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Judit Polgár
Hungarian chess player / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She is by far the strongest female chess player in history,[1]p312 yet she has never played in the Women's World Chess Championship.[2] In 1991 she got the title of Grandmaster (GM) at 15 years, 4 months. She was, at that time, the youngest person to do so. Polgár is now ranked number 51 in the world,[3] the only woman on FIDE's Top 100 Players list; she has been ranked as high as eighth.
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Full name | Polgár Judit |
Country | Hungary |
Born | (1976-07-23) 23 July 1976 (age 47) Budapest, Hungary |
Title | Grandmaster (1991) |
FIDE rating | 2675 (January 2024) [inactive since September 2015] |
Peak rating | 2735 (No. 8 player and No. 1 woman in the July 2005 FIDE World Rankings) |
Peak ranking | No. 8 (July 2005) |
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