We followed yesterday\u2019s news with great pride: on January 27, 2026, the world premiere of the documentary about the life of chess legend Judit Polg\u00e1r\u2014a longtime supporter of our Foundation\u2014was held at the Sundance Film Festival in the United States.<\/p>\n
Oscar-Nominated Director and Never-Before-Seen footage
\n<\/b> The production titled Queen of Chess<\/i> does not merely present an athlete\u2019s career; it carries a universal message of perseverance and the realization of dreams that can serve as an example for all our students. The 93-minute film is directed by the Oscar-nominated American filmmaker Rory Kennedy. A unique feature of the film is that it contains a wealth of never-before-seen archival footage from the life of the Polg\u00e1r family, ranging from Budapest behind the Iron Curtain to the behind-the-scenes secrets of the most exciting international competitions.<\/p>\n
When can we see it?
\n<\/b> Following its festival appearances, the film will almost immediately embark on its world tour. Good news for domestic fans and the Foundation community: The film will debut on the most popular streaming platform on February 6, 2026, making it available to everyone with Hungarian subtitles.<\/p>\n
The Sundance Film Festival writes about the film:<\/b><\/p>\n
A Hungarian girl dreams of conquering international men\u2019s chess. After a 15-year battle against world champion Garry Kasparov, Judit Polg\u00e1r revolutionizes the sport\u2019s patriarchal culture to become one of the greatest chess prodigies in history and the greatest woman chess player of all time.<\/p>\n
Veteran documentarian Rory Kennedy returns to the Sundance Film Festival with this empowering portrait tracing Judit Polg\u00e1r\u2019s trailblazing story. Raised by her father in communist Hungary as part of an unusual experiment to cultivate genius, Polg\u00e1r quickly made her mark in the world of chess. By the age of 12, she was the number one female player in the world; less than four years later, she broke Bobby Fischer\u2019s legendary record to become the youngest grandmaster in history. But Polg\u00e1r was determined to refute the ingrained sexism of the game by beating the greatest chess player in the world, Garry Kasparov. Queen of Chess <\/em>chronicles their historic, long-running battle of the sexes, punctuated with a dynamic visual aesthetic, a rich archive, and a rousing girl-power soundtrack.<\/p>\n For our Foundation, this film is not just about a distant global success, as we have been in close contact with Judit Polg\u00e1r and her team for years. Our relationship goes far beyond mere support: year after year, the university students of the Cs\u00e1nyi Foundation participate as volunteers, and our Foundation\u2019s chess team as competitors in the simultaneous matches at one of Judit\u2019s most important passion projects, the Global Chess Festival.<\/p>\n Source & Photo:<\/b> Judit Polg\u00e1r\u2019s Official Facebook Page<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We followed yesterday\u2019s news with great pride: on January 27, 2026, the world premiere of the documentary about the life…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":115949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-egyeb","category-kiemelt-hireink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csanyialapitvany.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csanyialapitvany.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csanyialapitvany.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csanyialapitvany.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csanyialapitvany.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.csanyialapitvany.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116032,"href":"https:\/\/www.csanyialapitvany.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115948\/revisions\/116032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csanyialapitvany.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csanyialapitvany.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csanyialapitvany.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csanyialapitvany.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}