Word: polgar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Samuel Reshevsky, when he was six, toured his native Poland playing two dozen opponents simultaneously and rarely losing. At 14, Bobby Fischer, the game's reclusive genius, won both the U.S. junior and senior championships. But none of these men quite prepared the chess world for the triple-threat Polgar sisters of Budapest, who last week took the New York Open Chess Tournament by carefully calculated storm...