Judit polgar vs alexei shirov biography

Role model

As has been documented many times by ChessBase, most recently here, Grandmaster Judit Polgár has numerous chess accomplishments. My co-author, Woman Grandmaster Sabina-Francesca Foişor, benefited from Judit’s trailblazing in chess.

When Sabina began her chess career in her home country of Romania in 1994, only a handful of women held the “men’s” grandmaster title. Sabina looked to Judit Polgár and to her own mother, Cristina Foişor, for female role models of excellence in chess.

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Cristina and her husband Ovidiu each earned the International Master title and Sabina’s younger sister Veronica is a Woman International Master. Thus, the Foişors, like the Polgárs, are a chess-playing family.

About Judit as one of her role models, Sabina wrote, “Judit Polgár has been an inspiration to chess-playing girls and women around the world.

She has won games against every single elite player of her time (from Karpov to Carlsen) while demonstrating tactical brilliancy similar to Alekhine