Who did Polgár break the record of youngest Grandmaster from?
Anatoly Karpov
Bobby Fischer
Garry Kasparov
Magnus Carlsen
Answer
Bobby Fischer held the record for being the youngest Grandmaster in the history of chess, achieving this title at the age of 15 years and 6 months in 1958. However, Judit Polgár, a Hungarian chess prodigy, surpassed this record in 1991 when she became a Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, making her the youngest Grandmaster in chess history.
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