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| Hungarian player. International Grandmaster, 1991. World Under 14 Champion, 1990. Hungarian Champion, 1991. Trivia by Bill Wall Youngest grandmaster at age 15 years, 4 months, and 27 days (Fischer was a grandmaster at age 15 years, 6 months, and 1 day after the Portoroz Inerzonal in 1958). She made her third and final GM norm by winning the Hungarian Championship in 1991. In 1986 at the age of 9 she won the unrated section of the New York Open, winning 7 games and drawing one game. At age 11 she was rated 2350 and earned an International Master title - younger than Fischer or Kasparov. At age 13 she was the World Under 14 Champion for boys and FIDE's highest rated woman. Chess Career 1988 first girl to win the World U-12 Boys 1988 Member of champion Hungarian women's team in Thessaloniki Olymiad with 12.5/13 points 1990 won the world U-14 Boys championship 1990 Member of champion Hungarian women's team in Novi Sad Olympiad 1993 won match with former world champion Boris Spassky 1994 and 1996, played first board for Hungarian Olympiad team. 1st 1988 Egilsstadhir 1st 1990 the Under-14 World Championship 1st 1990 Amsterdam 1st 1991 Hungarian Super-Championship 1st 1991 Magyarorszag 1st 1992 Brno 1st 1992 Shanghai 1st 1992/93 Hastings 1st 1993 Budapest 1st 1994 Madrid 1st 1994 Monaco 1st 1995 Prague 1st 1995 Stornoway 1st 1995 Aruba 1st 1996 Leon 1st 1996 Sao Polo 1st 1998 Hoovegeen 1st 1998 Halifa 1st 1998 Kona 1st 1998 Hoogeveen 1st 2000 Malmo 1st 2000 Japfa 1st 2000 Najdorf [Thanks to Jan Newton] |
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