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The native form of this personal name is Polgár Judit. This article uses the Western name order.

Judit Polgár
Judit Polgár, 2008 Sparkassen Chess-Meeting
Full name	Judit Polgár
Country	Hungary
Born	23 July 1976 (age 38) Budapest, Hungarian People's Republic
Title	Grandmaster (1991)
FIDE rating	2675 (September 2014) (No. 65 player and No. 1 woman in the August 2014FIDE World Rankings)
Peak rating	2735 (No. 8 player and No. 1 woman in the July 2005 FIDE World Rankings)

Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She is by far the strongest female chess player in history.^[1] In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, at the time the youngest to have done so, breaking the record previously held by former World Champion Bobby Fischer. She is the only woman to qualify for a World Championship tournament, having done so in 2005. She is the first, and to date, only woman to have surpassed the 2700 ELO rating barrier, reaching a career peak rating of 2735 and peak world ranking of #8, both achieved in 2005. She has been the #1 rated woman in the world since 1989 (when she was 12 years old).

She has won or shared first in the chess tournaments of Hastings 1993, Madrid 1994, León 1996, U.S. Open 1998, Hoogeveen 1999, Siegman 1999, Japfa 2000, and the Najdorf Memorial 2000.^[2]

Polgár is the only woman to have won a game from a reigning world number one player, and has defeated ten current or former world champions in either rapid or classical chess: Magnus Carlsen, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov,Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander Khalifman, and Rustam Kasimdzhanov.^[3] On August 13, 2014, she announced her retirement from competitive chess.^[4]^[5]

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