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Hungarian Susan Polgar earned chess’ highest honor at age 15. She and her family faced antisemitism and harassment from the ruling Communist Party, and sexism from opponents and officials in chess.

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida - A Hungarian native woman is trying to set a world record by playing 326 games of chess simultaneously in Palm Beach Gardens. Chessmaster Susan Polgar who now lives in New ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – It was one of the most brazen moves in the chess world since the Najdorf Sicilian Defense, perhaps even the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit. Fresh off her second straight national ...

The Hungarian-American GM's terrific 9.5/10 showing was the kind of crushing dominance that Javokhir Sindarov has had in the ...

The world's first female grandmaster was ready to deliver her regular Thursday-night lecture. Susan Polgar was perfumed, coiffed, made-up and dressed in a sleek black pantsuit, an elegant contrast to ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. For Susan Polgar, getting back home to St. Louis has turned ...

Decorated chess player Polgar offers a granular, behind-the-scenes look at her path to success in this illuminating if somewhat narrowly focused memoir. Polgar was born in Hungary in 1969. Her father, ...

Chess — it’s not just a man’s game anymore, and, ladies, you have Susan Polgar to thank. Polgar paved the way for women in the once male-dominated game. In 1986, she broke the gender barrier by ...

Susan Polgar was perfumed, coiffed, made-up and dressed in a sleek black pantsuit, an elegant contrast to the boys and young men hunched over their boards in her Queens, New York, chess club. "I have ...