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I was born in Budapest. I am a chess player and became a grandmaster at the age of 15. I am a two-time Women's Chess Olympiad champion and reached 8th place in the men's world rankings.
Birth name
Judit Polgar
Born
1976-07-23, Budapest
Profession
Chess player
Scientific Degree
University degree
Awards
FIDE100 Award
Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary
Chess Oscar
Hungarian Super Champion
Women's Chess Olympiad Champion
Judit Polgár is the child of a Jewish family from Budapest. Judit and her two older sisters, Zsuzsa and Zsófia, were participants in a pedagogical experiment: their father, László Polgár, proved that children are capable of peak performance if they are trained from an early age (in a manner appropriate to their age) in a specialized field. The parents educated them as private students, but chess was not taught to the exclusion of everything else: each of them holds multiple academic degrees and speaks between four and eight foreign languages. They are regarded among the best chess players. Judit and her parents remained in Hungary and live in Budapest. Her husband is a veterinarian; their first child, Olivér, was born in 2004, followed by their second, Hanna, in July 2006.
The best female chess player in chess history, and the only woman to have surpassed the 2700 Elo-point super grandmaster threshold. She reached her highest rating, 2735 points, in July 2005. Her best position on the overall world ranking was 8th place, which she first achieved in January 2004. She led the women’s world ranking continuously from 1989 until March 2015. It is unique that from the age of 12, she held the number one spot on the adult women’s world ranking for 26 years (312 months), which is a record on both the men's and women’s world rankings in terms of both age and duration of holding the top position. In August 2014, she announced her retirement from active competition. From 2015 to 2016, she served as the captain of the Hungarian men's national team.
The Dohány Street synagogue is one of Budapest’s touristic highlights as it is the largest synagogue in Europe and the second largest in the world. The synagogue was built in 1859 in the Moorish style and it can seat 3000 people. Its huge size demonstrates the significance and the high economic and cultural standards of the Budapest Jewry of the age.
The temple was designed by Ludwig Förster (1797-1863), a German architect, professor of the Vienna Academy. The clerk of works was the architect Ignác Wechselmann (1828-1903) who later bequeathed his entire wealth to the Institute of the Blind. After Förster left, Frigyes Feszl, the famous architect of the Budapest Vigadó designed the temple’s inner sanctum. The official consecration of the synagogue took place on 6 September 1859. The interior of the synagogue is 1200 square metres, the towers are 44 metres high. There are 1497 seats for men downstairs and 1472 for women in the galleries, altogether the seating capacity of the flat-ceilinged inner space is nearly 3000 people.
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