"Will a woman ever become World Chess Champion?" - An interview with Judit Polgar

by ChessBase
8/25/2025 – Can a woman ever become the best chess player in the world? To find out, chess streamers Emily Higgins and Dina Belenkaya asked the woman who has come closest to winning the world title: Judit Polgar. The only woman to have made it into the world's top ten, she was the undisputed number one in women's chess from 1989 until her retirement from tournament chess in 2014. In an interview with Higgins and Belenkaya, Polgar talks about her career, discrimination in chess, training, sibling rivalry, and her role as a mother. | Photo: Screenshot aus dem Video
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00:00 – Intro
00:43 – Introduction
01:14 – Discrimination in Chess
01:56 – What Holds Women Back
04:40 – Should There Be Women’s Chess Titles?
05:58 – Personal Victory
08:17 – Rivalry Between Sisters
10:38 – Geniuses Aren’t Born, They’re Made
13:30 – Do Judit's children play chess?
17:02 – Balancing Competition and Motherhood
20:26 – Chess and Social Media
22:09 – New Interests
23:31 – Outro

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Topics: Dina Belenkaya, Emily Higgins, Judit Polgar
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