When I found out that Judit Polgar wouldn't play women's only chess tournaments I immediately respected her like no other player. She doesn't care about gender, she just wants to play the strongest players... and beat them.
One of the Polgars was criticised that it was easier to play men and so they gave all the women extra rating, so out of principle she played a woman's tournament and won it just to make a point. Judit just attacks for the sake of it! No reverse gears...
In fact se beat Kasparov once in 2002. Anyway she has a very bad record against Garri: she lost 12 games and won just one. But nevertheless she's a tactical genius.
She is a great player but doesn't really compare with Carlsen and Kasparov. Make it clear when you say she beat these players. Cuz I can play someone 10000 games and win only one game then say I beat them without mentioning how many I lost and people will think I am the better player. She didn't beat any of them in the overall score. Kasparov: 1 win 12 losses Carlsen: 1 win 11 losses Anand: 10 wins 28 losses Karpov: 14 wins 21 losses
I recall Kasparov once saying something like "chess is a game in which you mentally destroy your opponent." I have a lot of respect for him for being prepared to take on extremely powerful chess computers (effectively on behalf of humanity) - there was a lot at stake.
She beat 11 world champions, had multiple wins against Karpov, and was making Kasparov rage out of the tournament room. The one and only Queen of chess.
"She beat 11 world champions, had multiple wins against Karpov, and was making Kasparov rage out of the tournament room" So? Obviously they were better than her, despite your silly attempt.
@@kensandale243 My silly attempt? At what? Obviously they were better than Judit, but at her prime, she was still competing at their level and beating them, and many other strong grandmasters. She is the first and only woman to ever qualify for the Candidates Tournament for crying out loud. Just because her opponents were strong doesn't take anything away from her skill. I think you terribly misunderstood the context of the message.
@@kensandale243 . The point is the Judit Polgar is the best female player of all time. So good, in fact, that she managed to beat world champions and remain a threat to them during her career. What part of that do you have a problem with? Do women frighten you that much?
Just a note about the last sentence in the video video description. "Regarded" does not due Judit's talent justice. She is absolutely, unequivocally, without a doubt the strongest female chess player in history. She is the only woman in the 1300 year history of the game to ever become a super grandmaster and compete exclusively on equal footing with men. What she was able to accomplish is without parallel. There is simply no one with which to compare her. Judit Polgar is easily the greatest female competitor of all time.
Absolutely! Susan's awesome! But she'd be the first to tell you that, at her strongest, Judit would have utterly annihilated any woman chess player that ever lived.
Susan Polgar was/is great for being a female, maybe amongst the 300 best players in the world when she was at her best. In no other individual sport would we argue that the #300 is great or even good, even if they beat the living daylight out of us ordinary people (and most any other active sportsman) in their respective sport :PThey are all three accomplished players, but Judith is the one female player that in reality ever competed to be world champion.
"She is one of the greatest reason why I'm proud to be a hungarian. " Mindless nationalism. P,S. Yout fellow Hungrians (intentional) tried to kill her family.
As a male player she is mine too and I would say the same for Anna Rudolf, just as one other example. It isn't just their stellar play. It is that they come as themselves, joking and laughing and speaking to me like a human being and a friend. By this humility - something we do not associate overly with male GM's - they inspire me because they do not unthinkingly or inadvertently belittle me but consciously uplift me in a way I can take personally, that I can take to heart. I hope man and woman and alike will forgive me for indulging in such a grand generalisation. Agadmator has a lot of wonderful games featuring female players, he makes a point of it, and I recommend his channel to you.
I don't even think it's aggressive. I just think she's the best at finding aggressive ideas, so they come to mind. The. Best. Equal or tied with anyone else in the world.
@@kirillzakharov7336 She made it to #8 at her peak in 2004. How many men in the last 100 years did better? For that matter, how many men have cracked the top 7 in the last 18 years? At least a dozen in just 18 years. Hou Yifan is a distant second to Judit among women.
Interestingly, I recall Judit saying her sister Sofia was actually the most talented of the Polgar sisters and she had that amazing tournament in Rome in 1989, but unfortunately she didn’t have the same passion for the game and “only” became an International Master.
If you ever go over some of her more well known games she presses really hard and really aggressively sometimes conjuring up new ideas as she attacks she is one of the more interesting chess players I have ever seen.
Take notes people. Judit is understating her achievements out of modesty, but you must make no mistake: Judit Polgar changed the entire world of chess. Before her it was widely believed that women were, by nature, unable to compete with the best men. When she qualified for the Candidates Tournament (8-player tournament to determine the challenger for the world champion) the rules didn't formally allow for a woman to participate - simply because nobody had even considered that it could be possible. Judit had been playing mesmerizing, imaginative, BEAUTIFUL chess and everybody in the chess world wanted to see her play - *so they changed the rules for her*. She shattered the glass ceiling of chess and proved beyond any doubt that women CAN compete with (and beat) the best men in the world. Never believe people when they say you can't do something because of your gender, your age, your nationality or anything else. It takes work, of course, determination and perseverance, but you can do it. Judit worked like hell, played like a thunderstorm and faced all competition without fear, tearing down barriers and changing the world around her to allow her light to shine through the clouds. You can do anything you really put your mind to.
