This is the prodigy player who reigns as in 'Queen's Gambit'

She is a prodigy, a woman who breaks waters surrounded by men who underestimate her, a young chess champion who gives checkmate to rivals considered unbeatable: we are talking about Beth Harmon, the protagonist of the

But we are also talking about someone in real life.

Her name is

nicknamed the 'Queen of Chess'.

The Hungarian chess player has made history several times: first in 1991 when, at the age of 15, she became the youngest person ever designated as the International Grandmaster of the board;

again in 2002, and again in 2005, when she was the

(ranked only by the eight best chess players in the world).

She is, to date, the only player who has been in the global top 10.

She has always refused to compete in the women's division, in part to show that women can of course be on the same level of genius.

“A lot of guys still say to me, 'Ok, you were an exception and that proves the rule, where's the next one?'

To which I reply: 'So far I am exceptional, but I will definitely not be the only one as the years progress,' she told The Guardian in 2012.

The series '

' or '

' is based on a novel of the same name published in 1983, when Polgar was 7, and inspired by three totemic chess figures: Bobby Fischer, Boris Spassky and Anatoly Karpov.

Judit Polgar in 2016. She is currently dedicated to promoting chess and is the mother of two.Evan Agostini for Invision via AP

Of course there are glaring differences between the character of Harmon and the real life 'Queen of Chess'.

Polgar has not had addictions nor is she an orphan;

his father is the one who taught him to play chess, like his sisters Susan, the eldest (and who is also a Grandmaster), and Sofía, the middle sister (who is an International Master, the second highest in the world).

But the parallels between Harmon (played by British-Argentine-American Anya Taylor-Joy) and Polgar are many, starting with the Cold War context in which Russian rivals were especially fearsome.

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The Hungarian was fascinated by chess from a very young age;

He said that

, like Beth Harmon.

At 12, Polgar began winning international tournaments.

As for Harmon, there was no lack of sexist hurdles in those competitions.

Polgar recently said that the machismo portrayed in '

even falls short of what she experienced in real life.

"[Beth] was treated very well," Polgar told The New York Times.

"For me it was common for opponents to refuse to shake my hand," he added.

Older sister Susan Polgar recently said that a player threw pieces of the board at her when she beat him as a child, and that one of her opponents tried to sexually abuse her as a teenager (and # 1 in the

of women) during a tournament.

Like Harmon with Vasily Borgov, Polgar's biggest rival on the board was also a Russian, world champion Garry Kasparov.

Judit Polgar in a 1998 game against Russia's Anatoly Karpov, who was world champion that year.

Anya Taylor-Joy as Beth Harmon and Marcin Dorocinski as Vasily Borgov in a scene from "The Queen's Gambit." Phil Bray / Netflix /

Before playing against her, Kasparov stated that the female mind had "imperfections" and that

long

.

He said that Polgar was very talented but that he seemed like a "circus puppet."

He first faced Kasparov when she was 17 years old, in a 1994 tournament that became controversial because the Russian grabbed a chess piece, the knight, and released it without moving it.

The rules state that if you touch a piece you must move it.

The Hungarian chess player pointed out the incident, but the referee ignored her.

Kasparov won, not before criticizing Polgar.

A Spanish television station that was filming during the tournament later showed that Polgar was right.

Seven years later, in 2002 and after other encounters between the two, Polgar defeated Kasparov.

After 45 moves, the Russian saw that he was not going to be able to win and withdrew from that game (although he did shake his hand).

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"Confidence is lost before him, because he acts like his opponent must know before the game that he is going to win," Polgar told the BBC.

"But I was willing to risk it, he made mistakes and I knew how to take advantage of it," she added.

It was the first time that a

A short time later, Kasparov (who is now a friend of Polgar and was a consultant for the Netflix series to portray chess well) wrote that he withdrew what he had said about her and about female chess players.

Based on Polgar's style, Kasparov wrote, "if 'play like a girl' means something in chess what it means is relentless aggression."

 With information from the BBC, The Guardian and The New York Times

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