The Netflix documentary ‘Queen of Chess’ does a good job of showcasing Polgár’s talents, but fails to examine the fact that ...
The chess prodigy's rise to stardom unfolds in director Rory Kennedy's new film 'Queen of Chess' ...
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‘Queen of chess’: Netflix shows how Judit Polgár became No. 1 female player at 12 and silenced critics
Image Credit: Judit Polgár (Image: Netflix) In 1989, a 12-year-old girl from Hungary made chess history. Judit Polgár became the No. 1 female chess player in the world. She achieved that title by ...
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Netflix’s ‘Queen of Chess’ tracks the rise of Judit Polgar — but leaves her Jewishness out of it
Watching Queen of Chess, Rory Kennedy’s Netflix documentary about the top-ranked woman chess player and her long contest with world champion Garry Kasparov, I was reminded — of all things — of ...
Nona Gaprindashvili became the first woman Grandmaster in 1978 and a dominant world champion. The Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit mentioned her but inaccurately claimed she had never faced men.
To capture the zeitgeist of that era, there are clips of male players like Bobby Fischer dismissing the abilities of female ...
She has also hosted the Global Chess Festival and is behind the charity The Judit Polgar Chess Foundation, which seeks to promote education, science, culture and sport through che ...
Polgár became the youngest-ever chess Grandmaster when she was 15 years old.
She was raised as part of a prodigy-breeding psychological experiment, took on the chess patriarchy and beat her idol Garry Kasparov. So why isn’t there more depth to this documentary? Judit Polgár ...
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