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Polgár prefers aggressive openings, playing 1. e4 as White and the Sicilian or King's Indian Defence with black, but she has also said her opening choices will also depend upon her trainer.
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Polgár and aggressive
While having a solid understanding of positional play, Polgár excels in tactics and is known for an aggressive playing style, striving to maximize the initiative and actively pursuing complications.
Jennifer Shahade, writer and two-time U. S. women's chess champion, suggested that the influence of Polgár as a role model may be one of the reasons women play more aggressive chess than men.
Polgár and playing
Although not released until 1996, in 1990 a documentary about children playing chess, Chess Kids, featuring Polgár was filmed.
) 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.
Polgár was playing an endgame of knight against knight and two connected passed pawns of Alexander Grischuk, but she was able to eliminate both pawns.
Comparing motherhood to playing chess, Polgár has said that a chess tournament now " feels like a vacation.
Polgár and 1
Polgár participated in the rapid chess tournament of the Presidential Chess Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan from April 29 to May 1, 2010.
A highlight for Polgár was her elimination of the tournament's No. 1 seed and world's fifth highest rated player, Sergey Karjakin.
Normal Variation ( B45 ) · 0 – 1 Polgár uses a novelty to break up Shirov's pawn front and even offers to sacrifice her queen.
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.
He followed this up with a one point victory (+ 4 = 5 − 1 ) at the M-Tel Masters 2005 tournament, ahead of Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, Ruslan Ponomariov, Michael Adams, and Judit Polgár.
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.
In October 2007, he won the Blindfold Chess World Cup in Bilbao by a 1. 5 point margin, defeating strong Grandmasters Veselin Topalov, Magnus Carlsen, Pendyala Harikrishna, Judit Polgár and Sergey Karjakin in the process.
Polgár and .
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Polgár and Sicilian
Kasparov with black chose the Berlin Defence instead of his usual Sicilian and Polgár proceeded with a line which Kasparov has used himself.
Polgár and King's
As a teenager, Polgár has been credited with contributing to the popularity of the opening variation King's Bishop's Gambit.
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Polgár was ranked number 36 in the world on the July 2012 FIDE rating list with an Elo rating of 2709, the woman on FIDE's Top 100 Players list, and has been ranked as high as eighth ( in 2005 ).
The overall high scorer was Polugaevsky, 57 years old with Polgár, 16, finishing second with 7½ – 4½.
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.
Susan Polgár met Bobby with her family and persuaded him to come out of hiding " in a cramped hotel room in a small Yugoslavian village ".
The tournament marked the first time the 17-year-old Polgár was invited to compete with the world's strongest players.
Polgár finished clear first with 6½ – 2½, winning the $ 20, 000 first place prize money.
The other five participants, Polgár, Karpov, Shirov, Grischuk and Lékó all finished with 4½ for second and last position.
However, Polgár drew both her games with Kasparov, the first time in her career she had done this under tournament time controls.
Polgár was able to attack with her rooks on Kasparov's king which was still in the centre of the board and when he was two pawns down, Kasparov resigned.
In October and November 2002, Polgár alternated with Péter Lékó between first and second board for Hungary in the 35th Chess Olympiad.
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.
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.
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 " was unrecognizable in her first-round encounter with Viswanathan Anand ", wrote GM Robert Byrne in his New York Times column, " making more errors than she normally would in a dozen games.
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.
Polgár finished in fourth place of the six players with three wins, four losses, and three draws.
In November 2008, Polgár had a terrible result in The World Chess Blitz Championship in Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan, finished last of the 16 players with only 2½ points.
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