László Polgár
Actor · b. 1946
László Polgár (born 11 May 1946) is a Hungarian chess teacher and educational psychologist. He is the father of the famous Polgár sisters: Zsuzsa, Zsófia, and Judit, whom he raised to be chess prodigies, with Judit and Zsuzsa becoming the best and second-best female chess players in the world, respectively.
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Movie7.5DocumentaryA Hungarian girl dreams of conquering international men’s chess. After a 15-year battle against world champion Garry Kasparov and her domineering father, Judit Polgár revolutionizes the sport’s patriarchal culture to become one of the greatest chess prodigies in history and the greatest woman chess player of all time.
Queen of Chess
2026 · 77 votes
Movie10.0The extraordinary story of three Hungarian-Jewish sisters who were raised in communist Budapest of the 1970s to become chess masters.