Author: AFP|Update: 14.12.2020 00:01 Judit Polgar s chess career saw her scale the international heights of the sport and reign as women s number one for 25 years / © AFP/File
Watching the hit Netflix show The Queen s Gambit sparked deja-vu for Hungarian chess great Judit Polgar, regarded as the game s best-ever female player.
Like the show s fictional heroine Beth, an orphaned chess prodigy, Polgar tackled not just opponents across the board but gender stereotypes in the male-dominated sport. I played all my life with male competitors, sometimes I was the only female player at a tournament, she told AFP in an interview.
Now 44, Polgar became the youngest-ever international grandmaster aged 15, breaking US legend Bobby Fischer s record, and went on to beat a string of male world champions.
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