Judit Polgár

Judit Polgár is widely considered the greatest female chess player of all time. She regularly appears in international media, gives public speeches and plays high-profile chess games. She is the Education Ambassador for Chess.com, the largest global platform for chess with 100 million members. Her extraordinary life story and sporting prowess has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Times and Monocle. In recent years, her story has found a vast new audience since the release of Netflix's 2020 hit The Queen's Gambit which echoed her experience as a young female chess prodigy. In July 2026, she was asked to be Hungary's next president, but declined the role stating that the country's divisions were too great.