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Judit Polgar 
Photograph copyright © 2005 World Chess Championship Press.  
Judit Polgar
Number of games in database: 1,437
Years covered: 1984 to 2008
Current FIDE rating: 2693
Highest rating achieved in database: 2735
Overall record: +472 -306 =487 (56.6%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      172 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (272) 
    B90 B33 B93 B32 B82
 Ruy Lopez (146) 
    C89 C67 C78 C92 C90
 French Defense (98) 
    C11 C18 C10 C12 C15
 Ruy Lopez, Closed (78) 
    C89 C92 C90 C95 C91
 Caro-Kann (69) 
    B14 B17 B18 B19 B13
 Sicilian Najdorf (65) 
    B90 B93 B92 B99 B95
With the Black pieces:
 Sicilian (269) 
    B90 B47 B22 B40 B48
 King's Indian (155) 
    E97 E62 E81 E92 E73
 Sicilian Taimanov (57) 
    B47 B48 B45 B49 B46
 Sicilian Najdorf (46) 
    B90 B92 B98 B93 B97
 Queen's Indian (39) 
    E15 E12 E17 E18 E19
 Nimzo Indian (35) 
    E32 E49 E48 E21 E20
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Judit Polgar vs F Berkes, 2003 1-0
   Judit Polgar vs Kasparov, 2002 1-0
   Judit Polgar vs Anand, 1999 1-0
   Judit Polgar vs Kasimdzhanov, 2005 1-0
   Judit Polgar vs P Angelova, 1988 1-0
   Judit Polgar vs Mamedyarov, 2002 1-0
   Judit Polgar vs Karpov, 2003 1-0
   Shirov vs Judit Polgar, 1994 0-1
   Judit Polgar vs Shirov, 1995 1-0
   Judit Polgar vs Svidler, 2005 1-0

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: [what is this?]
   FIDE World Championship Tournament (2005)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   The Princess of Chess - Judit Polgar by Resignation Trap
   Zsuzsa Polgar, Zsofia Polgar, Judit Polgar by wanabe2000
   Judit the Chess Queen by Minor Piece Activity
   The Polgar sisters. by lostemperor
   Judit! by larrewl
   99_Lev Polugajevky Tourn. Buenos Aires 1994 by whiteshark
   Wijk aan Zee Hoogovens 1998 by suenteus po 147
   Linares 1997 by suenteus po 147
   Judit Polgar by Solid DD
   Cannes World Cup Rapid 2001 by KingG
   Tilburg Fontys 1997 by suenteus po 147

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JUDIT POLGAR
(born Jul-23-1976) Hungary

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Judit Polgar was born in Hungary in 1976. Her childhood included an extensive chess education from her father, László, and her sisters. Beginning international competition as early as 1984, she won the U12 Boys World Championship in 1988 and the U14 Boys World Championship in 1990. In 1991 she became an International Grandmaster by winning the "men's" Hungarian championship. At fifteen years and five months of age, she was the youngest grandmaster in history, breaking a record that Robert James Fischer had held for over 30 years. She has been the highest-rated woman ever since FIDE's January 1990 list, and in 2003 she entered the overall top ten. In 2005, she became the first woman to take part in the final of FIDE's FIDE World Championship Tournament (2005). However, she finished last out of the eight players and fell to 14th in the world rankings after the event.

Polgar's career-best tournament performances include four victories at Essent (twice shared), clear first at Madrid 1994, and clear second at Corus 2003. She currently lives in Budapest with her husband and their two children.


