They Said a Woman Could Never Do This.. ♕ Judit Polgar vs. Garry Kasparov ♔ Historical Chess ASMR

In 2002 a crazy chess match took place in Moscow, Russia. On one team we saw the best russian players - on the opposing team we saw the best players from... The rest of the world! Yes Russia really did play a match against the entire world. In fact USSR had done so on two previous occasions in 1970 and 1984 and won both. But in 2002 the story was a little different. The Soviet Union had collapsed and many players from ex-soviet countries were playing for the "world team". This included the Hungarian star Judit Polgar, who defeated the reigning world number 1 Garry Kasparov in their game. This was a historical moment not only because it helped the world team on to victory, but even more so because it was the first time a woman had ever defeated number 1. Indeed it was widely believed (almost universally accepted) that such a thing was simply impossible. Unthinkable! But Judit did it anyway. This video is not meant to imply that Judit is an overall better chessplayer than Garry Kasparov. Their individual score is extremely one-sided at +12-1=4 for Kasparov. In fact Kasparov has an overwhelming score against everyone and is widely considered to be the best chessplayer of all time (although he may yet be surpassed by Magnus Carlsen if the latter can hold his current form for about another decade). The point of the video is to show that Judit did what nobody thought could be done. I hope that girls and women watching this will understand that chess is absolutely not a "man's game" and that there is no reason why they shouldn't share the beauty and excitement that can be found on the 64 squares. I also hope to cast some light on Judit and her many, many achievements.

Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess player. She is generally considered the strongest female chess player of all time. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, at the time the youngest to have done so, breaking the record previously held by former World Champion Bobby Fischer. She was the youngest player ever to break into the FIDE top 100 players rating list, ranking No. 55 in the January 1989 rating list, at the age of 12. She is the only woman to be a serious candidate for the World Chess Championship, in which she participated in 2005; she had previously participated in large, 100+ player knockout tournaments for the world championship. She is also the only woman to have surpassed 2700 Elo, reaching a peak world ranking of No. 8 in 2004 and peak rating of 2735 in 2005.She is the only woman to be ranked in the top ten of all chess players, first reaching that ranking in 1996. She was the No. 1 rated woman in the world from January 1989 until her retirement on 13 August 2014.

She has won or shared first in the chess tournaments of Hastings 1993, Madrid 1994, León 1996, U.S. Open 1998, Hoogeveen 1999, Sigeman & Co 2000, Japfa 2000, and the Najdorf Memorial 2000.

Polgár is the only woman to have won a game against a reigning world number one player, and has defeated eleven current or former world champions in either rapid or classical chess: Magnus Carlsen, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov, Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander Khalifman, and Rustam Kasimdzhanov.

Please note that this is an ASMR video. It is meant to relax the viewer and help them drift off to sleep. There I speak in a soft voice, occasionally dropping to a whisper. If you find this annoying please go watch GothamChess' fantastic video on the same topic instead. You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvJHCIkPb7g

I should also mention that this topic is controversial to some. Please know that the comment section is not a place to push any type of agenda. I will delete anything I find even the least bit inappropriate. You are welcome to share your opinions as long as you do so in a respectful manner.

[Event "Russia - The Rest of the World"]
[Site "Moscow RUS"]
[Date "2002.09.09"]
[EventDate "2002.09.08"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Judit Polgar"]
[Black "Garry Kasparov"]
[ECO "C67"]
[WhiteElo "2681"]
[BlackElo "2838"]
[PlyCount "84"]

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dxc6 7. dxe5 Nf5 8. Qxd8+ Kxd8 9. Nc3 h6 10. Rd1+ Ke8 11. h3
Be7 12. Ne2 Nh4 13. Nxh4 Bxh4 14. Be3 Bf5 15. Nd4 Bh7 16. g4
Be7 17. Kg2 h5 18. Nf5 Bf8 19. Kf3 Bg6 20. Rd2 hxg4+ 21. hxg4
Rh3+ 22. Kg2 Rh7 23. Kg3 f6 24. Bf4 Bxf5 25. gxf5 fxe5 26. Re1
Bd6 27. Bxe5 Kd7 28. c4 c5 29. Bxd6 cxd6 30. Re6 Rah8
31. Rexd6+ Kc8 32. R2d5 Rh3+ 33. Kg2 Rh2+ 34. Kf3 R2h3+
35. Ke4 b6 36. Rc6+ Kb8 37. Rd7 Rh2 38. Ke3 Rf8 39. Rcc7 Rxf5
40. Rb7+ Kc8 41. Rdc7+ Kd8 42. Rxg7 Kc8 1-0