Polgár is the only woman to have won a game from a current world number one player, and has defeated nine current or former world champions in either rapid or classical chess: Anatoli Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov, Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander Khalifman, and Rustam Kasimdzhanov.

Going into the last round Polgár needed only a draw to achieve the GM title, but she won her game against GM Tibor Tolnai to win first place with six points in nine games.

Russian GM Evgeny Bareev, at the time ranked eighth in the world, led going into tournament's last round, but was crushed by Polgár in their individual game allowing her to share first.

In 1995, Nigel Short and Polgár were to play a game using the famous chess set, but British Museum refused.

In 1995, the Isle of Lewis chess club in Scotland attempted to arrange a game between Polgár and Nigel Short in which the famous Lewis chessmen would be used.

In 1998 Polgár defeated Anatoly Karpov in a match of " action " chess ( 30 minutes per game ).

In June 1998 in Budapest, Polgár played an eight game match of " action " chess, which is 30 minutes for the entire game, against Anatoly Karpov.

Anand won the tournament in a tie-break game over Polgár.

Going into the last round four players, Polgár, Khalifman, Karpov and Gilberto Milos were tied, but Polgár won her game over Braziliam GM Milos while Khalifman and Karpov played against each other in a draw.

In September 2002, in the Russia versus the Rest of the World Match, Polgár finally defeated Garry Kasparov in a game.

Always the crowd-pleaser, Polgár roused the hall in her fourth round game against Azerbaijan's Shakhriyar Mamedyarov with a brilliant 12. Nxf7 drawing his king into the center of the board.

Polgár admitted to " enjoying herself " by the end of the game.

" However, in her game against Veselin Topalov, Polgár pushed the eventual tournament winner and world champion to a seven-hour marathon before succumbing.

Polgár tied with Boris Gelfand with 9½ points and won her individual game against Viswanathan Anand, at the time the world's No. 2 player.

For the first time in twenty years since she lost to her sister Susan, Polgár lost her first classical game to a female player as Women's World champion Hou Yifan won their individual game and tied for first before losing the playoff to Nigel Short.

l ' Hermet Variation ( C67 ) · 1 – 0 Polgár makes history when, for the first time ever, a woman defeats the world's No. 1 chess player in a game.

* September 9 – Judit Polgár beats Garry Kasparov at a game of speed chess.

The tournament, which was now considered by some as the most important in Europe, was won by fellow Hungarian Péter Lékó while Polgár scored 7 / 13 to tie for fourth with Alexander Grischuk, Michael Adams and Kramnik.

) Polgár said she did not challenge this, explaining afterwards, " I was playing the World Champion and didn't want to cause unpleasantness during my first invitation to such an important event.

In 1993, Polgár defeated former World Champion Boris Spassky ( pictured here in 1984 ) in an exhibition match winning the largest prize money up to that point of her career of $ 110, 000.

In the summer of 1994, Polgár had the greatest success of her career to that point, when she won the Madrid International in Spain.

However, Polgár drew both her games with Kasparov, the first time in her career she had done this under tournament time controls.

Judit Polgár ( born July 23, 1976 ) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster.

In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, the youngest person ever to do so at that time.

Polgár was born on July 23, 1976, in Budapest, to a Hungarian Jewish family.

Polgár and her two older sisters, Grandmaster Susan and International Master Sofia, were part of an educational experiment carried out by their father László Polgár, in an attempt to prove that children could make exceptional achievements if trained in a specialist subject from a very early age.

Susan Polgár, when she was a 15-year-old International Master, said in 1985 that it was due to this conflict that she had not been awarded the Grandmaster title despite having made the norm eleven times.

Polgár has rarely played in women's-specific tournaments or divisions and has never competed for the Women's World Championship.

While László Polgár has been credited with being an excellent chess coach, the Polgárs had also employed professional chessplayers to train their daughters, including Hungarian champion IM Tibor Florian, Hungarian GM Pal Benko and Russian GM Alexander Chernin.

Susan Polgár, the eldest of the sisters, 5½ years older than Sophia and 7 years older than Judit, was the first of the sisters to achieve prominence in chess by winning tournaments and by 1986 she was the world's top-rated female chess player.

Trained in her early years by her sister Susan, who ultimately became Women's World Champion, Judit Polgár was a prodigy from an early age.

" Polgár described herself at that age as " obsessive " about chess.

All three Polgár sisters competed.

Also in 1988, Polgár won the under-12 " Boys " section of the World Youth Chess and Peace Festival in Timişoara, Romania.

In October 1988, Polgár finished first in a 10-player round-robin tournament in London, scoring 7 – 2, for a half point lead over Israeli GM Yair Kraidman.

Polgár was 12.

It was during this time that former World Champion Mikhail Tal said Polgár had the potential to win the men's World Championship.

In 1989, Polgár tied with Boris Gelfand for third in the OHRA Open in Amsterdam.

By now numerous books and articles had been written about the Polgár sisters making them famous even outside of the world of chess.

Although not released until 1996, in 1990 a documentary about children playing chess, Chess Kids, featuring Polgár was filmed.

The documentary did not include an interview with Polgár as her father required payment.

In December 1991, Polgár qualified as a Grandmaster by winning the Hungarian National Championship, at the time the youngest ever at 15 years, 5 months to have achieved the title.

In 1992, Polgár tied for second behind Anatoly Karpov at the Madrid International in Linares.

In September 1992, Polgár participated in a tournament held in Aruba in which a team of senior men's players competed against a team of top women players.