Judit was the crown jewel of László Polgár’s experiment. She became a grandmaster at fifteen years,3 five months, making her at that time the youngest person, male or female, to ever reach that level. She was the number-one-ranked women’s chess player in the world for twenty-five years, until she retired from chess in 2014. At one time she was ranked number eight in the world among all chess players, male or female, and in 2005 she became the first — and so far only — woman to play in the overall World Chess Championship.
Women chess player
