Queen of Chess

Queen of Chess (2026) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Across 93 minutes it follows Judit Polgár, the Hungarian girl raised from infancy to win on territory men had fenced off — the top of the chessboard.

Director Rory Kennedy tells it without polish. There is the father who bet his daughters could be engineered into prodigies through sheer discipline. There are the years when tournaments treated her presence as a clerical error. And there is the long collision with Garry Kasparov, the world champion who once said out loud that women simply couldn't compete at the highest level. Polgár answered him over the board, not in interviews.

Both Judit and Kasparov appear on camera, so the people who lived it carry the story instead of a narrator. You don't need to know a gambit from a castling move to be pulled in — it's really about stubbornness, the cost of talent, and breaking a rule that was never written with you in mind. Stream Queen of Chess (2026) online on iFILM.