Hungary's PM nominates Judit Polgár for presidency
holy shit judit polgar is going to be president of hungary www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Ben69it's really funny for the headline to describe her as a prodigy. i suppose it's not technically inaccurate but would we, at this point, call Messi a football prodigy?
beating kasparov at attaining high political office, too
Nick Wise21Also, Ernő Rubik is still alive?!
Meh Pluribus Unum (Alli) 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈4Irl timeline cleanse level event.
Piatto Delgatto3There's a name I haven't heard in a long, long time. Lol
bguizzet.bsky.social3did you see the documentary about her and kasparov from earlier this year? not sure if it was general release it just netflix, but it’s good!
Quinta Jurecic919path to american reconstruction: 1. find presidential candidate named bob america 2. after victory, appoint mia hamm to the supreme court
Christopher Mims83WHAT. Listen, if you haven't seen it, run, don't walk, to watch this documentary about her, she's incredible: (it's on Netflix) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_o...
Zoomer Antimillenarian70I want ppl to look at what's happening in Hungary and understand that their happiness can be ours. We can and will rip up this shithole regime and the criminal network around it by the roots and we are gonna have fun doing it.
Julian Sanchez65Finally, a politician who really does play 12-D chess.
Paul Bernal41Damn, a politician who really can play 5D-chess
Elon Green31**sprints in** checkmate, Rod Dreher
Dr Francis Young22The obvious choice was surely Éva Pócs? Folklorists make great ceremonial presidents
Peter Maass11Lol I wrote about Judit Polgar for The Washington Post in 1992, when she was a 15-year old chess prodigy! More than three decades ago I noted that "the story of the Polgar family stretches the bounds of reality and even imagination" -- and reader, I was right! www.washingtonpost.com/archive/life...
Sam Wang9This is going to lead to either an explosion of metaphors about three-dimensional chess and exclamations of checkmate, or the death of them. Also maybe actual democracy in Hungary!
Yosha Iglesias7She declined. Of course. A Queen cannot become President.
🇭🇺♟️Chess legend Judit Polgár, featured in Netflix’s Queen of Chess, is the ruling Tisza party’s pick for President of Hungary. If she accepts, she'd become Hungary’s first Jewish president, succeeding ousted Orbán loyalist Tamás Sulyok—whose father was actually a Nazi. Quite a symbolic change.
Martin 马丁 Holterman5What fascinates me is that Magyar seems to have announced her name before talking to her. Is that right? And does anyone actually know anything about her politics?
Vossfox4And Fidesz will cry: George Soros!
Edgar2Why is the "Jewish" part so important?
🇨🇦 Patrick Koppes 🇨🇦 Bring it!1Mind blowing 🤯 ! Hungary is on the right path isn’t!
Szabolcs Panyi43Judit Polgár thanked PM Péter Magyar for the gesture but declined the nomination for President of Hungary following attacks on social media, some of them antisemitic: “I do not feel that I have the strength to assume the historic responsibility of uniting a divided nation.”
Joris Luyendijk36This would be so fantastic.
Ton Aarts12We have 4 Hungarian friends over, who all cheered when reading this news yesterday. (Before explaining to the rest it was actually a symbolic function. But another very remarkable thing in present Hungary without Orbán)
MePu2Another Zionist at the helm of a European nation? No thanks.
