What is Judit Polgár?
{{Infobox chess player |name = Judit Polgár |image = Judit The Look Polgar.jpg |caption = Judit Polgár, 2008 |birthname = Polgár Judit |country = Hungary |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1976|7|23|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Budapest]], Hungary |death_date = |death_place = |title = [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] (1991) |worldchampion = |rating = [inactive since September 2015] |peakrating = 2735<br/><small>(No. 8 player and No. 1 woman in the July 2005 FIDE World Rankings)</small> |peakranking = No. 8 <small>(July 2005)</small> |FideID = 700070 |currentranking=No. 74 <small>(December 2018) Fide (all players)</small> [inactive since September 2015] }} '''Judit Polgár''' (born 23 July 1976) is a [[Hungary|Hungarian]] [[chess]] [[Grandmaster (chess)|grandmaster]]. She is by far the strongest female chess player in history,<ref>Hooper D. and Whyld K. ''The Oxford companion to chess''. 2nd ed, Oxford.</ref><sup>p312</sup> yet she has never played in the [[List of World Chess Champions#Women's World Champions|Women's World Chess Championship]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Judit Polgar: 'I can work myself into the top ten again'|publisher=[[ChessBase]]|url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4244|date=2007-11-11|accessdate=2008-02-04}}</ref> In 1991 she got the title of Grandmaster (GM) at 15 years, 4 months. She was, at that time, the youngest person to do so. Polgár is now ranked number 51 in the world,<ref>[http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=700070 FIDE rating card for Judit Polgar]</ref> the only woman on [[FIDE]]'s ''Top 100 Players'' list; she has been ranked as high as eighth. == Life == Judit and her two sisters were [[Education|educated]] at home by their father. She always preferred playing in the open events, making it clear from the start that she wanted to become the true world chess champion regardless of gender. This considerably annoyed the Hungarian Chess Federation, which had visions of winning the [[List of World Chess Champions|Women's World Championship]] after decades of Soviet