Zsuzsa Polgar

Born April 19, 1969 in Budapest

The world champion women (1996). In the national team of Hungary winner of two competitions (1988, 1990).
Grandmaster since 1991.

FIDE rating of 1 April 2001. - 2565


Zsuzsa Polgar, the eldest of the famous sisters, the first forced to talk about the phenomenon of the chess world Polgar. Perhaps it was she who first started to fight on equal terms with male grandmasters (winning the title in 1991). Of course, not with the elite, but with the owners of decent ratings, regulars and krugovikov shveytsarok. However, having got in at some point in a more serious company, Zsuzsa realized that its continued progress in the men's chess, a big question. Well, the women's chess game of power and class should be quite enough. So why not become a world champion?

Better a dove on the plate than a grouse on a lek. In the mid-nineties, its domination in women's chess was evident. In the final match of the candidates in 1993 by a blind fate was unfavorably disposed to Zhuzhe, but in the next cycle, it has consistently scored convincing victories over Chiburdanidze and Xie Jun and wins chess crown. So what happened next - the history of murky. Anyway, Zsuzsa did not (according to her version was deprived of the right) to defend his title and moved to the rank of ex-champions. However, it seems that it is not too sad. Polgar happily married, she has her own chess school in New York, what more could you want?

The latest victory Zsuzsa won in the hall of the Olympic trial in Lausanne. Arbitration ordered to pay FIDE Zhuzhe Polgar compensation for the fact that she was deprived of an opportunity to defend the title of world champion. The amount of compensation has not yet determined ...