New Delhi, Feb. 22 -- Judit Polgar was the No.1 ranked woman chess player in the world for over 25 years-from the age of 13 in 1989 till 2014 when she retired. She also became the youngest chess grandmaster (GM) at the age of 15 years and four months in 1991 when she beat American Bobby Fischer's record by a month (her record has since been beaten many times over).

But Hungarian Polgar's greatest achievement, beyond the numbers and the statistics, was that she competed against men in a sport that was, till then, deeply misogynistic. Not only did she shake the world order in the sport through the 1990s and 2000s but she also inspired a generation of women players to look beyond false narratives of gender superiority.

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