Polgar, JuditAge 48


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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Active Years:
1987 - 2015
Total Games:
1926
Wins:
730 (38%)
Losses:
492 (25%)
Draws:
704 (37%)
Total score:
57%
Performance :
Performance for the last active 12 months:
2661
White:
B33 Sicilian Defense (33 games)
B90 Sicilian Defense (33 games)
C42 Russian Game (31 games)
Black:
E97 King's Indian Defense (33 games)
B22 Sicilian Defense (27 games)
B90 Sicilian Defense (26 games)

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:

  • 1st (twice) and =1st (twice) at Essent
  • 1st in London 1988,
  • 1st at Varna 1988
  • =1st 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
  • 1st 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)
  • 2nd 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 PlayerRatingBlack PlayerRatingResultMovesSiteDate 
1
Polgar, Judit
2675
Universites Paris
1-023Paris22 Mar 2015board
2
Polgar, Judit
2675
INSA
0-141Paris22 Mar 2015board
3
Polgar, Judit
2675
Paris 1
1/2-1/245Paris22 Mar 2015board
4
Polgar, Judit
2675
Ileri, Dauphine
1-056Paris22 Mar 2015board
5
Polgar, Judit
2675
ISEP
1-039Paris22 Mar 2015board
6
Polgar, Judit
2675
X-ENSTA
1-054Paris22 Mar 2015board
7
Polgar, Judit
2675
Sciences Po Bordeaux
1/2-1/260Paris22 Mar 2015board
8
Polgar, Judit
2675
Polytech Nantes
1/2-1/254Paris22 Mar 2015board
9
Shankland, Samuel L
2624
Polgar, Judit
26761-060Tromsoe10 Aug 2014board
10
Polgar, Judit
2676
Akopian, Vladimir Eduardovic
26551/2-1/240Tromsoe9 Aug 2014board
11
Polgar, Judit
2676
Nguyen, Huynh Minh Huy
25071-031Tromsoe8 Aug 2014board
12
Polgar, Judit
2676
Santos, Hugo Lima
22661-035Tromsoe5 Aug 2014board
13
Guerrero Vargas, Andres Jesus
2318
Polgar, Judit
26760-134Tromsoe3 Aug 2014board
14
Polgar, Judit
2676
Seddaoui, Yamine
21051-029Tromsoe2 Aug 2014board
15
Polgar, Judit
2685
Laznicka, Viktor
26791-027Dubai20 Jun 2014board
16
Malakhov, Vladimir
2694
Polgar, Judit
26851-035Dubai20 Jun 2014board
17
Aronian, Levon
2815
Polgar, Judit
26851-036Dubai20 Jun 2014board
18
Polgar, Judit
2685
Grischuk, Alexander
27921/2-1/249Dubai20 Jun 2014board
19
Le, Quang Liem
2712
Polgar, Judit
26851/2-1/270Dubai20 Jun 2014board
20
Polgar, Judit
2685
Anand, Viswanathan
27850-149Dubai20 Jun 2014board
21
Polgar, Judit
2685
Tomashevsky, Evgeny
26951-055Dubai20 Jun 2014board
22
Carlsen, Magnus
2881
Polgar, Judit
26851-039Dubai20 Jun 2014board
23
Polgar, Judit
2685
Meier, Georg
26321/2-1/244Dubai20 Jun 2014board
24
Polgar, Judit
2685
Caruana, Fabiano
27911-058Dubai20 Jun 2014board
25
Karjakin, Sergey
2771
Polgar, Judit
26850-158Dubai19 Jun 2014board
26
Polgar, Judit
2685
Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son
26211-046Dubai19 Jun 2014board
27
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar
2743
Polgar, Judit
26851-011Dubai19 Jun 2014board
28
Polgar, Judit
2685
Onischuk, Vladimir
25941-036Dubai19 Jun 2014board
29
Nakamura, Hikaru
2775
Polgar, Judit
26851-040Dubai19 Jun 2014board
30
Polgar, Judit
2685
Wojtaszek, Radoslaw
27151-068Dubai19 Jun 2014board
31
Morozevich, Alexander
2731
Polgar, Judit
26851/2-1/266Dubai19 Jun 2014board
32
Polgar, Judit
2685
Yu, Yangyi
26751-028Dubai19 Jun 2014board
33
Vachier Lagrave, Maxime
2762
Polgar, Judit
26851-048Dubai19 Jun 2014board
34
Polgar, Judit
2685
Taleb, Moussa
24061-038Dubai19 Jun 2014board
35
Ringoir, Tanguy
2506
Polgar, Judit
26850-141Dubai19 Jun 2014board
36
Polgar, Judit
2685
Kovalev, Vladislav
25541/2-1/295Dubai18 Jun 2014board
37
Michalik, Peter
2557
Polgar, Judit
26850-155Dubai18 Jun 2014board
38
Polgar, Judit
2685
Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan
25821/2-1/270Dubai18 Jun 2014board
39
Durarbayli, Vasif
2590
Polgar, Judit
26851/2-1/256Dubai18 Jun 2014board
40
Lu, Shanglei
2546
Polgar, Judit
26851-047Dubai18 Jun 2014board
41
Polgar, Judit
2685
Bacrot, Etienne
27200-157Dubai17 Jun 2014board
42
Potkin, Vladimir
2621
Polgar, Judit
26851/2-1/270Dubai17 Jun 2014board
43
Polgar, Judit
2685
Ragger, Markus
26321/2-1/268Dubai17 Jun 2014board
44
Polgar, Judit
2685
Wojtaszek, Radoslaw
27151/2-1/251Dubai17 Jun 2014board
45
Morozevich, Alexander
2731
Polgar, Judit
26851-026Dubai17 Jun 2014board
46
Polgar, Judit
2685
Karjakin, Sergey
27710-162Dubai16 Jun 2014board
47
Harikrishna, Pentala
2726
Polgar, Judit
26850-143Dubai16 Jun 2014board
48
Polgar, Judit
2685
Tomashevsky, Evgeny
26951/2-1/252Dubai16 Jun 2014board
49
Mamedov, Rauf
2659
Polgar, Judit
26850-152Dubai16 Jun 2014board
50
Duda, Jan Krzysztof
2587
Polgar, Judit
26850-186Budapest13 Jun 2014board