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''QUEEN'S GAMBIT'' deja vu for chess champ Judit Polgar's real life story shares striking similarities with Netflix show.
BUDAPEST : WATCHING THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT sparked deja vu for Hungarian chess great ''Judit Polgar'', regarded as the game's best ever female player.
Like the show's fictional heroine Beth, an orphaned chess prodigy, Polgar tackled not just opponents across the board but gender stereotypes in the male-dominated sport. ''I played all my life with male competitors and sometimes, was the only female player at a tournament,'' she said.
Now 44, Polgar became the youngest ever international grandmaster aged 15, breaking US legend Bobby Fischer's record, and went on to beat a string of male world champions.
''The first grandmaster I beat was hitting his head in the elevator after the game, another defeated opponent refused to shake hands and stormed away from the board,'' she recalled.
Similar to the Queen's Gambit finale, in which Beth overcomes Russian power house Vasily Borgov, Polgar had her own tussle with Russia's Gary Kasparov, widely considered the finest player in history,
At the 1988 Chess Olympiad, Judit, then aged 12, and her older sisters Susan and Sofia, helped Hungary win the women's gold, impressing the onlooking Kasparov, who was world champion at the time.
But Kasparov, who had previously called Polgar a ''circus puppet'' and said women chess players should stick to having children, dismissed the idea of a woman ever beating the world's number one.
''Women are not capable of handling that kind of pressure, so I'm almost sure it's impossible,'' he told Hungarian journalists then, according to Polgar.
Fourteen years later, however, the she got her revenge, beating Kasparov in Moscow in what she called a ''historic'' moment.
''I had a deja-vu feeling when watching Beth sitting opposite Borgov, tense and afraid, thinking that perhaps she could not handle it. That is what I felt against Kasparov,'' she said.
Long since reconciled with Kasparov, who was a technical adviser on ''The Queen's Gambit,'' Polgar said she particularly enjoyed the show's ''attention to detail'' although she considered some aspects of it ''unrealistic.''
Beth's struggles with addiction to pills and alcohol, ''would make it near impossible to reach the top in modern chess.''
Meanwhile sexism is more rife in chess than was depicted on the screen, said Polagr. ''Girls for sure are going to be handling many more gender-based comments and nasty looks than Beth received,'' she added. ''Usually, I don't have very ugly situations but there were times when they said, 'OK, she was just lucky' so I had to prove myself more than if I were a boy.''
Polgar remembers her crowning achievement as finishing second in a prestigious tournament in the Netherlands in 2002, ahead of the world champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia. ''That was a tournament of my life; to prove how good I can be,'' she said.
By the time Polgar retired from competition in 2014 to focus on raising her family, the Hungarian had reigned for 25 years at the top of the women's rankings and reached a peak of eighth in the overall rating.
But she says her aim was never to be the best female player in the world. ''If I had just wanted that, I probably would not have stayed a number one as long as I did. My goal was going further and being a top female player was just a milestone on the way. [AFP]
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