Profile details
- Born
- 23 Jul 1976
- Birthplace
- Budapest
- Country
- Hungary
- Sport
- Chess
- Discipline
- Mind
- Category
- Women
- Status
- Active
District, height, weight, playing style, coach, academy, national ranking and international ranking are not yet recorded for this athlete.
Honours & Awards
- ▸Chess Oscar
- ▸Commander with Star of the Order of Merit of Hungary
- ▸Hungarian Order of Saint Stephen
- ▸Knight's Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary
- ▸Honorary citizen of Budapest
Competition Appearances
10 recorded appearances, most significant first.
- ·Women's Chess Olympiad 1990
- ·Women's Chess Olympiad 1988
- ·31st Chess Olympiad
- ·32nd Chess Olympiad
- ·34th Chess Olympiad
- ·35th Chess Olympiad
- ·38th Chess Olympiad
- ·39th Chess Olympiad
Career Timeline
- 1988Competed at Women's Chess Olympiad 1988
- 1990Competed at Women's Chess Olympiad 1990
Statistics
About
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, 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.
Biography adapted from Judit Polgár on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.