Judit Polgar
Judit Polgar · Sports
Chess grandmaster, strongest female player in history
1976, Budapest, Hungary
Hungary
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Polgár is the strongest female chess player in history: a grandmaster at 15 (1991), she was the only woman ever to reach the world's top ten and defeated many world champions in classical play. She was raised in a Hungarian Jewish family, part of her father László Polgár's famous educational experiment with his three daughters.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chess
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Chess grandmaster, strongest female player in history
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chess
