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Judit Polgár

1976 - Today

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Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) 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 (and one of only three to make the top 100), the only woman to achieve a rating of over 2700, 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. Polgár was a chess prodigy, and at the age of 12 became the youngest player to break into the FIDE top 100 rating list, ranked at 55 in the January 1989 rating list. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Judit Polgár is the 25th most popular chess player (down from 22nd in 2019), the 119th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 120th in 2019) and the most popular Hungarian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Judit Polgár ranks 25 out of 461. Before her are Paul Keres, Nona Gaprindashvili, Viktor Korchnoi, Ruy López de Segura, Samuel Reshevsky, and Siegbert Tarrasch. After her are Vera Menchik, Akiba Rubinstein, Johannes Zukertort, Luis Ramírez de Lucena, Mikhail Chigorin, and Richard Réti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1976, Judit Polgár ranks 11. Before her are Andriy Shevchenko, Alexei Navalny, Abiy Ahmed, Simone Inzaghi, Chester Bennington, and Cillian Murphy. After her are Clarence Seedorf, Ramzan Kadyrov, Michael Ballack, Guti, Patrick Vieira, and Mark Webber.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Judit Polgár ranks 119 out of 1,077. Before her are Emma Orczy (1865), Cornel Wilde (1912), Zoltán of Hungary (896), Margaret Mahler (1897), Pál Schmitt (1942), and József Bozsik (1925). After her are István Szabó (1938), Mihály Károlyi (1875), János Áder (1959), Aurel Stein (1862), Miklós Rózsa (1907), and István Tisza (1861).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Hungary

Among chess players born in Hungary, Judit Polgár ranks 1. After her are Susan Polgár (1969), László Szabó (1917), Lajos Portisch (1937), Géza Maróczy (1870), Isidor Gunsberg (1854), István Csom (1940), András Adorján (1950), Győző Forintos (1935), Sofia Polgár (1974), Gedeon Barcza (1911), and István Bilek (1932).

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