10/12/2014 – "The longest time a female player has been consecutively ranked chess world number one is 25 years and 1 month and was achieved by Judit Polgar". That's what the official certificate of the Guinness organisation reads. Thousands of chess lovers filled the Budapest Palace of Arts completely, to honor their queen at the Aquaprofit Polgar Chess Festival 2014. Big pictorial report + video.
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Thousands of people gathered to see again at the Chess Festival organized
by the greatest female chess player of all time Judit Polgar who just announced
her retirement from competitive chess a month ago. The festival offered
a full day family programs in the Budapest Palace of Arts, where children
were invited to the 3D Chess Palace to participate in interactive chess
tutoring, competitions and arts and crafts.
Chess Palace 3D, representing the Judit Polgar’s
educational program, became part of the
National Curriculum in Hungary. Judit, her children, and her sister, Sofia
pose in the Palace.
The giant figures of the Chess Palace world
became favorite of the children at the festival as well
The Chess Festival provided a great opportunity to parents who wished to
introduce their children to educational chess. The entertaining programs
included a fairy tale chess game with the fantasy cartoon character Shrek
and Fiona, played by Karoly Gesztesi, one of the most popular actors in
Hungary, and Judit Polgar. Among the prominent guests were Erno Rubik, the
inventor of the famous Rubik’s Cube and Zurab Azmaiparashvili, the
recently elected ECU president, and many other Olympic and world champion
athletes, artists, and leaders of the business and political world. The
festival ended with a simul given by Judit Polgar, who has been leading
the FIDE world rankings for 25 years, setting a Guinness record also announced
at the festival.
Judit Polgar with her children Oliver and Hanna
at the Aquaprofit-Polgar Chess Festival 2014
Playing Shrek Chess: Károly Gesztesi,
one of the most popular Hungarian actors,
as Shrek and Judit Polgar as Fiona
Smart kids are good at it but can Ogres play
chess? GM Peter Lékó doing the commentary
In a European Union cultural exchange project
a group of Swedish girls visited the festival
and played a simul against the great Hungarian chess talents Gellért
and Kata Karácsonyi
Judit Polgar and Tamás Szucs, Head of
European Commission Representation
in Hungary, open the Generations Chess Clash.
The Aquaprofit-Polgar Chess Festival was under the patronage of Androulla
Vassiliou, Member of the European Commission. In the Generations Chess Clash
families took on families in a multi-generational chess competition, sponsored
by the European Commission. Each team was composed of a child, a parent
and a grandparent.
1.d4 Nf6: Judit Polgar playing a blitz game
with Tamás Nádasi, Chairman of
the Board of Aquaprofit, the title sponsor of the festival
Children’s choir performing Zigzeg Chess,
the official song of the Chess Palace Program
Judit Polgar with Erno Rubik who invented
the world famous
Rubik’s Cube exactly 40 years ago this year
Chess Palace and Rubik’s Cube –
two excellent tool to improve logical skills in children
Play it by trust: GMs Judit Polgar and Balogh
Csaba playing trust chess created by Yoko Ono
At the Chess Palace Promenade kids had a chance
to personalise the tools of the
Educational Chess Curriculum, including chess characters, crowns, flags
and more
Judit Polgar with the Fide Caissa Award and
two of her gold medals from Chess Olympiads
The official certificate of the Guinness record set by Judit Polgar. It
reads: "The longest time a female player has been consecutively ranked
chess world number one is 25 years and 1 month and was achieved by Judit
Polgar (Hungary) from 1 February 1989 to 1 March 2014 – Officially
Amazing".
Stand and mascot for the U-16 Youth Chess Olympiad
to be held in Gyor, Hungary
in December this year – having Judit Polgar as great ambassador of
the event
Three members of the silver medal winning Hungarian
team from the Chess
Olympiad in Tromso: GM Peter Leko, GM Judit Polgar, and GM Csaba Balogh
Live Chess choreography on stage
Judit Polgar opening the Chess Palace International
Teacher’s Congress
Judit with Anna Dienes, principal of the primary
reference school of the Chess Palace program
Signing a momento for William Wirth, the former
director of the Swiss financial
services company Credit Suisse that supported many great chess events in
the past
Judit giving a simul to celebrities, artists,
athletes, businessmen and politicians
Sofia Polgar as an artist at work during the
simul
Video: Shrek Chess at the Aquaprofit Polgar
Chess Festival 2014
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