Pioneer Wojtek, was: RE: [lbo-talk] it's inevitable

[ravi]

At around 4/5/06 6:56 am, Jerry Monaco wrote:
> 
> Judit Polgar is actually the youngest of three sisters and by father
> is the best chess player of them all.  She is no doubt the best woman
>  player of all time and has been in the top elite of grandmaster 
> superstars since the 1990s. It is interesting that she is also the
> one woman that refuses to play in all women events.
> 

Here's more on her record, courtesy Wikipedia and other sources:

1) Ranked #14 in the world -- April 2006 FIDE rating list
2) GM at 15 years 4 months -- youngest among all men and women
3) Ranked #10 in the world -- April 2003 FIDE (before her break)
4) 2003: came in #2 (Corus), 1 point ahead of world champion Kramnik
5) Ranked #8 in the world (July 2005 FIDE)
6) Has defeated Karpov, Viswanathan Anand (also Spassky, Short)
7) IM title at age 11 (younger than Fischer or Kasparov)
8) Defeated Kasparov: Russia vs Rest of World, 2002 (rapid chess)


> What incident are you talking about when you said that Judit was 
> "cheated" of a victory by Kasparov?  I don't remember it.

Linares, Spain: Judit aged 17, Kasparov, world champion, age 31

http://www.controltheweb.com/polgar/

=> The Washington Post/Kavalek:
=>
=> "In 1994 in Linares, Spain, Kasparov played a knight move against
=> Judit Polgar and removed his fingers from that piece. But after he
=> saw that he might lose material, he took the knight back and made a
=> different move. His act was caught on camera by a Spanish television
=> crew." - Excerpted from Washington Post Chess (Kavalek) July 3, 2000;
=> Page C13

[To be fair there are more charitable to Kasparov versions of the story,
but I am not going to help propagate them, at least not here]

	--ravi

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