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7th Global Chess Festival Highlighting Power of the Game Underway
The Global Chess Festival founded and organized by chess legend Judit Polgár, will be held for the seventh time on October 9, 2021. This year, the festival sponsored by Morgan Stanley, is set out to be a hybrid event: visitors will be able to join the wide variety of large-scale programs in Budapest or even online from their homes.
The mission of Judit Polgár’s Global Chess Festival is to promote the 1,000 faces of chess all around the world, share the beauty of chess with 5 million people by 2025, and to connect and enjoy chess-related activities on the day of the festival.
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The youngest in the field
The new tour organized by the Play Magnus Group counts with the support of two legends of the royal game, former world champion Vladimir Kramnik and the strongest woman player in history Judit Polgar. Both stars had been working on projects related to chess after retiring from professional competition. Polgar organized the Judit Polgar’s Global Chess Festival while Kramnik worked with Boris Gelfand in training camps for young Indian talents.
In their latest enterprise, they are the leaders of two teams of youngsters at the Julius Baer Challengers Chess Tour. The first tournament of the tour, the Polgar Challenge, kicked off on Thursday, with the first 5 rounds of a 20-player single round robin event.
Judit Polgar joins Play Magnus as Educational Ambassador
Judit Polgar, the strongest female chess player of all time, has joined the Play Magnus Group to advance the shared mission of making chess a powerful tool in education. Judit will continue to commentate on top events on chess24 while also producing educational content on Chessable.
Judit Polgar - the closest chess has come to a real-life Beth Harmon | photo: juditpolgar.com
Judit’s extraordinary career saw her beat Bobby Fischer s long-standing record to become the youngest grandmaster in history at the age of 15 years and 5 months. She went on to become a Top 10 player and single-handedly disproved the notion that women are incapable of competing with men in chess, with her fierce attacking style capable of striking fear into the heart of any opponent. Her victims included World Champions Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov, Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Alexander Khalifman, Ruslan Pono