21 Apr '13 07:19>
Since I have been away from chess for 30 years, I haven't paid too much attention to who were the top players in the world. I was searching out information on the women in chess and came across this little bit of information that I thought was interesting.
Judit Polgár is the number one rated woman chess player and the only woman to have won a game from a current world number one player, and has defeated nine current or former world champions in either rapid or classical chess: Anatoli Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov, Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander Khalifman, and Rustam Kasimdzhanov. However, she has never bothered to compete for the Women's World Chess Championship
Judit Polgár is the number one rated woman chess player and the only woman to have won a game from a current world number one player, and has defeated nine current or former world champions in either rapid or classical chess: Anatoli Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov, Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander Khalifman, and Rustam Kasimdzhanov. However, she has never bothered to compete for the Women's World Chess Championship