Looking back at the Official Chess Records

When I see Garry Kasparov playing this week after a 12 year layoff, it prompted me to look up my own records. I retired from competitive chess in 1996 after I won the Women’s World Championship, completing the 1st ever World Chess Triple Crown (World Rapid, Blitz, Classical Championships).

Women’s Candidates Final 1995

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total
Maia Chiburdanidze (Georgia)	½	½	0	0	½	0	0	1½
Zsuzsa Polgar (HUN)	½	½	1	1	½	1	1	5½

Women’s World Championship Match 1996

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	Total
Zsuzsa Polgar (Hungary)	0	½	½	1	1	½	1	1	½	½	1	0	1	8½
Xie Jun (China)	1	½	½	0	0	½	0	0	½	½	0	1	0	4½

In 2002, the Executive Director of the USCF, Mr. Frank Niro, convinced me to come out of retirement to help lead the US Women’s Olympiad Team in 2004. I agreed. So after 8.5 years of retirement, I played at the 2004 Chess Olympiad in Calvia, Spain where I won the multiple medals (Gold and Silver), including best overall performance and most points scored. I also maintained a world chess record of 56 consecutive game at the Olympiad, all on board 1, without a single loss. That was my last FIDE rated event.

So after a very long layoff, I played at the 2004 Chess Olympiad in Calvia, Spain where I won the multiple medals (Gold and Silver), including best overall performance and most points scored. That was my last FIDE rated event.

Final FIDE rated event, October 2004

Best players according to Rating Performance after 14 rounds

http://chess-results.com/tnr1882.aspx

I was very rusty in the beginning. I also never played with time control G90 + 30″ increment. After I got used to it, I finished with 5.5 in the final 6 games for the best performance of the Women’s Olympiad, winning personal Gold for top performance and total points scored.

Personal performance

Name Polgar Zsuzsa
Title GM
Rating 2567
Rating international 2567
Performance rating 2622
FIDE rtg +/- 10,0
Points 10,5
Rank 1
Federation USA
Fide-ID 700088
Year of birth 1969

With the support from the Mayor’s Office in NY City, and the Sports Commissioner, the NY City Mayor’s Cup took place at the NY Athletic Club in the end of June 2006. The average rating of the field I faced was 2687.2. At that time, this was the strongest round robin tournament in US history, with members of the US Olympiad Teams (with the exception of Alex Stripunsky who took the place of Hikaru Nakamura who was not available).

This was my final USCF rated event, June 2006.

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 Pair | Player Name                     |Total|Round|Round|Round|Round|Round|Round|Round|Round|Round|Round| 
 Num  | USCF ID / Rtg (Pre->Post)       | Pts |  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  | 10  | 
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    1 | GATA KAMSKY                     |6.5  |D   6|L   4|W   2|W   5|D   3|W   6|D   4|W   2|D   5|D   3|
   NY | 12528459 / R: 2735   ->2740     |N:S  |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
      |            Q: 2714   ->2715     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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    2 | SUSAN ZSUZSA POLGAR             |6.0  |D   4|W   5|L   1|D   3|D   6|W   4|W   5|L   1|D   3|W   6|
   MO | 12452240 / R: 2557   ->2597     |N:S  |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
      |            Q: 2611   ->2627     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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    3 | ALEXANDER ONISCHUK              |5.5  |D   5|D   6|D   4|D   2|D   1|D   5|W   6|D   4|D   2|D   1|
   TX | 12625186 / R: 2717   ->2712     |N:S  |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
      |            Q: 2663   ->2661     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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    4 | BORIS GULKO                     |5.0  |D   2|W   1|D   3|D   6|W   5|L   2|D   1|D   3|D   6|L   5|
   NJ | 12473035 / R: 2658   ->2660     |N:S  |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
      |            Q: 2694   ->2679     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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    5 | ILDAR IBRAGIMOV                 |4.0  |D   3|L   2|W   6|L   1|L   4|D   3|L   2|D   6|D   1|W   4|
   CT | 12576446 / R: 2672   ->2657     |N:S  |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
      |            Q: 2551   ->2554     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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    6 | ALEXANDER STRIPUNSKY            |3.0  |D   1|D   3|L   5|D   4|D   2|L   1|L   3|D   5|D   4|L   2|
   NJ | 12715435 / R: 2654   ->2631     |N:S  |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
      |            Q: 2519   ->2515     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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