Polgar, Judit Age 47

Source: budapesttelegraph.com

FIDE Rating

2675

World Women Rank

#1 (all players)

Hungary Women Rank

#1 (all players)

FIDE Peak Rating

2735 - Jul 2005 (Age 28)

FIDE Peak Women Rank

#1 (2555) - Jan 1989 (Age 12)

Rapid Women

2646 World #1 (all players), Peak 2669 (Aug 2013)

Blitz Women

2736 World #1 (all players), Peak 2736 (Jul 2014)

Born

23 Jul 1976
Budapest, Hungarian People's Republic

FIDE ID 700070

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Judit Polgar is the most powerful female chess player ever. She was the top rated female player in the world for over continuous 26 years from 1989 until August 2015, when she became inactive after her retirement in August 2014. She reached a peak rating of 2735 and a peak ranking of #8, both in 2005.

After winning the U12 and U14 Boys World Championships in 1988 and 1990 respectively, she became a Grandmaster by winning the "men's" Hungarian championship in 1991 at the age of fifteen years and five months, at the time the youngest grandmaster in history, breaking Fischer’s record set in 1958.

Polgar is the only female to have contested the World Championship for all players when she participated in the FIDE World Championship Tournament (2005). She also played in the 2007 Candidates Tournament.

Polgar's notable tournament performances include:

• 1^st (twice) and =1st (twice) at Essent
• 1st in London 1988,
• 1^st at Varna 1988
• =1^st at Hastings 1992/93
• 1st at Madrid in 1994
• 1st at the Isle of Lewis 1995
• =1st in the 1998 US Open
• =1st at Hoogeveen in 1998
• 1^st at the Japfa Classic in Bali in 2000
• 1st at the the Sigeman & Company International Tournament in Malmo
• =1st at the Najdorf Chess Festival 2000
• 4th in the 2001 European Championship
• 1st at the Superstars Hotel Bali (2002)
• 2^nd at Corus Group A (2003) and
• =1st first at the European Championship (2011), which qualified her for participation in the World Cup 2011, where she made it to the quarter final but losing to the eventual winner of that event, Peter Svidler

Polgar represented Hungary at the (open/men’s) Olympiads in 1994, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014, winning two team silver medals and an individual bronze medal during this era. At the European Team Championships 1999, she won a team silver medal (playing for Hungary), and an individual silver medal for her result on board 2.

In rapids, amongst many other results, she beat such luminaries as David Navara 6-2 in a rapid match in the Czech Republic in 2010, and later in 2010 she beat Vassily Ivanchuk 2.5-1.5 and Veselin Topalov 3.5-0.5 to win the rapid Ajedrez UNAM Quadrangular (2010). In blitz, her rating reached 2736 (world #30 & women's world #1).

Polgar first entered the top 100 at #55 in January 1989 at the age of 12 when her rating reached 2555. She is still the youngest player to have entered the top 100.

