in 2005.
  • She is the first, and to date only, woman to have surpassed 2700 Elo, reaching a career peak rating of 2735 and peak world ranking of No.
  • 8, both achieved in 2005.
  • She was the No.
  • 1 rated woman in the world from January 1989 until the March 2015 rating list, when she was overtaken by Chinese player Hou Yifan; she was the No.
  • 1 again in the August 2015 women's rating list, in her last appearance in the FIDE World Rankings. 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.Polgár 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: Magnus Carlsen, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov, Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander Khalifman, and Rustam Kasimdzhanov.On 13 August 2014, she announced her retirement from competitive chess. In June 2015, Polgár was elected as the new captain and head coach of the Hungarian national men's team. On 20 August 2015, she received Hungary's highest decoration, the Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary.

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