 In the summer of 1994, Polgár had the greatest success of her career to that point, when she won the Madrid International in Spain.Against a field which included Gata Kamsky, Evgeny Bareev, Valery Salov and Ivan Sokolov, she finished 7–2 and 1½ points ahead of second place.Her performance rating for the tournament was 2778 against an opposition rated at 2672.