László Polgár is an educational psychologist who believes a child can excel at anything if pushed. He home schooled his three daughters as an experiment to prove this, pushing them to play chess ...

Queen of Chess is an intriguing new Netflix documentary film focusing on real-life female chess champion Judit Polgár. The factual film is perfect for fans of the 2020 drama The Queen’s Gambit and ...

Judit Polgár won the very first chess tournament she ever played in. She was 6 years old. The Hungarian-born prodigy's impressive rise to chess stardom, which included becoming the world's top-ranked ...

Judit Polgár was the No.1 ranked woman chess player in the world for over 25 years—from the age of 13 in 1989 till 2014 when she retired. She also became the youngest chess grandmaster (GM) at the age ...

Budapest: Innovation, it seems, runs deep in the Polgar family DNA. In the 1970s, the father Laszlo, a teacher, challenged Hungary's communist authorities by homeschooling his children as chess ...

Judit Polgar is a phenomenon. She is not just the best woman chess player of all time; she is the best by a mile. Chess grandmasters (note master! – traditionally, chess barely recognised the ...