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'I don't have much time for my private life,' she conceded. Thousands of chess books crowd the house, and the sisters play for 5 or 6 hours a day, Zsofia said. They went to school only once a year for exams, concentrating on chess instead. Their parents, both teachers, taught the girls other subjects at home. 'When we were about 8, we were beating him already,' she said.

The Polgar girls each started playing chess with their father at about age 4, said Judit's sister, Zsofia, who at 18 is working toward the grandmaster title. His daughter, Zita, now 19, is a close friend of Fischer. 'I remember when she was 8 or 9, she played my daughter in the elementary Hungarian championships, and they finished the game in 40 minutes while the others played three hours,' he said. She's very fast and has always been very fast. She analyzes variations and sub-variations,' said Peter Rajcsanyi, the match's marketing director. She rejects women's tournaments because they no longer challenge her.Ĭompared with Spassky, 'Judit is very well prepared with openings and has a wider spectrum of variations. The youngest person ever to become a grandmaster, she received the title at the age of 15 years and 5 months-a month younger than Bobby Fischer. Judit is ranked 53rd among the world's top 'men' chess players and expects to move up because of her victory. During the two-week match, 'I got the impression that I was a punched sack, and Judit was just beating me.'

I'm a grandfather, and Judit is a granddaughter,' he said. 'As a representative of the older generation, I had to prove something. That, Spassky said, was a psychological strain.

But the former champ is 56-fully 40 years older than his foe.

Hungarian psychologist how to raise a genius book