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Date of birth
23 Jul 1976
50 years ago at Budapest, Hungary

Judit Polgar

Judit Polgar is a Hungarian Grandmaster, and considered the best female chess player, with a maximum Elo of 2735. In 1991, at the age of 15 years and four months, she surpassed the record of the legendary Bobby Fischer, of being the youngest chess player to become Grandmaster. She has beaten super grandmaster chess players such as Magnus Carlsen, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Ruslan Ponomariov, Veselin Topalov, and many more.

Biography

She retired in 2014, breaking her streak of being the best female chess player for more than 26 years.

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