I'm coming here from a video on lazslo's experiment on his children to prove there's nothing like innate talent but hardwork and training and right after I saw this video. Coincidence 🤯
Yeah, they did a test with current world champion Magnus Carlsen when they put some positions on the board and he was able to correctly say which games they were from, most times even the correct year it was played. And this was games stretching from the 30's to the 90's. Simply amazing. I can't even remember the first 2 moves from Sicilian Defense ;)
@@hatzikuN Stop underselling yourself and stop making a big deal out of grandmasters. Jesus Christ, it's annoying when people do that. You clearly can remember more than the first two moves from the Sicilian Defence...heck, a toddler can do that. Practice makes perfect in most cases.
Her face at 11:10 and her smile and raising her arms, just was everything for me. Made me tear up a little. So glad to see strong women represented and possibilities opening up.
''Practice, Perseverance, and Passion ...'' I will use those in my writing career. Thank you for sharing your story; we all need to be reminded once and again to push forward against the odds. Thank you.
Practice, perseverance and passion! The 3 P's too successfully achieving your own personal goals, objectives or tasks. This was a brilliant story and a perfect example of how ones determination can overcome any obstacle in life...
She is definitely and absolutely by far the greatest women player of all times. She has no comparison now, and never through history. Kudos to her and her parents, as well as her sisters. She played some historical games, her role in chess turned over all previous paradigm.
She played some of the most beautiful games in the history of chess, games that are still a pleasure to study today ... the video gives a glimpse at the player behind these masterpieces
I'm from a country that always wants sports to be played attractively and agressively (in the good sense of the word, of course). It was during the '90s when I played chess myself. And after I replayed some games from grandmasters, I was particularly impressed by Polgar's playing style and began admiring her for it. There would be men like Kasparov who would be better on overall record, but it was Judit Polgar's style that did it for me. When I replayed some of her games from books back then, I was like: "Wow! This woman plays chess like our Dutch national team plays soccer! So full of initiative, so agressively, so offensively and directly going for the target. I wish she had become the overall world champion, but she already enchanted people with her style.
What a girl ! She and her two sisters never went to school, were home schooled by their parents. Learnt chess and challenged the men and beat most of them. She remained a top 10 player for many times and was always a respected and feared grandmaster.
I remember when I became very curious about chess, I was a young boy then I bought that chess magazine looking at the games of the grandmasters, one of them was Polgar. I thought he was male, many years have past until I discovered she was a female. Wonderful Woman. Amazing. 😊. The best.
@@ddandymann She's the only woman to break the 2700+ Elo. She peaked at 2735 which would put her in 19th place today. I wonder if there will ever be a Female world chess champion.
@@jeffreykaufmann2867 I wonder too. I read somewhere that only 1 out of 20 professional chess players (who make a living from playing chess) are female. Of course the number of girls in chess is growing fast. Because genius minds are rare, I think there are just not enough women into chess to answer this question. (I hope you understand what I mean) I like classical music very much, and I have an old book about top piano and violin soloists which was published around 1950. The author honestly believed that it is impossible for women to play the violin as good as men- and today many of the best violinists are definitely women.
@Mathilde Wesendonck Imagine how much more popular Chess would be if A Woman was the challenger in a World Championship Match. The whole world would be watching.
As someone who has taught school for years, I agree with her views on the wisdom of teaching chess to children, as my dad did me. In my dream curriculum students would have at least a working knowledge of the greatest 5-7 games ever invented. I think it would be wonderful and benefit those individuals for a lifetime.
When i was Young i played chess at a semicompetitive level, went a couple of times to the regional Championship, got invited once to the national. I was really small, like comically small and i would often play against people much bigger than me, even if they were my age. What's funny IS that chess shows a lot about your personality and especially how you overcome obstacles, how you deal with situations. I was very agressive on the board, often going with an Evans gambit a quite fun oppening which most of the times develops into cutthroat games. I found out the same as she said, one way of dealing in chess with an intimidating adversary IS to press It as much as you can, push and punish. As i got older however i learned the other side of the Coin, play safe, strong, mantain the advantage and win a discrete victory. Chess taught me so much things, It taught me patience, persistance, resilience, the weight of consequence and time control. It's maybe the most personal Game in the world, the way you can express yourself on the board IS simply INCREADIBLE
I met Judit in 2010 in Khanty Mansisk. She’s humble, pleasant and very friendly, a feature that’s very uncharacteristic of male Grandmasters except Vishy Anand. I have pleasure of taking a picture with her.
I watched her one of game against Wishwanath Anand , she had brilliant moves and finally Anand resigned. Judit Polgar is really good example for women to dominate chess with male opponents.
What a wonderful human being. Promoting education skill that's benefiting everyone, regardless of religion, culture or historical background. Thank you.
It is more about Kasparov rather then her, because he did it also in other matches. And just to be clear by cheating you mean dropping a peace for a 1 sec. Technically you can call it a cheating, but it is not something that give him any advantage at all.
@@JustRandomPerson Well that's was cheating nevertheless. The move that Kasparov did and then undid was Nc5, and that was a losing move in that position due to the answer Bc6 by Judith, But Kasparov saw that just after he dropped the piece and instantaneously retook it.
