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Originally Posted by barrysloate
Judit Polgar was the strongest woman's player ever. In fact, when she won a game against Garry Kasparov, she became the first woman ever to beat a male world champion in any competitive sport (chess is a quasi-sport).
Hou Yifan is now the strongest woman player, but she is currently a Rhodes Scholar and is not playing as much as she once did.
The best women can compete with the top male grandmasters, but not quite at the world championship level.
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Judit’s father was the “Urban Meyer” of grandmaster fathers. She and her sisters were raised in a chess boot camp from a very young age.
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