 page 1 of 58; games 1-25 of 1,437  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves Year Event/LocaleOpening
1. I Balogh vs Judit Polgar 0-128 1984 BudapestB30 Sicilian
2. Judit Polgar vs H Grooten 1-022 1984 BudapestB83 Sicilian
3. Judit Polgar vs Szendrei 1-021 1984 BudapestB90 Sicilian, Najdorf
4. Judit Polgar vs Mednis 0-144 1986 AdelaideC15 French, Winawer
5. Judit Polgar vs Kientzler 1-034 1986 RioB90 Sicilian, Najdorf
6. Judit Polgar vs K Hornung 1-054 1986 Adelaide open 10C31 King's Gambit Declined, Falkbeer Counter Gambit
7. Judit Polgar vs T Hutters  1-041 1986 CopenhagenB32 Sicilian
8. Judit Polgar vs S Djuric  0-145 1986 AdelaideC30 King's Gambit Declined
9. T Hay vs Judit Polgar 1-031 1986 It (open)B83 Sicilian
10. Judit Polgar vs D Drimer 1-062 1986 AdelaideB40 Sicilian
11. Flear vs Judit Polgar 1-053 1987 SWIFT tournamentA44 Old Benoni Defense
12. Judit Polgar vs M Sharif 1-043 1987 Brussels OHRA 02C30 King's Gambit Declined
13. B Zueger vs Judit Polgar  ½-½41 1987 Biel-AA57 Benko Gambit
14. Judit Polgar vs Chandler 1-057 1987 Biel (Switzerland)A46 Queen's Pawn Game
15. Judit Polgar vs A Papa 1-019 1987 San BernardinoB06 Robatsch
16. Judit Polgar vs L Gutman 1-037 1987 SWIFT tournamentB83 Sicilian
17. Judit Polgar vs J Costa 1-032 1987 Biel-AC33 King's Gambit Accepted
18. H Nowotny vs Judit Polgar 0-140 1987 San BernardinoA45 Queen's Pawn Game
19. G Kool vs Judit Polgar 0-137 1987 SWIFT tournamentA37 English, Symmetrical
20. I Nemet vs Judit Polgar 1-034 1987 San BernardinoA57 Benko Gambit
21. D Pergericht vs Judit Polgar 1-026 1987 SWIFT tournamentA04 Reti Opening
22. Judit Polgar vs A Huss  0-152 1987 Biel-AC15 French, Winawer
23. P Christen vs Judit Polgar  0-142 1987 San BernardinoA04 Reti Opening
24. Judit Polgar vs L J Kerkhoff 1-031 1987 SWIFT tournamentB09 Pirc, Austrian Attack
25. Hort vs Judit Polgar 1-025 1987 San BernardinoA58 Benko Gambit
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Jan-13-09   s4life: <alexmagnus The Austrian (or was it Swiss?) chess federation actually leads statistics about average rating, also gender-wise. It was like 1600 for men and 1450 for women IIRC.>

Do you have a link for that?

<alexmagnus: Expected by what? The 1:16 ratio? Based on which formula?> just averaged random sampling, assuming the scores fit a known PDF... at least that's how I'd proceed.

Jan-13-09
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  percyblakeney: Some regional differences with regards to women's playing strength compared to men's. In the top 100 in Russia there are no women, while China's top 30 contains seven women, and that would be more if for example Xie Jun was active and Zhu Chen had stayed in the country. Still the top men in China are 2700+ while all women are below 2600.
Jan-13-09
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  alexmagnus: <Do you have a link for that?>

Different numbers, same concept: here the statistics of the Swiss chess federation:

http://www.schachbund.ch/schachspor...

<average rating 1754
women 1547
juniors 1562
girls 1470>

Jan-13-09   DeltaHawk: <s4life> Right. I have not thought about it that way, but still, it is not true that the 100 worst players are all men. What I am saying is that the top 100 players are almost all men. Judit Polgar is the exception because she is a woman and there is hope for other women that they can be just as good as men. Since the top 100 players are almost all men, that makes their bell curve distribution shift to the right. I don't think the disparity has to do with tail-ended heaviness, but that the distribution is shifted to the right, making men better than women.
Jan-13-09   shintaro go: What if we raise an infant boy and infant girl at the same time, teach them both about chess and have a match of 12 games between them after say 15 years of chess training and lecture. The results would be intriguing although it would be cruel to subject them to "lab-experiment" conditions. But I guess its needed to put a rest to the whole "are men better in chess than women in chess" discussion.
Jan-14-09
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  alexmagnus: <shintaro>15 is too little. 30 is better. Note the rating statistics I posted: girls vs, juniors diffrenece is by far not as big as women vs all players.
Jan-14-09
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  alexmagnus: <Right. I have not thought about it that way, but still, it is not true that the 100 worst players are all men> Actually if it should be explained by statistical phenomena only (like Spiegel wants it), then 100 worst players <must> be all men...
Jan-14-09   DeltaHawk: If the 100 worst people were men, which is not true, then there would be some equality between men and women.
Jan-15-09   s4life: <alexmagnus: <Do you have a link for that?> Different numbers, same concept: here the statistics of the Swiss chess federation:>

