CHESS PLAYER

Judit Polgár

1976 - Today

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Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster, widely regarded as the strongest female chess player of all time. 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 was the youngest player ever to break into the FIDE top 100 players rating list, ranking No. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Judit Polgár has received more than 3,161,015 page views. Her biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Judit Polgár is the 22nd most popular chess player (up from 27th in 2019), the 120th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 121st in 2019) and the most popular Hungarian Chess Player.

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  • 64

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 16.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Judit Polgár ranks 22 out of 461. Before her are Nona Gaprindashvili, Paul Morphy, Paul Keres, Ruy López de Segura, Viktor Korchnoi, and Samuel Reshevsky. After her are Siegbert Tarrasch, Akiba Rubinstein, Richard Réti, Johannes Zukertort, David Bronstein, and Mikhail Chigorin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1976, Judit Polgár ranks 11. Before her are Andriy Shevchenko, Cillian Murphy, Ramzan Kadyrov, Clarence Seedorf, Chester Bennington, and Michael Ballack. After her are Ruud van Nistelrooy, Benedict Cumberbatch, Patrick Vieira, Yuval Noah Harari, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, and Alessandro Nesta.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Judit Polgár ranks 120 out of 1,077. Before her are Orestes (420), Bayan I (600), Saint Emeric of Hungary (1000), Marcel Grossmann (1878), George I Rákóczi (1593), and Ladislaus II of Hungary (1131). After her are Archduke Joseph August of Austria (1872), Miklós Jancsó (1921), Péter Medgyessy (1942), Piali Pasha (1515), Gyula Horn (1932), and George II Rákóczi (1621).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Hungary

Among chess players born in Hungary, Judit Polgár ranks 1. After her are László Szabó (1917), Lajos Portisch (1937), Géza Maróczy (1870), Isidor Gunsberg (1854), András Adorján (1950), Gedeon Barcza (1911), István Csom (1940), István Bilek (1932), Levente Lengyel (1933), Lajos Asztalos (1889), and Zoltán Ribli (1951).

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