Judit Pólgar should not be remembered as the strongest woman chess player. She should be remembered as one of the strongest chess players ever - period.
Let's not kid ourselves here: if she was a man, no one would remember her achievements as much. Sure she was great, but not "contender for the world title - great" or "winning tournament after tournament - great". Maybe somewhat comparable to Morozevich, he was great too, but no one would think he's one of the greatest ever. The fact people somehow rate her higher is just because she's a woman. Don't even try to deny it, you know it's true.
Got introduced to this legend after seeing her on samay and sagar's stream... I'm glad I got to know her... There's so much I could learn from her ❤️❤️❤️
Fischer is the legend of chess. No wonder he said that. my dream matches that couldn't come true..... Fischer vs Kasparov, Fischer vs Polgar, Fischer vs Carlsen .... just imagine the tsunami on chess board...
There are more points on a one inch line segment than the number of all the possible chess positions to the power of the number of all atoms in the universe.
There are exactly as many points on a one inch line segment as combinations for both are infinite, and both infinities exceed the finite number of atoms in the universe.
I don’t know if it is just coincidence, but a lot of situations that she quoted actually happened in The Queens Gambit! Like she winning the 15 guys simultaneously and the Kasparov studying her game
It is, the book was written previous to Polgar's career. (And I'm sure that winning multiple games at once is common to most, if not all, famous chess players).
@@UntakenNick Most strong players occasionally give “simuls”, i.e. playing many games simultaneously against amateur players; they typically win the vast majority of games. Some notable efforts: 1. Kasparov once played six International Masters (one notch below Grandmaster) and won all of them. 2. A Grandmaster named Timur Gareev played 49 players simultaneously - without looking at any of the boards (an assistant told him the moves on each board).
Judit Polar should be an icon for younger siblings everywhere. Was clear her parents thought her older sister would be the most talented. She proved 'em wrong!
Judit, you had a very difficult audience... but, you made me laugh a lot with you, gave me such joy and I loved to see such a wholesome woman, who simultaniously still is greatest female chess player of all times. Much love and adoration to you🫶
A preposterous claim. She is the best female player ever by far and a great ambassador for the game, but no one with any knowledge of the game would put her even in the top 20 overall.
Tell me, what is the reason that chess has male and female divisions anyway?? What is the point, when there is nothing physical about the game, only brain-power is involved. So why would you keep men and women players separate in the first place?
Josip Coric it's been a male dominated sport for many years largely because women were barred from playing in traditional tournaments and being members of chess clubs. pick up a book sometime and relieve some of your ignorance.
70 or more years ago? and you refer to me as the ignorant one? 1986 you moron. the world chess championship was referred to as the Men's World Chess Championship until 1986 and used as the reason to keep Susan Polgar (Judit's sister) from qualifying to compete in the championship. the chances of playing at that level are slim to none, so trying to make up for lost time because you weren't allowed to play at the boy's club makes it that much harder.
jesus frybread Well first of all my intent is not to offend anyone nor to be sexist or mysoginist but there actually is a biological difference between men and women when it comes to chess. The drive to play and the chemical reward that your body gives you when you win or make a wonderful combination on the board is a rush of testosterone, wich has a stronger reaction on men for obvious reasons and keeps the players motivated to improve and makes them competitive. Anyways the male supremacy in the sport is a reality and is as tangible as it gets. Women are allowed to enter a tournament where there are male players because that kind of tournaments are just called Open Tournaments, anyone can enter so if a woman has what it takes and trains just like any other chess prodigy thats hungry to climb to the top of the sport, then that woman should be able to make it but still no results, thats just how it is.
her games are more of an inspiration to anyone playing chess than dozens of super GMs playing "solid lines" and "correct moves". playing on the highest level and still is FUN to watch! oh and btw... kasparov DID touch that knight of course! :P
This is a true feminist that I can respect: Instead of complaining about being discriminated for her gender. she honors her ambition with real devotion and focus, and produces real value - and proves herself to be even better than her male detractor. What is even more amazing (which she does not share here) - is that she did not become world champion not because she failed or gave up. It was (as I read somewhere) because she made a conscious choice to start a family and raise her children, and that would not allow her the highly demanding regime that playing chess on that level requires.
She was 28 (2004) when she reduced her commitment to chess. Had she not done so, she may have made it to world champion in part through good timing: the champions during her prime years (2000-13) were not very dominant. Before that was Kasparov and after was Carlsen--both of whom became world champions in their early twenties.
During a time when she was the only woman in the world ranked with men. Plus she managed to maintain her human side. Becoming a mother, her most important job, meant that she had to decide her life like a chess game and make sacrifices in time and energy. She made good choices in both. Of her 3 sisters, she is the most talented and dangerous over the board.
I wish that i played chess at early age. I played my first game at 15/16 and then never played and now i am 20 years old and it's been 3 months since i have been playing chess and i can see a lot of improvement in myself. I have played around 600 games in 3 month and i am loving it. The main part is the happiness when you are crushing your opponent and the sadness when they are winning.
