Judit Polgar is a Hungarian chess grandmaster widely regarded as the strongest female chess player in history. She became the youngest grandmaster in the world at the time, male or female, at age fifteen, broke into the world's top ten overall players, and defeated numerous reigning and former world champions in competitive play across her career, all achieved while never competing in womens-only events by choice.
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Career HighlightYoungest player at the time to become a chess Grandmaster, at 15 years and 4 months, breaking Bobby Fischer's record; the highest-rated woman in chess history. 2 Classification
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1. Wikipedia: Judit Polgar
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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.
2. Wikipedia, Judit Polgar
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born 23 July 1976
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born 23 July 1976
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Hungarian chess grandmaster
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In 1991, she became the youngest player at the time to achieve the title of Grandmaster, at the age of 15 years and 4 months, breaking the 33-year-old record held by former world champion Bobby Fischer.
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