So now the swiss are an unbiased representation of the whole chess player population? even a fairly quick look at the data shows this not to be true.

women 161
men 4066

How can you talk about averages with only 161 women players? The ratio is way smaller than 1:16

<deltahawk> the majority of the 100 worst players should be male... the data should be somewhere in the FIDE website. I have no time to keep this going though.

Jan-15-09
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  alexmagnus: <s4life> The 1:16 ratio was not representative for the whole world too. It was the ratio for <Germany>.

Also, FIDE has a rating floor of 1400, so you cannot find 100 worst players there...

Jan-15-09   s4life: <alexmagnus: <s4life> The 1:16 ratio was not representative for the whole world too. It was the ratio for <Germany>.>

Size of population of Germany is >>>> than size of population in Switzerland. I'll take the average of the germans any day... I mean how good of an estimator an average of 167 women be for the mean of the whole population? care to answer this one?

Jan-15-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  alexmagnus: I'd take the German average but unfortunately they don't have a similar statistics page...
Jan-15-09   s4life: <alexmagnus: <If course it would, if the distribution of ELO scores is tail-heavy which it is.> A bell curve has TWO "tails" :). So I don't see how it works.>

The rating floor cuts one of the tails. That and the fact that tail-heavy distributions favor large population samples should do well explaining the differences in average -- even in the german case, the averages diverge by few hundred points --.

Jan-15-09
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  alexmagnus: <s4life> National federations have no rating floors.
Jan-29-09
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  SatelliteDan: Judit, do you read this?
Jan-29-09   nhat8121: she doesn't read this.
Jan-29-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  keypusher: Chabris and Glickman looked at all USCF chessplayers between 1992 and 2004, over 250,000 total. 10.6% of the sample was female. The mean difference between male and female ratings is 450-500 points. After adjusting for age and frequency of play (adjusting for frequency of play seems problematic for me; yes, playing more makes you better, but better players tend to play more) left an average difference of 150-200 points.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Mar-05-09
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  KingG: Does anyone know when was the last time Judit played another woman in competitive chess?

It would be interesting if Hou Yifan or Koneru Humpy got strong enough that it would be worthwhile organizing a match with Polgar. I don't know what the point of these 'women's world championships' is when everyone knows who the best female player is, and she's so far ahead of everyone else that she doesn't even bother playing them.

Mar-05-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  alexmagnus: <J.Polgar's last game against a woman>: I may have missed something, but looks like it was Xie Jun vs Judit Polgar, 2001
Mar-05-09   volvak: What was her performance rating at the Olympiad?
Mar-05-09   volvak: I think that was the last time I saw polgar play last year.
Mar-05-09
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  KingG: <alexmagnus> Thanks! A rather disappointing game though.
Apr-14-09   Katu: Finally I found the photo I seen in a magazine. That's why I put up my question before.

http://zegorz.uw.hu/scan.jpg

May-05-09
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  HeMateMe: I'd like to see her play a match against one of the new young stars,like Yifan, or humpy. I don't think it will happen unless serious money is involved.

Not sure if she generates enough interest for a company to bankroll a match. It would be done, of course, for the free publicity for the sponsor, i.e., when IBM bankrolled deep thought vs. Kasparov.

She seems to be in semi retirement, gonna spend more quality time with her kids.

Jun-20-09   ex0duz: I really miss her participation at super gm events. I hope you and your family are doing well Judit.

Her, along with Kasparov retiring has left a pretty big hole in the chess world, one that i don't think will be filled any time soon, if ever :(

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