You know....Judit Polgár may never have been Ranked Number 1 in the world, and she may never have been a World Champion, but in her Career she not only played, but also defeated some of the greatest Chess players of all time, many of whom were Ranked Number 1, and were World Champions (Karpov, Kasparov, Anand, Carlsen, Etc.). Now of course these defeats don’t take anything away from those magnificent players, a Chess career is obviously more that just a measure of one or two games, but it does raise an interesting philosophical question. What is the true measure of a Champion? Is it struggling everyday, moving forward inches at a time, until one finally reaches the mountain top, or is it being surrounded on all sides facing down any and every challenge no matter how daunting with courage, grit, and sheer willpower?
When I found out that Judit Polgar wouldn't play women's only chess tournaments I immediately respected her like no other player. She doesn't care about gender, she just wants to play the strongest players... and beat them.
One of the Polgars was criticised that it was easier to play men and so they gave all the women extra rating, so out of principle she played a woman's tournament and won it just to make a point. Judit just attacks for the sake of it! No reverse gears...
Actually, she would play a women only tournament if she got well paid and it had women that could compete with her. This according to her self.
that's very cool.
Yeah? how's that working out
Pretty well.
She beat Anand, Carlsen, Karpov and had a very good game with Kasparov, She's not a regular champion, she is one of the best players ever
In fact se beat Kasparov once in 2002. Anyway she has a very bad record against Garri: she lost 12 games and won just one. But nevertheless she's a tactical genius.
@@echever7424 Adding more wood to the fire, people remember the famous "adjust" by Garri.
@Mike Jones she was top ten in elo for a very limited time in her life. and she was the only woman who ever achieved that.
She is a great player but doesn't really compare with Carlsen and Kasparov.
Make it clear when you say she beat these players. Cuz I can play someone 10000 games and win only one game then say I beat them without mentioning how many I lost and people will think I am the better player. She didn't beat any of them in the overall score.
Kasparov: 1 win 12 losses
Carlsen: 1 win 11 losses
Anand: 10 wins 28 losses
Karpov: 14 wins 21 losses
if you compare it with other women, yes she is is one of the best if not the best but in absolute she is not, with numbers, but who cares about that.
"If to play like a girl meant anything in chess. It would mean relentless aggression". Kasparov.
That is an reference to Polgár :P
I know.
He is the king of double meaning quotes.
I recall Kasparov once saying something like "chess is a game in which you mentally destroy your opponent." I have a lot of respect for him for being prepared to take on extremely powerful chess computers (effectively on behalf of humanity) - there was a lot at stake.
@@cmbnz kasparov cheated in a game against judit
She beat 11 world champions, had multiple wins against Karpov, and was making Kasparov rage out of the tournament room. The one and only Queen of chess.
"She beat 11 world champions, had multiple wins against Karpov, and was making Kasparov rage out of the tournament room"
So?
Obviously they were better than her, despite your silly attempt.
@@kensandale243 My silly attempt? At what? Obviously they were better than Judit, but at her prime, she was still competing at their level and beating them, and many other strong grandmasters. She is the first and only woman to ever qualify for the Candidates Tournament for crying out loud. Just because her opponents were strong doesn't take anything away from her skill. I think you terribly misunderstood the context of the message.
@@kensandale243 . The point is the Judit Polgar is the best female player of all time. So good, in fact, that she managed to beat world champions and remain a threat to them during her career. What part of that do you have a problem with? Do women frighten you that much?
@@kensandale243is it your mom did something not nice to the point you hate woman this much?
@@MrSupernova111Threat?She wasn't a threat to any champion during their reign.
Just a note about the last sentence in the video video description. "Regarded" does not due Judit's talent justice. She is absolutely, unequivocally, without a doubt the strongest female chess player in history. She is the only woman in the 1300 year history of the game to ever become a super grandmaster and compete exclusively on equal footing with men. What she was able to accomplish is without parallel. There is simply no one with which to compare her. Judit Polgar is easily the greatest female competitor of all time.
M Andrews susan polgar is pretty good 2
Absolutely! Susan's awesome! But she'd be the first to tell you that, at her strongest, Judit would have utterly annihilated any woman chess player that ever lived.
Susan Polgar was/is great for being a female, maybe amongst the 300 best players in the world when she was at her best. In no other individual sport would we argue that the #300 is great or even good, even if they beat the living daylight out of us ordinary people (and most any other active sportsman) in their respective sport :PThey are all three accomplished players, but Judith is the one female player that in reality ever competed to be world champion.
I wouldn't be so sure. Give Hou Yifan a few years, then we'll see.
Maybe, but there is a huge gap to close.
Its not just Judith, its Polgar sisters. All 3 sisters are incredible
Yep
She is one of the greatest reason why I'm proud to be a hungarian. She's amazing.
"She is one of the greatest reason why I'm proud to be a hungarian. "
Mindless nationalism.
P,S. Yout fellow Hungrians (intentional) tried to kill her family.
Õ meg a dàridó az M1-en.
and because of Gulyas
🤣
It would be awesome if chess was taught in schools at an early age.
Yes, but our system is too busy spreading leftist--shit because even the most stupid creatures can be "social"; it doesn't require brains.
no
in India it happens at lot of schools
Brian H. Stastny always a douchebag who has to shoehorn his own two bullshit political cents into any topic.
@KV yes!! i could not agree more.
As a female chess player, Judit is my inspiration to improve and stick with chess. I admire her a lot!!
