article_snippet.sent: Hungarian Judit Polgar, above, the former women’s world champion, beat Nigel Short eight classical games to three in total .
article_snippet.sent: my wife [Rea] added: ‘Judit Polgar, the former women’s world champion, beat Nigel Short eight classical games to three in total, with five draws.
article_snippet.sent: Less than two per cent of grandmasters are female, but Hungarian Miss Polgar broke into the upper echelons of the game when Hungarian Miss Polgar became one of the youngest grandmasters of all time at the age of 15.