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Games

#	White Player	Rating	Black Player	Rating	Result	Moves	Site	Date
51	Polgar, Judit	2685	Bartel, Mateusz	2641	0-1	35	Budapest	12 Jun 2014
52	Swiercz, Dariusz	2613	Polgar, Judit	2685	1-0	24	Budapest	11 Jun 2014
53	Polgar, Judit	2685	Socko, Bartosz	2622	1/2-1/2	56	Budapest	10 Jun 2014
54	Polgar, Judit	2685	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	2715	1/2-1/2	86	Budapest	9 Jun 2014
55	Gajewski, Grzegorz	2650	Polgar, Judit	2685	1/2-1/2	59	Budapest	8 Jun 2014
56	Polgar, Judit	2693	Yilmaz, Mustafa	2557	1-0	33	Yerevan	14 Mar 2014
57	Ter Sahakyan, Samvel	2572	Polgar, Judit	2693	1-0	52	Yerevan	13 Mar 2014
58	Polgar, Judit	2693	Grigoriants, Sergey	2574	0-1	36	Yerevan	12 Mar 2014
59	Dvirnyy, Danyyil	2575	Polgar, Judit	2693	0-1	50	Yerevan	11 Mar 2014
60	Polgar, Judit	2693	Hovhannisyan, Robert	2611	1/2-1/2	41	Yerevan	10 Mar 2014
61	Schlosser, Philipp	2612	Polgar, Judit	2693	1/2-1/2	60	Yerevan	8 Mar 2014
62	Polgar, Judit	2693	Pashikian, Arman	2612	1/2-1/2	48	Yerevan	7 Mar 2014
63	Tregubov, Pavel V	2614	Polgar, Judit	2693	1/2-1/2	59	Yerevan	6 Mar 2014
64	Polgar, Judit	2693	Jianu, Vlad Cristian	2574	1-0	46	Yerevan	5 Mar 2014
65	Gabrielian, Artur	2560	Polgar, Judit	2693	1/2-1/2	71	Yerevan	4 Mar 2014
66	Polgar, Judit	2693	Goryachkina, Aleksandra	2424	1-0	48	Yerevan	3 Mar 2014
67	Nakamura, Hikaru	2786	Polgar, Judit	2693	1/2-1/2	52	London	13 Dec 2013
68	Polgar, Judit	2693	Jones, Gawain C B	2654	0-1	43	London	13 Dec 2013
69	Polgar, Judit	2693	Gelfand, Boris	2777	1/2-1/2	44	London	12 Dec 2013
70	Jones, Gawain C B	2654	Polgar, Judit	2693	0-1	67	London	12 Dec 2013
71	Polgar, Judit	2693	Nakamura, Hikaru	2786	0-1	56	London	11 Dec 2013
72	Gelfand, Boris	2777	Polgar, Judit	2693	1-0	50	London	11 Dec 2013
73	Polgar, Judit	2689	Kovalev, Vladislav	2583	1-0	52	Warsaw	17 Nov 2013
74	Polgar, Judit	2689	Howell, David	2644	1/2-1/2	65	Warsaw	16 Nov 2013
75	Polgar, Judit	2689	Georgiadis, Nico	2423	1/2-1/2	44	Warsaw	15 Nov 2013
76	Akopian, Vladimir Eduardovic	2681	Polgar, Judit	2689	1/2-1/2	45	Warsaw	14 Nov 2013
77	Tkachiev, Vladislav	2637	Polgar, Judit	2689	1/2-1/2	41	Warsaw	12 Nov 2013
78	Vazquez Igarza, Renier	2588	Polgar, Judit	2689	1/2-1/2	42	Warsaw	10 Nov 2013
79	Polgar, Judit	2689	Pantsulaia, Levan	2595	1-0	89	Warsaw	9 Nov 2013
80	Polgar, Judit	2689	Rasmussen, Allan Stig	2486	1-0	40	Warsaw	8 Nov 2013
81	Polgar, Judit	2696	Ortiz Suarez, Isan Reynaldo	2609	1/2-1/2	87	Tromsoe	12 Aug 2013
82	Ortiz Suarez, Isan Reynaldo	2609	Polgar, Judit	2696	1-0	65	Tromsoe	11 Aug 2013
83	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	2753	Polgar, Judit	2696	1-0	53	Geneve	28 Jun 2013
84	Polgar, Judit	2696	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	2753	1-0	58	Geneve	28 Jun 2013
85	Polgar, Judit	2696	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	2753	1-0	55	Geneve	28 Jun 2013
86	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	2753	Polgar, Judit	2696	1-0	67	Geneve	28 Jun 2013
87	Kramnik, Vladimir	2803	Polgar, Judit	2696	1-0	57	Geneve	27 Jun 2013
88	Polgar, Judit	2696	Kramnik, Vladimir	2803	1/2-1/2	60	Geneve	27 Jun 2013
89	Polgar, Judit	2696	Pelletier, Yannick	2574	0-1	33	Geneve	26 Jun 2013
90	Pelletier, Yannick	2574	Polgar, Judit	2696	1-0	54	Geneve	26 Jun 2013
91	Polgar, Sofia	2450	Polgar, Judit	2696	0-1	34	Porto Vecchio	14 May 2013
92	Polgar, Sofia	2450	Polgar, Judit	2696	1-0	46	Porto Vecchio	14 May 2013
93	Polgar, Judit	2696	Polgar, Sofia	2450	1-0	36	Porto Vecchio	13 May 2013
94	Polgar, Judit	2705	Aronian, Levon	2815	1/2-1/2	34	London	10 Dec 2012
95	McShane, Luke J	2713	Polgar, Judit	2705	0-1	33	London	9 Dec 2012
96	Polgar, Judit	2705	Anand, Viswanathan	2775	1/2-1/2	32	London	8 Dec 2012
97	Carlsen, Magnus	2848	Polgar, Judit	2705	1-0	53	London	7 Dec 2012
98	Polgar, Judit	2705	Nakamura, Hikaru	2760	0-1	47	London	6 Dec 2012
99	Adams, Michael	2710	Polgar, Judit	2705	1-0	36	London	3 Dec 2012
100	Polgar, Judit	2705	Jones, Gawain C B	2644	1/2-1/2	73	London	2 Dec 2012