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 ...

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 ...

In a storied chess club on the second floor of a Greenwich Village brownstone, the strongest female chess player in history teaches a group of kids her philosophy on the game. “The biggest challenge ...

This past Saturday, Judit Polgar, one of the most decorated and strongest chess players of all time, was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame during the 6th Annual Strategy Across the Board Gala ...

She is the only women ranked in World Chess Federation's top 100 players Birth of first child forced Polgar to reassess: "Everything really fell apart" Now she balances professional chess with writing ...

Judit Polgar, one of the world’s top chess players, has hit back against a claim by another of the game’s stars that men are naturally better chess players. “We are capable of the same fight as any ...

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 ...