Judit Polgár
Hungarian chess player · Hungary · Chess Players · Born 1976 · age 50
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Judit, Zsuzsa, Zsófia and László Polgár, 1989
Judit (left) with sister Sofia at Thessaloniki, 1988
In 1993, Polgár defeated former world champion Boris Spassky (pictured here in 1984) in an exhibition match.
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In 1998 Polgár defeated Anatoly Karpov in a match of "action" chess (30 minutes per game). At the time Karpov was FIDE World Champion.
Polgár at the 2008 Mainz Chess ClassicAwards
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Judit Polgár is a Hungarian chess grandmaster, widely regarded as the strongest female chess player of all time. She is the only woman to be ranked in the world top 10, the only woman to achieve a rating over 2700, reaching a peak rating of 2735, and the only woman to compete in the final stage of a World Chess Championship. She was the top-rated woman in the world from January 1989 until her retirement from competitive chess in 2014, remaining No. 1 until the March 2015 rating list, a record of 26 consecutive years as woman's No. 1. Through this she never competed for the women's world championship, just in tournaments and matches.
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