Susan Polgar
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Susan Polgar is a Hungarian chess player born in 1969 who became one of the most accomplished female chess players in history. She is notable for breaking barriers in a traditionally male-dominated sport and demonstrating that women could compete at the highest levels of chess.
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- Born
- 1969-04-19
- Works
- 14
Top works
- Step-By-step Guide to Using Tactics and Combinations the Polgar Way
- Sofia Polgar
- Breaking Through
- Learn Chess the Right Way! : Book 2
- Learn Chess the Right Way : Book 5
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5 total works indexed
- “Mini-mental state”
· 1975 · cited 67,641x
- DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data
· 2016 · cited 31,374x
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Susan Polgar (born April 19, 1969, as Polgár Zsuzsanna and often known as Zsuzsa Polgár) is a Hungarian-American chess grandmaster. Polgár was Women's World Chess Champion from 1996 to 1999. On FIDE's Elo rating system list of July 1984, at the age of 15, she became the top-ranked female chess player in the world. In 1991, she became the third woman to be awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE. She won eleven medals at the Women's Chess Olympiad (4 gold, 4 silver, and 3 bronze).
Also a trainer, writer and promoter, Polgar sponsors various chess tournaments for young players and is the head of the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence (SPICE) at Webster University. She served as the Chairperson or co-chair of the FIDE Commission for Women's Chess from 2008 until late 2018.
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1969 births20th-century American sportswomen20th-century Hungarian sportswomen21st-century American Jews21st-century American women21st-century Hungarian women writersAmerican chess playersAmerican chess writersAmerican EsperantistsAmerican female chess playersAmerican people of Hungarian-Jewish descentAmerican women academics