| The eldest of the celebrated Polgar sisters, Susan
was born on April 19, 1969. A child prodigy by
age four, she was the first woman to earn the men’s
grandmaster title and the first woman to qualify
for the men’s world championship zonal tournament.
An accomplished chess teacher and writer, Susan
runs her own chess center in Queens, NY and has
an excellent website: http://www.susanpolgar.com/
Susan won the Woman’s World Championship
in 1996, but her other chess accomplishments
run far deeper than that. Here are just a few:
* Won the Budapest Girls’ Championship
under eleven at the age of four
* Winner of six Olympic Medals (three gold,
two silver, and one bronze)
* Two-time winner of the Elite Chess Oscar and
winner of the prestigious 2003 Grandmaster of
the Year Award.
* Number one ranked woman player in the world
at the age of fifteen, she stayed in the top
three for nineteen years straight
Susan is considered by the chess industry as
a “Pioneer in Women’s Chess,” an
Ambassador to the game, and a true role model
to millions of women and children. She has graced
the covers of more than one hundred magazines
and has been the topic of tens of thousands of
articles worldwide. Susan also founded the SUSAN
POLGAR FOUNDATION, a nonprofit organization to
help promote chess for women and youth in America.
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