[permalink] [id link]
Polgár made it to the third round of the knockout tournament until she was eliminated by tournament winner Boris Gelfand.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
Polgár and made
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.
In September 2005, Polgár once again made history as she became the first woman to play for a World Championship, at the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005.
Polgár made it to the final 8 players before she was eliminated by Peter Svidler.
However, as of September 2010 Polgár remained the only woman in the top 100 and still the only woman to have ever made the top 10.
The participation of Judit Polgár made her the first woman to compete for the world chess championship.
Polgár and third
In 1989, Polgár tied with Boris Gelfand for third in the OHRA Open in Amsterdam.
Anand and Karpov finished first, Ljubojevic third, while Polgár finished in clear fourth with 6½ points from 11 rounds ahead of other strong GMs such as Ivanchuk, Short, Korchnoi and her sister Susan.
In September 1995, Polgár finished third in a tournament in the Donner Memorial in Amsterdam, behind Jan Timman and Julio Granda Zuniga who tied for first.
In June 2003, Polgár finished tied for third with Boris Gelfand, in the Enghien-les-Bains International Tournament in France, scoring 5½ – 3½, behind Evgeny Bareev who won the tournament and GM Michael Adams.
Polgár finished the 9 round tournament at 5 – 4 in a four-way tie for third to sixth place.
Polgár finished tied for third in the strong six-player tournament and handed tournament winner Veselin Topalov his only loss.
The tournament, of 393 players of which 167 were Grandmasters, was won by Russian Vladimir Potkin on tie-break, GM Radosław Wojtaszek won the silver, while Polgár placed third, winning the bronze.
Polgár and round
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.
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.
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.
The first round matches of the four-player knockout tournament were won by Topalov over GM Judit Polgár ( Hungary ) 2½ – 1½ and Vallejo over GM Alexei Shirov ( Spain ) 3 – 1.
He won his first round match against Judit Polgár (+ 2-1 = 3 ), but was eliminated when he lost his second round match against Peter Leko (+ 0-2 = 3 ).
Polgár and tournament
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.
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.
Polgár then tied for first in the Hastings tournament held over New Years, 1992 – 93.
Immediately following the Hastings tournament, Polgár played an exhibition match in February against former World Champion, Boris Spassky.
Polgár also participated in the Melody Amber tournament in Monaco which featured a blindfold tournament of 12 grandmasters.
In 1993, Polgár became the first woman to ever qualify for a Men's Interzonal tournament.
Polgár won the double round-robin tournament of four GMs scoring five points in the six games and winning both her games against Short.
The tournament marked the first time the 17-year-old Polgár was invited to compete with the world's strongest players.
Although Polgár recovered by the end of the tournament, she went into a slump over the next six rounds, gaining only half a point.
In August 1996, Polgár participated in a very strong 10 – player tournament in Vienna.
Polgár finished in clear fifth position in the 12-GM tournament, ahead of Anand, Ivanchuk, Gelfand and Shirov.
Polgár handed co-winner Vishwanathan Anand his only loss of the tournament.
In October 1998, Polgár won the VAM four-grandmaster tournament in Hoogeveen, Netherlands by 1½ points over Jan Timman.
In November 1998, Polgár played in the Wydra Memorial Rapid chess tournament in Israel.
Anand won the tournament in a tie-break game over Polgár.
In October 1999, Polgár participated in the four-player GM section of the VAM Chess tournament in Hoogeveen, Netherlands.
Jan Timman lead early in the tournament, but Polgár staged a comeback scoring 3 points in the last 4 games to share first place.
In January 2000, Polgár had, for her, a disappointing result in a tournament in Pamplona, Spain, which was won by Nigel Short.
Polgár had another disappointing result later in the month in the category XVIII tournament in Corus Wijk aan Zee which was won by Kasparov.
However, Polgár drew both her games with Kasparov, the first time in her career she had done this under tournament time controls.
In June 2001, Polgár finished fourth in the European Championship in Ohrid, Macedonia, a 13-round Swiss-system tournament of 143 Grandmasters and 38 IMs.
In 2003, Polgár scored one of her best results: an undefeated clear second place in the Category 19 Corus chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, just a half-point behind future World Champion Viswanathan Anand, and a full point ahead of then-world champion Vladimir Kramnik.
Polgár and until
Although not released until 1996, in 1990 a documentary about children playing chess, Chess Kids, featuring Polgár was filmed.
Topalov had the advantage until Polgár executed a deep positional sacrifice.
0.120 seconds.