Judit Polgar, the highest-rated woman chess player of all time who never participated in a woman's chess tournament but battled it out against all odds against the formidable male players of her times, the likes of Kasparov, Anand, Kramnik and Karpov and so often emerged successful from the contest. A Jewish-Hungarian by birth, Judit, along with her sisters Susan and Sofia, remains an inspiration to all aspiring women chess players and, why, so many male chess players as well.
Judit followed Sofia, an International Master in chess, and Susan, the eldest of the three Polgar sisters, who was the first woman to qualify as a classical chess Grandmaster, the fruition of a unique experiment in training genius, conducted by their father Laszlo Polgar, a trained psychologist, who had theorised that genuis could be the product of efficient diligence and it was not necessarily a feature attained by birth.
Judit followed Sofia, an International Master in chess, and Susan, the eldest of the three Polgar sisters, who was the first woman to qualify as a classical chess Grandmaster, the fruition of a unique experiment in training genius, conducted by their father Laszlo Polgar, a trained psychologist, who had theorised that genuis could be the product of efficient diligence and it was not necessarily a feature attained by birth.
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