Judit Polgár

Judit Polgár [ judit Polga ː r] ( born July 23, 1976 in Budapest) is a Hungarian chess player.

Life

It was very early encouraged by their father László Polgár and trained schachlich. 1988 and 1990 she won, each as a single girl in the field of participants, the Junior World Championship in the U12 and U14 age groups. In early 1992, awarded her the title of FIDE Grand Master of men. The last to required standard they had reached the age of 15 years and 4 months. So you improved the record of Bobby Fischer by one month.

Judit Polgár won with her ​​sisters and Ildikó Mádl twice team gold at the Chess Olympiad of women -. Thessaloniki in 1988 and 1990 in Novi Sad In the individual competition, they also received two gold medals. Besides participating in the Chess Olympiads of the women she has played only once in another women's tournament: the age of ten, she won the bronze medal at the U- 16 girls World Cup in 1986 in Rio Gallegos.

Unlike their sisters Zsuzsa and Zsófia since it takes no longer to Mrs. tournaments, but plays - the first woman ever - in fact exclusively against men.

In 1994 she was first invited to the world-class Tournament of Linares. Since the Chess Olympiad in Moscow in 1994 she was a member of the Hungarian national team of six men at Chess Olympiads. 2002 in Bled, she won with her team a silver and a bronze medal in the individual competition. In the Hungarian Team Championships she plays for Aquaprofit Nagykanizsai Tungsram Sakk Club Budapest.

Back in 1993, she beat former World Champion Anatoly Karpov in a rapid game, 2002, she succeeded in doing so for the first time against Garry Kasparov. The world-class player Nigel Short, who has already lost several times against them, said of Polgár, "She's a killer, and the smelling Matt already 20 moves ahead ."

In the FIDE World Chess Championship 1999 in Las Vegas she got to the quarter finals and lost there to eventual winners Alexander Khalifman. In 2001, she came at the European Championship in Ohrid on the shared third place, but different at the World Championships in Moscow in the second round against Vadim Milov from.

After a maternity leave she took in 2005 at the eight-strong final tournament of the FIDE World Championship in San Luis part. As the first woman in history they played with it directly in a competition for the world chess champion title of FIDE. She won with 4.5 of 14 points the last place, but she managed a victory over the reigning champion Rustam Kasimjanov.

In October 2006, she was the Grand Master Tournament in Hoogeveen with 4.5 points from 6 games on the shared first place with Şəhriyar Məmmədyarov, and let this vice world champion Veselin Topalov, whom she defeated in two games behind.

At the Candidates tournament in 2007 they failed in the first round with 2.5-3.5 Yevgeny Bareev.

In early 2003 exceeded their Elo rating for the first time 2700 player mark, from which one is considered super grandmasters.

Judit Polgár won in November 2010 the rapid chess tournament Ajedrez UNAM Quadrangular 2010 Final in Mexico City. After the first game she struck Vasyl Ivanchuk lost 2.5:1.5 and in the final she defeated Veselin Topalov superior 3,5:0.5.

In April 2011, Judit Polgar won the first woman in the history of chess a medal at an official Open Championship. She won at the Chess Championship in Aix -les- Bains the bronze medal and reached there as the Russian European champion Vladimir Potkin 8.5 points from 11 games. Currently ( February 2013 ) is their Elo rating of 2696, so that it is ranked 55 of the general FIDE world ranking and leads with over 100 points ahead of the women.

She is married to the vet Gusztáv font and has two children.

Game example

The position of White seems impregnable, but Polgár wins by a beautiful combination. The white bishop on e4 is attacked twice, but neither of the two black towers can take him: The Tower e8 not because of Matt's by DF8 and the tower g4 not because the black queen could then be beaten by farmers g3. Polgár took the runner with the lady.

1 ... Tg4xg3 ! 2 f2xg3 Dh4xe4

Polgár has indeed given the quality, but Black now controls the white squares on the kingside and the white king is thus relatively defenseless. The position is lost for Sokolov. 3 Td1 -d2 -f3 De4 4 K g1 - h2 - h5 Df3 Of time. 5 Kh2 - g1 -f3 DH5 6 K g1 - h2 Bc8 - f5 After the LE4 Matt network is closely linked. 7 e3 -e4 Lf5xe4 8 Te1xe4 Df3xe4 d4 -d5 9 Sa5 c4

Sokolov gave up.

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