The Budapest Fringe Festival is an annual event held every spring in Budapest, Hungary. It is a fringe festival, on the model of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The Budapest Fringe Festival was first held in 2006. The festival brings more than 500 artists in about 50 shows to produce a wide range of interesting works in alternative theatre, dance, music and comedy outside the mainstream.
The Budapest Fringe Festival was first held between 31 March and 2 April in 2006 in seven different locations in the centre of the Hungarian capital, Budapest. [1]
| Year | Name | City | Notable acts |
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| 2006 [2] | Budapest Fringe Festival | Budapest |
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| 2007 [3] | Budapest Fringe Festival | Budapest |
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| 2008 [4] | Budapest Fringe Festival | Budapest |
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| 2009 [5] [6] | Budapest Fringe Festival | Budapest | collection of previous performances |
| 2010 [7] | Pécs Fringe Festival | Pécs | |
| 2011 [8] | Budapest Fringe Festival | Budapest |
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| 2012 | Kecskemét Fringe Festival | Kecskemét |
Judit Polgár is a Hungarian chess grandmaster, widely regarded as the strongest female chess player of all time. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, at the time the youngest to have done so, breaking the record previously held by former world champion Bobby Fischer. She was the youngest player ever to break into the FIDE top 100 players rating list, ranking No. 55 in the January 1989 rating list, at the age of 12.
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