As a male player she is mine too and I would say the same for Anna Rudolf, just as one other example. It isn't just their stellar play. It is that they come as themselves, joking and laughing and speaking to me like a human being and a friend. By this humility - something we do not associate overly with male GM's - they inspire me because they do not unthinkingly or inadvertently belittle me but consciously uplift me in a way I can take personally, that I can take to heart. I hope man and woman and alike will forgive me for indulging in such a grand generalisation. Agadmator has a lot of wonderful games featuring female players, he makes a point of it, and I recommend his channel to you.
She a good role model. She comes across as charming, likable and decent.
What chess got to do with gender?
Want to play a game? I am a tournament player as well :)
@@imonoke7903nothing but female players are constantly belittled and underlooked
To play as aggressively as Polgar did against GMs, takes alot of guts and confidence.
yes, almost reminds me of Kasparovs agressive games
I don't even think it's aggressive. I just think she's the best at finding aggressive ideas, so they come to mind. The. Best. Equal or tied with anyone else in the world.
There was a big compliment by Nigel Short: "Judit smells mate 20 moves ahead!" :D
Not at all! Look up the head-to-head between Judit Polgar and Nigel Short! Then you'd put NO comma at all in Short's sentence! :P
@Guillaume Huet He got a bit humiliated when she beat him, but in fairness nearly all of us would have got beat, there's no shame in it.
"Judit smells mate 20, moves ahead"
That's nice considering Short is a misogynist
Judit is not an incredible female chess player. She's an *incredible chess player*. Period.
She is the only female chess player who could possibly be called "incredible." Of course, dozens of men in the last 100 years were better than her.
FACTS. LET PEOPLE CRY. BASEED. FUCGERS.
@@kreek22 Pia Cramling
@@kreek22 dozens? that's a bit of a stretch. Also, don't forget Hou Yifan from China
@@kirillzakharov7336 She made it to #8 at her peak in 2004. How many men in the last 100 years did better? For that matter, how many men have cracked the top 7 in the last 18 years? At least a dozen in just 18 years. Hou Yifan is a distant second to Judit among women.
Interestingly, I recall Judit saying her sister Sofia was actually the most talented of the Polgar sisters and she had that amazing tournament in Rome in 1989, but unfortunately she didn’t have the same passion for the game and “only” became an International Master.
Sofia Polgar's performance in Rome was rated more than 2900. One of the strongest performances ever man or woman.
@@jeffreykaufmann2867 the infamous "Sack of Rome".
Sofia Polgar had 11 GM norms. Sofia Polgar was kept from becoming a GM just because she was a woman.
@@themudkipmando4125 Sad
If you ever go over some of her more well known games she presses really hard and really aggressively sometimes conjuring up new ideas as she attacks she is one of the more interesting chess players I have ever seen.
True
You are right Beethoven.
Take notes people. Judit is understating her achievements out of modesty, but you must make no mistake: Judit Polgar changed the entire world of chess. Before her it was widely believed that women were, by nature, unable to compete with the best men. When she qualified for the Candidates Tournament (8-player tournament to determine the challenger for the world champion) the rules didn't formally allow for a woman to participate - simply because nobody had even considered that it could be possible. Judit had been playing mesmerizing, imaginative, BEAUTIFUL chess and everybody in the chess world wanted to see her play - *so they changed the rules for her*. She shattered the glass ceiling of chess and proved beyond any doubt that women CAN compete with (and beat) the best men in the world. Never believe people when they say you can't do something because of your gender, your age, your nationality or anything else. It takes work, of course, determination and perseverance, but you can do it. Judit worked like hell, played like a thunderstorm and faced all competition without fear, tearing down barriers and changing the world around her to allow her light to shine through the clouds. You can do anything you really put your mind to.
The exception confirms the rule
I'm coming here from a video on lazslo's experiment on his children to prove there's nothing like innate talent but hardwork and training and right after I saw this video. Coincidence 🤯
No not coincidence, its called YT algorithm
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It happnd to me too
Same
Same for me
Samesame
WHAT A POSITIVE ROLE MODEL FOR YOUNG WOMEN OF ALL COUNTRIES ALL OVER THE WORLD. SUCH A WONDERFULL LADY.
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE SHUT UP
*wonderful
as mato jelic said of Judith polgar - she's so aggressive that randomly she attacks anyone on the street :p she's so cool!
Mato = best chess commentator ever :D
she's the ultimate woman chess player, i just wonder how would Sofia have fared had she kept on playing.
I can't even remember what I did last week. And these great chess players can remember a game and the position the pieces. Unbelievable.
Yeah, they did a test with current world champion Magnus Carlsen when they put some positions on the board and he was able to correctly say which games they were from, most times even the correct year it was played. And this was games stretching from the 30's to the 90's. Simply amazing. I can't even remember the first 2 moves from Sicilian Defense ;)
Practice makes perfect
@@hatzikuN Stop underselling yourself and stop making a big deal out of grandmasters. Jesus Christ, it's annoying when people do that. You clearly can remember more than the first two moves from the Sicilian Defence...heck, a toddler can do that. Practice makes perfect in most cases.
She made what no one had even imagined possible in that age, she is amazing!!
Her face at 11:10 and her smile and raising her arms, just was everything for me. Made me tear up a little. So glad to see strong women represented and possibilities opening up.
