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Old September 2nd 07, 08:04 PM posted to rec.games.chess.politics,rec.games.chess.misc,alt.chess,soc.culture.magyar
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Default False Claims by Polgar

You can see her career clearly on http://www.chessgames.com which has
987 of her games.

Starting in 1984, she played hundreds of games every year in top level
competition. 1984 was the year when she went from Class A to
International Master and became temporarily the highest rated woman in
the world.

From then until she reached the legal age of 21, she was heavily

involved in competition. However, after she was no longer under
parental control, she rarely played in big tournaments. Most of her
games starting in 1993 were exhibition events, computer events,
simultaneous exhibitions, blindfold events with Melody Amber, and
women's events, whereas under her father she had refused to play in
women's events.

Finally, after winning the Woman's World Championship in 1996, she
stopped playing chess altogether.

Take a look at:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess...e=38&pid=15162

During the 8 years from 1996 to 2004 she only played four games of
chess. These were in the Israel Chess League, except that she played
two computer games.

She finally started playing again in 2004 with the Woman's World Chess
Olympiad. Since then, she has played occasionally due to the influence
of Mr. Truong, but almost all of her games have been simultaneous
exhibitions, computer games or exhibition games, not games in
competitive tournaments.

Sam Sloan

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