Perks of being top rated womens player

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Judit Polgar, number 1 rated woman in the world recieved a top of the line custom made watch for her achievements in the game of chess while at a tournament in Switzerland from Delance, one of the most prestigious watch companies in the world.

Here is the news article: http://www.nationaljewelernetwork.com/njn/content_display/watches/e3i3c7c6a28fc7d496ab20c97eed7f00dd2?imw=Y

 

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She deserves it. Wow this made me go check her wikipedia entry, and she got the GM title at 15 years old!

 

Another thing just caught my eye there  "She and her two older sisters, Grandmaster Zsuzsa and International Master Zsófia, were part of an educational experiment carried out by their father László Polgár, in an attempt to prove that children could make exceptional achievements if trained in a specialist subject from a very early age. "Geniuses are made, not born," was László's thesis. He and his wife Klara educated their three daughters at home, with chess as the specialist subject."

This reminds me of the story of William Sidis.

" In 1994 she suffered a controversial defeat at the hands of then-world champion Garry Kasparov, the highest-rated chessplayer of all time. Kasparov changed his mind after making a losing move and then made another move instead. According to chess rules, once a player has released a piece s/he cannot make a different move, so Kasparov should have been made to play his original move. However, Polgár did not challenge this because she says there were no witnesses and an arbiter was not around. She was also unaware at the time that the re-move was caught on tape by a television crew. The tournament director was criticised for not forfeiting Kasparov when the videotape evidence was made available to him."

Interesting stories there! 

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Im last person here🫒🫒🫒