''Practice, Perseverance, and Passion ...'' I will use those in my writing career. Thank you for sharing your story; we all need to be reminded once and again to push forward against the odds. Thank you.
She is such an inspiration!
She is, for sure.
Who came here after that polgar sister video?
Me
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@@Yasmin-wi6yl Yess
Practice, perseverance and passion! The 3 P's too successfully achieving your own personal goals, objectives or tasks. This was a brilliant story and a perfect example of how ones determination can overcome any obstacle in life...
She is definitely and absolutely by far the greatest women player of all times. She has no comparison now, and never through history. Kudos to her and her parents, as well as her sisters. She played some historical games, her role in chess turned over all previous paradigm.
She is/was a Chess BEAST. Her aggressive tactical prowess was magnificent. I believe at her apex, she was rated #6 in the world.
8 was her highest ranking
When Kasparov puts down his jacket.
His mind: blyat!
Hahahaahaha
that woman is a legend, my god isn't she incredible at the chessboard.
and also, she seems like an unbelievably friendly and warm person. how sweet.
Judit Polgar, the female Mikhail Tal. Great sacrifices, beautiful combinations and absolutely merciless in their hunt for the King.
She played some of the most beautiful games in the history of chess, games that are still a pleasure to study today ... the video gives a glimpse at the player behind these masterpieces
Wow. I'm glad she did this talk. I've been curious about her for a while.
I really liked Judit from the moment I started learning about the chess world. Now, after watching this video I absolutely LOVE her
I'm from a country that always wants sports to be played attractively and agressively (in the good sense of the word, of course). It was during the '90s when I played chess myself. And after I replayed some games from grandmasters, I was particularly impressed by Polgar's playing style and began admiring her for it. There would be men like Kasparov who would be better on overall record, but it was Judit Polgar's style that did it for me. When I replayed some of her games from books back then, I was like: "Wow! This woman plays chess like our Dutch national team plays soccer! So full of initiative, so agressively, so offensively and directly going for the target. I wish she had become the overall world champion, but she already enchanted people with her style.
Judit is a legend .
What a girl ! She and her two sisters never went to school, were home schooled by their parents. Learnt chess and challenged the men and beat most of them. She remained a top 10 player for many times and was always a respected and feared grandmaster.
I remember when I became very curious about chess, I was a young boy then I bought that chess magazine looking at the games of the grandmasters, one of them was Polgar. I thought he was male, many years have past until I discovered she was a female. Wonderful Woman. Amazing. 😊. The best.
She defeated Topalov, Karpov, Kasparov, Vishy, and Carlsen. She basically rules the world.
Karpov and Kasparov both have a winning head to head vs Judit.
@@jeffreykaufmann2867 Yet both still consider her a worthy and dangerous opponent while they look down on the majority of GM's.
@@ddandymann She's the only woman to break the 2700+ Elo. She peaked at 2735 which would put her in 19th place today. I wonder if there will ever be a Female world chess champion.
@@jeffreykaufmann2867 I wonder too. I read somewhere that only 1 out of 20 professional chess players (who make a living from playing chess) are female. Of course the number of girls in chess is growing fast. Because genius minds are rare, I think there are just not enough women into chess to answer this question.
(I hope you understand what I mean)
I like classical music very much, and I have an old book about top piano and violin soloists which was published around 1950. The author honestly believed that it is impossible for women to play the violin as good as men- and today many of the best violinists are definitely women.
@Mathilde Wesendonck Imagine how much more popular Chess would be if A Woman was the challenger in a World Championship Match. The whole world would be watching.
I absolutely agree that chess should be in all schools. It's not just a game. It also teaches logic.
Judit egy nagyszeru ember. Gratulalok az apukajanak ehhez Polgar Lacibacsinak is. Bizonyitotta az igazat!!
Judit Sakkpalota programja is zseniális. 🙂
I think any young lady who comes across this video will take something very important with them.
"Practice, perseverance and passion" key elements of success.
As someone who has taught school for years, I agree with her views on the wisdom of teaching chess to children, as my dad did me. In my dream curriculum students would have at least a working knowledge of the greatest 5-7 games ever invented. I think it would be wonderful and benefit those individuals for a lifetime.
Bravo Judit Polgar! Watching from Kenya in mid- 2019!
hadi wewe?😃👌
Watching this video after I watched Agadmator's video of Judith Pulgar defeating Vishy Anand.....
When i was Young i played chess at a semicompetitive level, went a couple of times to the regional Championship, got invited once to the national. I was really small, like comically small and i would often play against people much bigger than me, even if they were my age. What's funny IS that chess shows a lot about your personality and especially how you overcome obstacles, how you deal with situations. I was very agressive on the board, often going with an Evans gambit a quite fun oppening which most of the times develops into cutthroat games. I found out the same as she said, one way of dealing in chess with an intimidating adversary IS to press It as much as you can, push and punish. As i got older however i learned the other side of the Coin, play safe, strong, mantain the advantage and win a discrete victory. Chess taught me so much things, It taught me patience, persistance, resilience, the weight of consequence and time control. It's maybe the most personal Game in the world, the way you can express yourself on the board IS simply INCREADIBLE
For me Chess is as much art as sports. Her style makes her one of the goat.not only her strenght.
