judit polgar
she is great player
Okay we get it she's good!
"In the past few years, I have been able to add some “standard” items to my CV: In 2000, I married Gusztav Font, a wonderful man and veterinarian by profession."
Aww how cute ^_^
Being a Hungarian has she ever played the... Budapest! :D
I wonder how if she has any negative feelings about being part of an "educational research project", "Practically from the moment of my birth"...
chessmicky wrote:
I'm sure she must wonder what different directions her life might have taken, but from everything she has written, the love of chess took root in her from the start and she has always loved the game. She has certainly always played with the air of someone who loves what she's doing
Thanks, chessmicky, I'm glad to hear that. Reading what she wrote above made me feel kinda sad. I'd heard a little of the Polgar sisters and their training but I'd hadn't heard anything about how the girls felt about it all.
Biography
judit polgar Says
I have never been good at writing CVs. This is because I have trouble coming up with the usual items, such as educational institution, course of study, profession and career path. I was homeschooled, and since I became a professional chess player at an early age, I have never held a conventional job.
Practically from the moment of my birth, on July 23, 1976, I became involved in an educational research project. Even before I came into the world, my parents had already decided: I would be a chess champion. My sister Susan had been a successful player for years, winning one tournament after another. Based on educational studies, our parents decided that their children’s lives and careers would be a living example, that would prove that any healthy child – if taught early and intensively - can be brought up to be exceptionally successful in any field. In our case, this meant having a chess career.
Thus, my biography essentially consists of achievements as a chess player. I was nine when I first won an international chess tournament, and at the age 12 and 14, I won the boys’ World Chess Championship in my age groups. I was only 12 when – for the first time in the history of Hungarian chess – the national women’s team, including my two sisters Susan and Sofia, won the Olympic gold medal. Two years later, in 1990, we repeated this performance with the same teenage team.
Ever since that second Olympic gold medal, I have competed only against men. At the age of 15 I broke the record of Bobby Fischer, by becoming the youngest international chess Grandmaster ever. On six occasions, I represented the Hungarian "men’s" national team at chess Olympiads. In 2002 we won the silver medal in Slovenia. I have defeated world chess champions Spassky, Karpov, Kasparov, Topalov, Anand and Carlsen in international tournaments, matches and rapid competitions. In 2011, I became No. 1 on the women’s world ranking list for the 50th time. I have managed to keep this position as the best woman chess player since 1989. My highest rank on the World Men's Rating List was 8th in 2005. I was awarded the Chess Oscar seven times, and was elected Woman Chess Player of the Century. I won the individual bronze medal at the European Championship in 2011.
In the past few years, I have been able to add some “standard” items to my CV: In 2000, I married Gusztav Font, a wonderful man and veterinarian by profession. We now have two children, Oliver and Hanna. Thus, not only is my CV now more comprehensive, but my whole life has become richer.
In recent years as an ambassador of Chess in School project in the European Union I have made a lot of efforts to introduce chess as an educational tool. I authored two children's books on chess, Chess Playground 1-2 together with my sister, Sofia.
In 2012 I established the Judit Polgar Chess Foundation for Educational Benefits to bring chess as an educational tool to children in schools throughout the world by providing a unique and complex chess curriculum and enrichment programs focusing on the cross curricular links. I also designed the Chess Palace educational program that was integrated into the National Curriculum in Hungary, and made ”Skill-building Chess” subject available for elementary schools from September 2013. I have also developed an elementary student book and workbook series called “Chess Palace” for 1-4 grade students.
In March 2013 I was awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of HungaryCommander's Cross with Star.
In March 2014 I was officially appointed the Ambassador of Hungarian Talent. It’s a great honor, and also a reaffirmation of my mission to promote my chess educational program as an innovative method for teaching creative thinking to the children of the digital world.
I won the 2012 FIDE Caissa award - the "Oscar of Chess".
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