Judit Polgár won the very first chess tournament she ever played in. She was 6 years old. The Hungarian-born prodigy's impressive rise to chess stardom, which included becoming the world's top-ranked ...

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A documentary tells the story of the chess player who became the youngest grandmaster, male or female, in the history of the game.

To capture the zeitgeist of that era, there are clips of male players like Bobby Fischer dismissing the abilities of female players. “Women are terrible chess players,” Fischer smirks in a clip.

The documentary, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last month, features interviews with Polgár's entire family, including her father, who spearheaded her intense training Queen of Chess is ...