I met Judit in 2010 in Khanty Mansisk. She’s humble, pleasant and very friendly, a feature that’s very uncharacteristic of male Grandmasters except Vishy Anand. I have pleasure of taking a picture with her.
Did you detect any humbleness in this Ted talk?
You may not play chess like Judit Polgar but you can definitely be as humble as Judit Polgar.
I watched her one of game against Wishwanath Anand , she had brilliant moves and finally Anand resigned. Judit Polgar is really good example for women to dominate chess with male opponents.
One of the greatest Chess players of all time!!! Very aggressive and criative. Love watching her matches.
She is a living legend. So much respect to her.
What a wonderful human being. Promoting education skill that's benefiting everyone, regardless of religion, culture or historical background. Thank you.
"Dream big, make good moves in life, set your goals high and reach the impossible." 11:05 👏
Judit is so freaking great... her chess game is unreal..
She has a very sweet personality and an amazing laugh ♥♥
A true & living inspiration.
She's amazing, and deserves every bit of praise that gets thrown her way.
The double bishop sacrifice, an amazing game to analyze by any chess player looking to learn the great game.
whats amazing is that even the example where she gives blindfolded checkmate ....is a real smothered MATE!!!
2:25 Qg8+ Rxg8 Nf7 is smothered mate wow
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Beau LeCoq, Agreed.
It's easy
not certainly. But she surely meant it
Having a photographic memory helps I imagine
you made Kasparov cheat in one of his games
she made him cheat thats how strong she is
It is more about Kasparov rather then her, because he did it also in other matches. And just to be clear by cheating you mean dropping a peace for a 1 sec. Technically you can call it a cheating, but it is not something that give him any advantage at all.
@@JustRandomPerson Well that's was cheating nevertheless. The move that Kasparov did and then undid was Nc5, and that was a losing move in that position due to the answer Bc6 by Judith, But Kasparov saw that just after he dropped the piece and instantaneously retook it.
@@echever7424 he has done that in other games too lol
@@darkghoul4049 that doesn't mean it's a normal thing lol
well, Kasparov is much stronger than her regardles, but yes making him "cheat" was a minor victory
She have such a sweet voice ❤️ hard to imagine she is the ferocious lioness she is in chess
Crazy, I saw a video talking about her 2 days ago...
Great work.
Crushing your opponents can sure make you happy and eternally jolly and laughing. :P Jokes aside, she & her sisters are a great inspiration.
she looks like an ordinary sweet mom who would totally screw you up in a serious chess game
The person at the end was awesome. He made me watch the video like another 50 times..
Speaking of best female chess players ever, I can't force myself not to mention that Leela Chess Zero is typically anthropomorphized as a female.
Judit Pólgar should not be remembered as the strongest woman chess player. She should be remembered as one of the strongest chess players ever - period.
Let's not kid ourselves here: if she was a man, no one would remember her achievements as much.
Sure she was great, but not "contender for the world title - great" or "winning tournament after tournament - great". Maybe somewhat comparable to Morozevich, he was great too, but no one would think he's one of the greatest ever. The fact people somehow rate her higher is just because she's a woman. Don't even try to deny it, you know it's true.
I love chess, Judit is a legend.
Interesting that her and Hikaru were both the second sidings to take up chess with something to prove.
Amazing achievement for her to become GM. Male dominated sport broke open. She is legend.
She is youngest of polger sisters.
The emcee did not fail to grab the opportunity with this golden time with Polgar. Thank you, thank you!
So true.. Chess is already a subject in Armenian schools... That's really impacting the way peopel think
Got introduced to this legend after seeing her on samay and sagar's stream... I'm glad I got to know her... There's so much I could learn from her ❤️❤️❤️
I absolutely adore Judit Polgar and she is my only inspiration for playing chess.
Loved this Talk.... she has a real message for women.
Fischer is the legend of chess. No wonder he said that. my dream matches that couldn't come true..... Fischer vs Kasparov, Fischer vs Polgar, Fischer vs Carlsen .... just imagine the tsunami on chess board...
vivek tamma fischer vs karpov😢
Karpov-kasparov matches were legendary. Fischer said that the those matches were premeditated which speaks volumes about their quality.
Actually the reason why Fischer vs. Polgár didn’t happen is because, according to Fischer “She was Jewish”.
Fisher vs. Stockfish. Alas.
No wonder he said that? Wtf
There are more points on a one inch line segment than the number of all the possible chess positions to the power of the number of all atoms in the universe.
There are exactly as many points on a one inch line segment as combinations for both are infinite, and both infinities exceed the finite number of atoms in the universe.
I don’t know if it is just coincidence, but a lot of situations that she quoted actually happened in The Queens Gambit! Like she winning the 15 guys simultaneously and the Kasparov studying her game
It is, the book was written previous to Polgar's career. (And I'm sure that winning multiple games at once is common to most, if not all, famous chess players).
@@UntakenNick oh that’s cool! I didn’t know
@@UntakenNick Most strong players occasionally give “simuls”, i.e. playing many games simultaneously against amateur players; they typically win the vast majority of games. Some notable efforts:
1. Kasparov once played six International Masters (one notch below Grandmaster) and won all of them. 2. A Grandmaster named Timur Gareev played 49 players simultaneously - without looking at any of the boards (an assistant told him the moves on each board).
