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ČEZ CHESS TROPHY 2010
GM Judit Polgar (2682)
Judit Polgar (33) The most famous and the world's best female chessplayer. She has been for over ten years by far the strongest player among females and she is the only woman in the history of chess ever to enter the Top Ten world's chart (no other female ranks among the first hundred). She is the only female who equally competed with the best male chess players, she even managed to beat one of the best chess players ever, Garry Kasparov.
The Hungarian woman grandmaster, Judita Polgar, is the youngest and the most successful of three sisters. All of them were educated by their parents at home, with the main focus on chess and languages. Sofia Polgar moved to Israel (she stopped actively playing chess) and Susan Polgar moved to USA, where she teaches and popularizes chess. Judit Polgar stayed faithful to both, chess and Budapest, where she lives with her husband a veterinarian Gusztav Font, her five year old son Oliver and three year old daughter Hanna.
Judit Polgar is known for her aggressive playing style. Her biggest success is the second place at the Corus 2003 Wijk aan Zee tournament, behind future World Champion Viswanathan Anand, but ahead of then-world champion Vladimir Kramnik. In 2002 in the match Russia vs. the Rest of the World she beat Garry Kasparov. Polgar is currently ranked number 47 in the world's rating list with an ELO rating of 2682.
Two sample games:
GM Judita Polgar - GM Ferenc Berkes, Budapest 2003
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 dxe4 5.Nxe4 Be7 6.Bxf6 Bxf6 7.Nf3 O-O 8.Qd2 Nd7 9.O-O-O Be7 10.Bd3 b6 11.Neg5 h6 12.Bh7+ Kh8 13.Be4 hxg5 14.g4 Rb8 15.h4 g6 16.hxg5+ Kg7 17.Qf4 Bb7 18.Rh7+ Kxh7 19.Qh2+ Kg8 20.Rh1 Bxg5+ 21.Nxg5 Qxg5+ 22.f4 Qxf4+ 23.Qxf4 Bxe4 24.Qxe4 1-0
GM Judita Polgar - GM Garry Kasparov, Russia vs. Russia vs the Rest of the World, Moscow 2002
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.O-O Nxe4 5.d4 Nd6 6.Bxc6 dxc6 7.dxe5 Nf5 8.Qxd8+ Kxd8 9.Nc3 h6 10.Rd1+ Ke8 11.h3 Be7 12.Ne2 Nh4 13.Nxh4 Bxh4 14.Be3 Bf5 15.Nd4 Bh7 16.g4 Be7 17.Kg2 h5 18.Nf5 Bf8 19.Kf3 Bg6 20.Rd2 hxg4+ 21.hxg4 Rh3+ 22.Kg2 Rh7 23.Kg3 f6 24.Bf4 Bxf5 25.gxf5 fxe5 26.Re1 Bd6 27.Bxe5 Kd7 28.c4 c5 29.Bxd6 cxd6 30.Re6 Rah8 31.Rexd6+ Kc8 32.R2d5 Rh3+ 33.Kg2 Rh2+ 34.Kf3 R2h3+ 35.Ke4 b6 36.Rc6+ Kb8 37.Rd7 Vh2 38.Ke3 Rf8 39.Rcc7 Rxf5 40.Rb7+ Kc8 41.Rdc7+ Kd8 42.Rxg7 Kc8 1-0
GM David Navara (2708)
David Navara (25) has been for several years the best Czech chessplayer. He regularly represents at chess Olympics and international tournaments and also at the annual festivals of the Prague Chess Society. He has played matches with Anatoly Karpov, Viktor Kortchnoi, Vladimir Kramnik, Nigel Short, Boris Gelfand , Alexei Shirov and Vasily Ivanchuk. His best rating in the world chart was thirteen position (from 1st January till 30th June 2007), now he is 27th (ELO 2708).
In January 2007 he played his first super tournament (Corus 2007 in Wijk aan Zee), where he managed to draw with black pieces with then the world champion Vladimir Kramnik as well as with then the highest positioned player of the world chart and current world champion,Vishy Anand, and also with the last year number one rating player,Veselin Topalov; in addition he managed to beat today's number one rating Magnus Carlsen. In summer 2007 he won the prestigious rapid chess tournament, which was taking place in German Mainz, on which 762 chess players, inclusive of grandmasters from the world first ten, where competing. During European Individual Chess Championship in Budva he shared 1st to 11th place and he qualified for the World Cup.
After finishing his grammar-school he was accepted to four different universities. He chose to study Logic at the Philosophical Faculty of the Charles University and he is still a student there. He is single and he lives home with his parents and a younger brother. His hobby is sociology. He likes to watch historical documents on TV. Sport, apart from chess (if chess is a sport), is of no interest to him.
At the end of January he appeared on popular TV show Vsechnoparty, which can be watched on line at Czech television webpage.