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Hungarian chess prodigy Judit Polgár challenges champion Garry Kasparov and her controlling father over 15 years, breaking gender barriers to become the greatest female player ever and one of history's finest.

Stars: Tatev Abrahamyam. Harut Akopyan. Garry Kasparov
Transcript
00:03Chess was a male-dominated sport.
00:07Women were not allowed to play in male tournaments.
00:11There is the pure mental ability needed to understand chess,
00:16and there is the personality required to become good at the game.
00:18Women don't have either of these sides.
00:21Twelve-year-old Hungarian schoolgirl Judith Polgar
00:24has won a major international chess tournament and made history.
00:28In the beginning, everybody underestimated me.
00:32Oh, they're terrible chess players.
00:39Laszlo Polgar, together with his wife Clara,
00:42decided that they were going to be raising geniuses with this experiment.
00:47When I was five years old, I started my chess training.
00:51This twelve-year-old girl with the open ponytail,
00:54and she is just dominating.
00:55I was a killer, attacker.
00:58She was a top player, but still a female player.
01:02In 1994, Judith Polgar was going to play Gary Kasparov.
01:05You have the feeling that he wants to eat you up alive.
01:08Just a psychological warfare.
01:10The toughest kind of competition in purest form.
01:13The first time we had a world champion
01:16facing against the world's best female player.
01:20Is she going to be killed?
01:23Let's go!
01:26Playing just battles like playing Larry Bird or Michael Jordan.
01:30I was dreaming to win against Gary Kasparov.
01:34We played several games against each other.
01:36She was going blow for blow with the greatest chess player of all time.
01:41This is a dogfight.
01:43The game is never finished.
01:47Until it really finished.
01:48Hey!
01:50Your heart is blue!
02:05Your heart is blue!
02:09The end.
02:09The end of the whole world is blue!
02:09The end of the whole world is red.
02:09I'm just going to move all the players.
02:09I can see you as hard as you can.
02:10I feelы as hard as you can.
02:10I can see you in the dark as you can.
02:10You can see you.
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