This is a marvelous talk about chess and life -- everyone who loves chess should watch.
It came in my recommendation after she comes on samay's stream.
Goda is respectable animal
Judit Polar should be an icon for younger siblings everywhere. Was clear her parents thought her older sister would be the most talented. She proved 'em wrong!
Judit, you had a very difficult audience... but, you made me laugh a lot with you, gave me such joy and I loved to see such a wholesome woman, who simultaniously still is greatest female chess player of all times. Much love and adoration to you🫶
She is so adorable, such a charisma. ;D
She is referring to the most famous chess combination in chess.. Nh6+ kh8 qg8+ rg8 nf7#
She might be the greatest chess player of all time.
Ahhhh, no. But she's a genius anyway.
A preposterous claim. She is the best female player ever by far and a great ambassador for the game, but no one with any knowledge of the game would put her even in the top 20 overall.
Many tnx for the upload, 👍🇭🇺
Tell me, what is the reason that chess has male and female divisions anyway?? What is the point, when there is nothing physical about the game, only brain-power is involved. So why would you keep men and women players separate in the first place?
2 women in the top 100 players in the world, wouldn't be fair
Josip Coric it's been a male dominated sport for many years largely because women were barred from playing in traditional tournaments and being members of chess clubs. pick up a book sometime and relieve some of your ignorance.
70 or more years ago? and you refer to me as the ignorant one? 1986 you moron. the world chess championship was referred to as the Men's World Chess Championship until 1986 and used as the reason to keep Susan Polgar (Judit's sister) from qualifying to compete in the championship. the chances of playing at that level are slim to none, so trying to make up for lost time because you weren't allowed to play at the boy's club makes it that much harder.
jesus frybread Well first of all my intent is not to offend anyone nor to be sexist or mysoginist but there actually is a biological difference between men and women when it comes to chess. The drive to play and the chemical reward that your body gives you when you win or make a wonderful combination on the board is a rush of testosterone, wich has a stronger reaction on men for obvious reasons and keeps the players motivated to improve and makes them competitive.
Anyways the male supremacy in the sport is a reality and is as tangible as it gets. Women are allowed to enter a tournament where there are male players because that kind of tournaments are just called Open Tournaments, anyone can enter so if a woman has what it takes and trains just like any other chess prodigy thats hungry to climb to the top of the sport, then that woman should be able to make it but still no results, thats just how it is.
Laura M Men are smarter than women, don't be naive.
Judith explains the essence of chess and she's an authority in every sense of the sport.
her games are more of an inspiration to anyone playing chess than dozens of super GMs playing "solid lines" and "correct moves". playing on the highest level and still is FUN to watch!
oh and btw... kasparov DID touch that knight of course! :P
Of all the chess players ever, Judit is my biggest inspiration. Way to go Judit, you are a masterpiece!
This is a true feminist that I can respect: Instead of complaining about being discriminated for her gender. she honors her ambition with real devotion and focus, and produces real value - and proves herself to be even better than her male detractor.
What is even more amazing (which she does not share here) - is that she did not become world champion not because she failed or gave up. It was (as I read somewhere) because she made a conscious choice to start a family and raise her children, and that would not allow her the highly demanding regime that playing chess on that level requires.
THIS. Most feminists are just likes to be spoiled a lot
She was 28 (2004) when she reduced her commitment to chess. Had she not done so, she may have made it to world champion in part through good timing: the champions during her prime years (2000-13) were not very dominant. Before that was Kasparov and after was Carlsen--both of whom became world champions in their early twenties.
2:25 she does smothered mate while talking about blindfold chess. What a legend :D
Inspiring talks by the Chess Queen Judit.
People forget that she was in the top ten players of the world, of all players, both men and women…. A true Grandmaster
During a time when she was the only woman in the world ranked with men. Plus she managed to maintain her human side. Becoming a mother, her most important job, meant that she had to decide her life like a chess game and make sacrifices in time and energy. She made good choices in both. Of her 3 sisters, she is the most talented and dangerous over the board.
3:51 this is wholesome 💕☺️
I wish that i played chess at early age. I played my first game at 15/16 and then never played and now i am 20 years old and it's been 3 months since i have been playing chess and i can see a lot of improvement in myself. I have played around 600 games in 3 month and i am loving it. The main part is the happiness when you are crushing your opponent and the sadness when they are winning.
You know....Judit Polgár may never have been Ranked Number 1 in the world, and she may never have been a World Champion, but in her Career she not only played, but also defeated some of the greatest Chess players of all time, many of whom were Ranked Number 1, and were World Champions (Karpov, Kasparov, Anand, Carlsen, Etc.). Now of course these defeats don’t take anything away from those magnificent players, a Chess career is obviously more that just a measure of one or two games, but it does raise an interesting philosophical question. What is the true measure of a Champion? Is it struggling everyday, moving forward inches at a time, until one finally reaches the mountain top, or is it being surrounded on all sides facing down any and every challenge no matter how daunting with courage, grit, and sheer willpower?
A very brave heart? ❤
"from a sunny day the thunder comes" epic