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| Mar-02-10 | | Travis Bickle: <TheFocus> If you seen Sofi's other attributes you wouldnt even notice her
smile! ; P |
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Mar-02-10
 | | chancho: <MaxxLange: the oldest Polgar sister> Nope. Zsuzsa was born in 1969. |
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| Mar-02-10 | | Caissanist: <interesting that Judit, the youngest, became the strongest player, reaching the top ten rated list in the '90s> It turns out that, when two or more siblings play chess well enough to gain international title, it's the youngest that turns out to be the strongest about 80% of the time. We have a running list of chess siblings on the Ton Timman page. |
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| Mar-08-10 | | MaxxLange: <chancho> informed! thanks |
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| Jul-10-10 | | Astardis: She's again listed as an active player in the 2010 rating list. Apparently she played 5 rated games in the Israeli National league. She even played (and beat)Mikhail Botvinnik :) |
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Jul-10-10
 | | HeMateMe: great photo, pleasing to look at. |
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| Jul-22-10 | | yusevich: Anyway, it's a pity that Sofia is not playing anymore! |
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| Jul-22-10 | | Jim Bartle: I hear she just didn't like playing under the Sofia rules. |
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Oct-25-10
| | HeMateMe: Sofia played in the recent massive Simul in Tel Aviv, where an Israeli GM played 523 opponents, breaking the record. She and Natan Sharansky played a separate, smaller simul. Nice photo of her over on chessbase; she really resembles Susan Polgar, in that photo. |
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| Jan-15-11 | | Caissanist: I don't think that Sofia made the wrong choice when she walked away from competitive chess, and the problems her older sister has been through are the perfect illustration of why. Throughout chess history there have been far more people who wanted to make a living at the game then there have been livings to be made; this leads to incredibly intense struggle and backbiting among the people who are trying to do it. It reminds me of Henry Kissinger's classic comment about academia: "the infighting is so vicious precisely because the stakes are so low". Sofia obviously decided about ten years ago that there wasn't any point in trying to get any better at the game, or in keeping up with the latest opening theory; she would still play for fun, but would look for other ways to spend most of her time. She's probably made more money from her art than she would have would have from chess, and certainly has made more friends; her decision to subordinate her interests to those of her husband and children has also given her a more rewarding family life, and more creature comforts than would have been the case otherwise. I'd bet that Susan wonders sometimes if she would have done better marrying a nice dentist in Scarsdale, and only playing chess when it fit in around life's other demands and interests. Although she doesn't say so publicly, I think her younger sister has basically made the same decision; she still plays chess, but no longer has serious chess "ambitions". Nobody wants to believe that her husband's veterinary practice is more important than Judit's being a world class chess player, but it is. |
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| Mar-08-11 | | BLarsen1967: The Gospel according to Saint Zsofia,here's one more game (not in the db) [Event "ISR-chT"]
[Site "Israel"]
[Date "2003.??.??"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Shevelev, Arkady"]
[Black "Polgar, Sofia"]
[Result "0-1"]
[BlackElo "2462"]
[ECO "C46"]
[Opening "Three Knights"]
[WhiteElo "2345"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. c3 d3 5. Bxd3 d6 6. O-O g6 7. Nd4 Nxd4 8.
cxd4 Bg7 9. Nc3 Ne7 10. d5 O-O 11. Be3 f5 12. Qd2 fxe4 13. Nxe4 Nf5 14. Bg5
Qd7 15. Ng3 Qf7 16. Rae1 Qxd5 17. Rc1 Kh8 18. Rxc7 Nxg3 19. hxg3 Rf7 20.
