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Judit, Zsuzsa, Zsófia and László Polgár, 1989. Polgár was born on 23 July 1976 in Budapest to a Jewish-Hungarian family. [14] Polgár and her two older sisters, Grandmaster Susan and International Master Sofia, 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 ...
The championship match was played in Jaén in 1996 and, like the Candidates Tournament, dominated by Polgar who won 6 games (against 2) and in the end defeated champion Xie Jun by four points. [4] The match was set for 16 matches, but ended early, when Polgar reached 8.5 points.
Polgar was born and brought up in Budapest, Hungary, to a Hungarian-Jewish family. [4] In 1994, Polgar married computer consultant Jacob Shutzman, and moved to New York. They have two sons, Tom (born 1999) and Leeam (born 2000). She later divorced. In December 2006, she married her longtime business manager and friend, Paul Truong.
The table below organises the world champions in order of championship wins. (For the purpose of this table, a successful defence counts as a win, even if the match was drawn.) The table is made more complicated by the split between the "Classical" and FIDE world titles between 1993 and 2006.
In 2010, as the head coach for the Texas Tech Knight Raiders chess team, Susan Polgar became the first woman to lead a chess team to the Final Four. [2] In April 2011 the Texas Tech Knight Raiders won the President's Cup; [3] this made Polgar the first female head coach to lead a chess team to the national title. [2]
Johannes Sebastian Polgar (born 25 August 1977) is a German sailor, who specialized in the multihull and keelboat Star) classes. [1] Together with his partner Florian Spalteholz, he was named one of the country's top sailors in the mixed multihull catamaran for the 2008 Summer Olympics , finishing in eighth place. [ 2 ]
László Polgár (born 11 May 1946) is a Hungarian chess teacher and educational psychologist. He is the father of the famous Polgár sisters: Zsuzsa, Zsófia, and Judit, whom he raised to be chess prodigies, with Judit and Zsuzsa becoming the best and second-best female chess players in the world, respectively.
Erzsébet Polgár is a Hungarian former professional tennis player.. Polgár, who won national singles championships in 1964 and 1968, featured in three editions of the French Open. [1]