Did Polgar beat Kasparov?

However, during the 2002 Russia versus the Rest of the World tournament, Polgar got the ultimate revenge by beating Kasparov. She was the first woman to do so. Judit Polgar spoke to Witness about their rivalry and that historic moment in the sport of chess.
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How many times Judit Polgar beat Kasparov?

Chessgames.com - Chess Database Community. Classical games: Garry Kasparov beat Judit Polgar 7 to 0, with 2 draws. Including rapid/exhibition games: Garry Kasparov beat Judit Polgar 12 to 1, with 4 draws. Only rapid/exhibition games: Garry Kasparov beat Judit Polgar 5 to 1, with 2 draws.
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Who defeated Kasparov?

On May 11, 1997, chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov resigns after 19 moves in a game against Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer developed by scientists at IBM. This was the sixth and final game of their match, which Kasparov lost two games to one, with three draws.
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What was Judit Polgar highest rating?

From the time Polgar was 12, she was the top-ranked female player in the world for more than 26 years, all the way up to her retirement in 2014. Her peak ranking was No. 8 in the world and her peak rating was 2735.
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Is Magnus Carlsen better than Judit Polgar?

LIFETIME RECORD: Classical games: Magnus Carlsen beat Judit Polgar 2 to 0, with 1 draw. Including rapid/exhibition games: Magnus Carlsen beat Judit Polgar 11 to 1, with 5 draws. Only rapid/exhibition games: Magnus Carlsen beat Judit Polgar 9 to 1, with 4 draws.
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What is Judit Polgar doing now?

I set the chess clock aside but I have stayed by the board both literally and figuratively speaking: I'm now focusing on my family, the international promotion of the sport, book writing and the Judit Polgar Chess Foundation, which I established in 2012. First, I finished a three-volume book about my career until now.
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Is Queen's Gambit a true story?

The series is fiction, but there is a real pioneering chess champion named Nona Gaprindashvili, the first woman to be named a grandmaster. Now 80 years old and living in Tbilisi, Georgia, she was pained to learn that the television show had erased her many successes against male opponents.
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How high is Magnus Carlsen's IQ?

Magnus Carlsen (IQ: 190)
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Who is the youngest GM in chess?

List of youngest grandmasters. Since 1950, when the Grandmaster (GM) title was introduced by FIDE, one measure of chess prodigies is the age at which they gain the GM title. Below are players who have held the record for the youngest grandmaster. The record is currently held by Abhimanyu Mishra.
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How many times Kasparov lost?

In their five world championship matches, Kasparov had 21 wins, 19 losses, and 104 draws in 144 games.
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When did Judit beat Kasparov?

However, during the 2002 Russia versus the Rest of the World tournament, Polgar got the ultimate revenge by beating Kasparov. She was the first woman to do so. Judit Polgar spoke to Witness about their rivalry and that historic moment in the sport of chess.
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Who has beaten Deep Blue?

In the final game of a six-game match, world chess champion Garry Kasparov triumphs over Deep Blue, IBM's chess-playing computer, and wins the match, 4-2.
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When did Judit Polgar retire?

8/13/2014 – It came pretty much out of the blue: the most successful, easily the strongest female chess player in the history of the game today announced her retirement in the London Times.
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What is Stephen Hawking IQ level?

Albert Einstein is believed to have had the same IQ as Professor Stephen Hawking, 160.
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What is Albert Einstein's IQ level?

According to estimates by means of biographical data, Albert Einstein's IQ has been estimated to sit anywhere between 160 and 180. That would firmly place the physicist in the genius territory. However, he wouldn't exactly be among the top-scoring crowd.
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Is Borgov a real chess player?

Borislav Ivkov (12 November 1933 – 14 February 2022) was a Serbian chess Grandmaster. He was a World championship candidate in 1965, and played in four more Interzonal tournaments, in 1967, 1970, 1973, and 1979.
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Did Bobby Fischer ever lose?

In the 1962/63 US Championship, Fischer lost to Edmar Mednis in round one. It was his first loss ever in a US Championship.
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Is Beth Harmon a grandmaster?

Elizabeth Harmon is a fictional chess grandmaster and the main protagonist in the Walter Tevis novel The Queen's Gambit and the Netflix drama miniseries of the same name, in which she is portrayed by Anya Taylor-Joy. Taylor-Joy's performance as Beth was critically acclaimed.
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Is Beth Harmon a real chess player?

Actually, Harmon does not exist. She is the fictional star of The Queen's Gambit, the hit Netflix series based on a 1983 novel by Walter Tevis that has chess aficionados recalling, in Chess.com's words, “The real-life Beth Harmon‎.”
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Who was the best female chess player in the 60s?

Kira Zvorykina was one of the strongest female players in the world during the 1950s and early 1960s. She won the Soviet Women's Chess Championship three times (1951, 1953, 1956) and tied twice but lost in playoffs (1957 and 1958).
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Who is the best Polgar sister?

László Polgár (born 11 May 1946) is a Hungarian chess teacher and educational psychologist. He is the father of the famous Polgár sisters: Zsuzsa, Zsófia, and Judit, whom he raised to be chess prodigies, with Judit and Zsuzsa becoming the best and second-best female chess players in the world, respectively.
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