Re1 Bh3 21. gxh3 Rxc7 22. Rd1 Qxa2 23. Bb1 Qxb2 24. Qxd6 Qe5 25. Qd2 Qc3
26. Qd6 a5 27. h4 Qc6 28. Qd3 Qc3 29. Qd6 Rf8 30. Be3 a4 31. h5 Rc6 32. Qd5
Qb3 33. h6 Bf6 34. Qd7 Qf7 35. Qd2 a3 36. Ba2 Qe7 37. Qa5 Rc2 38. Bb3 Rc3
39. Qb6 Be5 40. Bd4 Rc6 41. Qxb7 Rc7 42. Qd5 Bf6 43. Kg2 Rcc8 44. Qg5 Qe4+
45. f3 Qxd4 46. Qb5 Qb2+ 47. Kh3 Rb8 48. Qc6 Qxb3 49. Rd7 Qb1 50. Rd5 a2
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| Sep-20-11 | | brankat: <MaxxLange> <the oldest Polgar sister..> Actually, Susan Polgar is 5 years older. |
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| Nov-02-11 | | Llawdogg: Happy Birthday! |
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| Nov-02-11 | | waustad: OK, that explains it. I was looking for the "sac of Rome" among highest performance ratings with no success, but I seem to have ignored the word "open" in the claim. |
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Feb-02-12
 | | LIFE Master AJ: http://www.sofiapolgar.com/Rome.aspx |
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| Jun-11-13 | | leka: Zsofia Polgar played at age 14 years 2 months old in Rome Open in 1989.Zsofia scored 6.5/7 92.85% rating score 2986.No one at age 14 years have that kind of result ever.The highest rating scores ever are 1.Aleksander Alekhine in San Remo in 1930 14/15 93.33% rating score 3042 2.Aron Nimzowitsch in Dresden in 1926 8.5/9 94.44% rating 3034 3.Anatoly Karpov in Linares in 1994 11/13 84,61% rating 3017.Jeff Sonas the founder of chessmetrics claims Karpov the highest ever 2899 rating score in Linares.Jeff Sonas the honor student from the tough university Stanford do not know the basic of the Gauss bell curve statistics.Why Sonas gives 114-118 points too low ratings in the tournament chess.Karpov his opponents rating were 2729 and Karpov score was 84.61% that gives 288.45 points easy calculation 2729+288.45 is 3017.Judith Polgar the best women chess player her highest is 2896 rating score.The people should know the Rome open in 1989.Sofia Polgar beat Suba Razuajev Chernin the only one who got a draw against Sofia Polgar Sergey Dolmatov.Was Zsofia even more talented than Judith Polgar who has the highest rating for woman 2746 chessmetrics number.Chess metrics give Bobby Fischer 2895 and Kaparov 2886 |
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| Nov-02-13 | | Llawdogg: Still only 39! |
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Nov-02-13
 | | Penguincw: Happy 39th birthday to WGM Zsofia Polgar. |
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| Nov-02-14 | | bubuli55: Happy Birthday! |
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Mar-15-15
 | | offramp: <leka: Zsofia Polgar played at age 14 years 2 months old in Rome Open in 1989.Zsofia scored 6.5/7 92.85% rating score 2986.No one at age 14 years have that kind of result ever.> Sofia the First. |
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| Nov-02-16 | | cro777: Happy Birthday!
http://www.chessdom.com/wp-content/... "Like her sisters, Sofia enjoyed fantastic results and at one stage looked like being the most successful of the three. Here are some of her achievements: Team and individual gold medals at the Olympiad. 1986 World Junior Rapid Champion.
Beat a string of GMs to record the best Open tournament performance of all-time with 8.5/9 and a performance rating over 2900 – aged just 14!" http://www.sofiapolgar.com/Images/R... (iChess.NET) Famously beat Korchnoi causing the Russian to angrily declare it would be 'the first and last time you ever beat me!' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txe...
Now married to GM Yona Kosashvili, Sofia teaches chess and is a successful artist: http://www.sofiapolgar.com/ArtGalle... |
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| May-02-19 | | dkappe1: With the recent advances in computer chess, I’ve annotated Zsofia’s Sack of Rome with a combination of Leela and asmfish. https://lczero.libertymedia.io/2019... |
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| Jun-20-19 | | Christoforus Polacco: Beautiful Lady. The Rome tournament this is her golden place at history of world chess. Respect ! |
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Jan-09-24
| | offramp: User: MissScarlett is holding a monthly <Chess Lookalike competition>, with the first prize of two thousand chessbookie stotinki. I won the December Lookalike Competition with this brilliant entry: Jonathan Speelman (kibitz #74). Apart from the $2,000 chessbookie stotinki I also won 2 copies of the book <RAMPANT CHESS> by Gareth McGonagall (known as Sally Simpson). This book is written in medieval Scottish descriptive notation. Anyway, I think Miss Scarlett's January compo is about <Sofia Polgar> (see above). Here is my entry (in one hundred words or less): "I think Sofia Polgar looks exactly like <Paul McCartney>". |
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| Nov-14-24 | | Nosnibor: May I ask offramp when you stated that Sofia Polgar looks exactly like Paul McCartney whether or not you have attended an appointment with the optician recently? |
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