Zsófia Polgár

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Zsófia Polgár ([ˈʒoːfiɒ ˈpolgaːr], born November 2, 1974) is a Hungarian-Israeli chess player. She is sometimes known by the familiar form of her name, Zsófi , and in some contexts (e.g. the FIDE rating list) by the anglicised form Sofia. She is an International Master, and is the middle sister of Grandmasters Susan and Judit Polgar.

In 1989, at the age of 14, she stunned the chess world by her performance in a tournament in Rome, which became known as the "Sack of Rome". She won the tournament, which included several strong Grandmasters, with a score of 8.5 out of 9, producing an unprecedented effective ELO rating of 2928. As of 2006, this is by far the strongest tournament result by any woman ever, and one of the few strongest tournament performances, regardless of the gender of the player.

On February 7, 1999 she married Georgian-Israeli Grandmaster Yona Kosashvili and moved to Israel. They now have a son, Alon. For a time she ranked as the 6th-strongest female player in the world. She played one FIDE-rated game in July, 2005. Prior to that, her last FIDE-rated game was in September 2003.[1]