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Judit Polgar is a legend. At the age of 15 years and four months, she became a grandmaster, breaking the 34 year old record of Bobby Fischer as the youngest grandmaster of all time. Polgar went on to become the best female player in the history of chess and was the first woman to achieve a rating above 2700. At her peak Polgar belonged to the top ten in the world and played for the absolute world championship. She is known for her attractive attacking style and won many games through brilliant combinations. The new ChessBase Master Class takes a close look at her legacy.

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20 years ago today, on September 8, 2002, the match Russia vs. The Rest of the World began in Moscow. It was a rapid match with the world's best players at that time. The Russians wanted to follow up on the USSR vs. the World matches from 1970 and 1984, but things did not go as desired. Dagobert Kohlmeyer was in Moscow in 2002 and now shares memories of a better time. | Photo: Evgeny Bareev, Vladimir Kramnik and Garry Kasparow wonder what's going. | Photo: Boris Dolmatovsky | All other photos: D. Kohlmeyer

In the third episode of the series "Olympiad stories with Saravanan", IM Sagar Shah and IM Venkata Saravanan discuss Judit Polgar's flabbergasting 12½/13 performance in the 1988 Thessaloniki Olympiad. Judit was rated 2365 FIDE at the time, with rating lists coming out every six months. Not only did Hungary sweep the championship to take gold and defeat the all-powerful Soviet chess team, but Judit had an incredible 2694 performance, and she was barely twelve years old. To better put this in perspective, you need to realize that, in 1988, only two players in the world had 270...