Published: November 30, 2019
Female chess players, like me, thrive when they play against the world’s best men
• Judit Polgár is a Hungarian chess grandmaster and was the highest-ranking female player until her retirement in 2014
I am used to being cited as living proof that women can play chess at the same elite level as men. When I was 15, I became the youngest grandmaster in the world, breaking the record set by Bobby Fischer more than three decades earlier. It turned out that I was not able to become the overall world champion, but I always strived to fulfil this ambition – and at my peak, I was the eighth highest ranked player in the world.
Even if women think and compete differently, we can attain the same achievements as men: be it in science, art or chess
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