Photo credit: Mauricio Macri

JUDITH POLGAR, GREATEST WOMAN PLAYER OF ALL TIME, RETIRES AT 38 … DEFEATED KASPAROV, SPASSKY AND CARLSEN … TROMSO, NORWAY  …  The London Times [behind pay-wall] exclusively reported today that it is all over … JUDITH POLGAR, EASILY THE GREATEST WOMAN PLAYER EVER, IS TO RETIRE FOLLOWING TOMORROW’S FINAL ROUND WORLD TEAM OLYMPIAD GAME.  Polgar defeated hundreds of grandmasters in her professional chess career, including world chess champions Carlsen, Spassky, Kasparov … She now  tands alone in world chess history–retires with two children at age 38 … chess teaching of young people on the horizon for the rest of her life.

Judit Polgár sweeps a simul in 1992. Photo credit: Ed Yourdon

— Jude Acers