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Spassky then played young female prodigy Judit Polgár in a 1993 match at Budapest, losing narrowly by 4½ – 5½.
He then started a series of resounding victories ( e. g. ), and finished the tournament with 9. 5 − 3. 5, along with future FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov, and ahead of Judit Polgár, Nigel Short, and many other world-class players.
Polgár and tied
In 1989, Polgár tied with Boris Gelfand for third in the OHRA Open in Amsterdam.
In 1992, Polgár tied for second behind Anatoly Karpov at the Madrid International in Linares.
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.
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 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 tied for fifth / sixth place, winning $ 5, 625 for the three-day tournament.
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.
In October 2006, Polgár scored another excellent result: tied for first place in the Essent Chess Tournament, Hoogeveen, Holland.
Polgár finished tied for third in the strong six-player tournament and handed tournament winner Veselin Topalov his only loss.
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.
* Beat Judit Polgár 3-1 in a rapid match at age 16 years old in Bastia, tied Anatoly Karpov in a rapid match 3-3 at 17 years old.
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Polgár has rarely played in women's-specific tournaments or divisions and has never competed for the Women's World Championship.
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 1993, Polgár became the first woman to ever qualify for a Men's Interzonal tournament.
In the summer of 1993, Bobby Fischer stayed for a time in the Polgár household.
Eight grandmasters, all considered contenders for the world championship: Karpov, Anand, Salov, Ivanchuk, Kamsky, Shirov, Ljubojevic and Polgár.
There was a three – way tie for first between Karpov, Topalov and Boris Gelfand and a three – way tie for fourth between Kramnik, Polgár and Lékó.
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.
In January 2000, Polgár had, for her, a disappointing result in a tournament in Pamplona, Spain, which was won by Nigel Short.
While the Hungarian team narrowly missed winning the Bronze medal, Polgár finished 10 / 13 for the second highest points total of any player in the Olympiad and a rated performance level of 2772.
The other five participants, Polgár, Karpov, Shirov, Grischuk and Lékó all finished with 4½ for second and last position.
In October and November 2002, Polgár alternated with Péter Lékó between first and second board for Hungary in the 35th Chess Olympiad.
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.
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 finished the 9 round tournament at 5 – 4 in a four-way tie for third to sixth place.
In November 2008, Polgár played the number 2 board for the Hungarian open (" men's ") team in the 38th Chess Olympiad in Dresden, finishing 3½ / 8.
Polgár and first
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.
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.
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.
The tournament marked the first time the 17-year-old Polgár was invited to compete with the world's strongest players.
) 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 August 1998, Polgár became the first woman to ever win the U. S. Open held at the Kona Surf Resort in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.
In the two years since Polgár became the first woman to ever break into the top 10, her rating had dropped.
Jan Timman lead early in the tournament, but Polgár staged a comeback scoring 3 points in the last 4 games to share first place.
Polgár finished clear first with 6½ – 2½, winning the $ 20, 000 first place prize money.
However, Polgár drew both her games with Kasparov, the first time in her career she had done this under tournament time controls.
In one of her games against Karpov, he blundered, allowing Polgár to utilize a famous, ancient sacrifice first employed by Emanuel Lasker against Bauer in 1889.
On April 2, 2011, Polgár finished in a four-way tie for first in the European Individual Chess Championship in Aix-les-Bains, France.
Polgár became the first woman ever to finish in the top three of the male championship.
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