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Susan Polgar

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Susan Polgar

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Also known as Polgár Zsuzsanna, Zsuzsa Polgár, Polgar Zsuzsanna, Zsuzsa Polgar

Hungarian chess player (born 1969)

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Susan Polgar, born Zsuzsanna Polgár in Budapest in 1969, is a female chess player, writer, and Esperantist. She holds the chess titles of Grandmaster, Woman International Master, International Master, and Woman Grandmaster. Polgar has represented both the United States and Hungary in chess and participated in the Women's Chess Olympiad 1988. She is the daughter of László Polgár and the sister of Judit Polgár and Sofia Polgar.

Polgar is married to Paul Truong and has worked as an employee at Texas Tech University and Webster University. She was educated at Texas Tech University and works in New York City. She speaks Hungarian, German, Russian, and Esperanto, with Hungarian as her native language.

As an author, Polgar has published works including *Step-By-step Guide to Using Tactics and Combinations the Polgar Way*, *Sofia Polgar*, *Breaking Through*, *Learn Chess the Right Way! : Book 2*, and *Learn Chess the Right Way : Book 5*.

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  • 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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Encyclopedic overview

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Susan Polgar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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