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They received resistance from Hungarian authorities as home-schooling was not a "socialist" approach. László also taught his three daughters the international language Esperanto. He and his wife Klára educated their three daughters at home, with chess as the specialist subject. "Geniuses are made, not born," was László's thesis.
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Polgár and her two older sisters, Grandmaster Susan and International Master Sofia, were part of an educational experiment carried out by their father, László Polgár, in an attempt to prove that children could make exceptional achievements if trained in a specialist subject from a very early age.
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Polgár was born on 23 July 1976 in Budapest, to a Hungarian-Jewish family. On 20 August 2015, she received Hungary's highest decoration, the Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary. In June 2015, Polgár was elected as the new captain and head coach of the Hungarian national men's team. On 13 August 2014, she announced her retirement from competitive chess. Polgár is the only woman to have won a game against a reigning world number one player, and has defeated eleven current or former world champions in either rapid or classical chess: Magnus Carlsen, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov, Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander Khalifman, and Rustam Kasimdzhanov. Open 1998, Hoogeveen 1999, Sigeman & Co 2000, Japfa 2000, and the Najdorf Memorial 2000. She has won or shared first in the chess tournaments of Hastings 1993, Madrid 1994, León 1996, U.S. 1 rated woman in the world from January 1989 until her retirement on 13 August 2014. She is the only woman to be ranked in the top ten of all chess players, first reaching that ranking in 1996. She is also the only woman to have surpassed 2700 Elo, reaching a peak world ranking of No. She is the only woman to be a serious candidate for the World Chess Championship, in which she participated in 2005 she had previously participated in large, 100+ player knockout tournaments for the world championship. 55 in the January 1989 rating list, at the age of 12. She was the youngest player ever to break into the FIDE top 100 players rating list, ranking No. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, at the time the youngest to have done so, breaking the record previously held by former World Champion Bobby Fischer. Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster, generally considered the strongest female chess player of all time.