The native form of this personal name is Polgár Zsuzsanna. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Susan Polgar
Polgar in 2018
Country
Hungary United States (2002–2019)[1][2]
Born
(1969-04-19) April 19, 1969 (age 55) Budapest, Hungary
Title
Grandmaster (1991)
Women's World Champion
1996–1999
FIDE rating
2577 (April 2024) [inactive]
Peak rating
2577 (January 2005)
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.[3]
^"Transfers in 2002". FIDE.
^"Transfers in 2019". FIDE.
^"Commission for Women's Chess". FIDE Directory. FIDE. Archived from the original on December 26, 2010. Retrieved August 2, 2011.
SusanPolgar (born April 19, 1969, as Polgár Zsuzsanna and often known as Zsuzsa Polgár) is a Hungarian-American chess grandmaster. Polgár was Women's...
female chess figure, she was elected to the Board of Directors of the SusanPolgar Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit aiming to promote chess, with all its...
won the SusanPolgar National Open. In 2016, at the SPFNO 2016: U14 Girls, Botez placed fourth in the tournament and 13th in the 2016 SusanPolgar Foundation...
Sofia Polgar (Hungarian: Polgár Zsófia, pronounced [ˈpolɡaːr ˈʒoːfiɒ]; born November 2, 1974) is a Hungarian and Israeli chess player, teacher, and artist...
Women's World Chess Champion SusanPolgár. He is also Polgár's business manager, and vice-president of the SusanPolgar Foundation. He organized and/or...
compete in high-level open tournaments. The Polgar sisters ended Soviet domination of women's chess as SusanPolgar became No. 1 in the world among women in...
to SusanPolgar of Hungary (8½–4½) but regained the title in 1999 by defeating another championship finalist, Alisa Galliamova (8½–6½), after Polgar refused...
being the first woman to achieve a GM norm a year earlier. In 1991, SusanPolgar became the first woman to achieve the Grandmaster title through a full...
finish with only one loss. In 2009, Rensch earned his final IM norm at SusanPolgar's SPICE CUP by achieving a draw against Ray Robson, who went on to achieve...
performance rating of 2782, also earning her final GM norm. Along with SusanPolgar and Magnus Carlsen, she is one of three players to win the World Rapid...
Servers". Retrieved 18 September 2022. Polgar, Susan (2005). "The new age of Internet chess" (PDF). SusanPolgar on chess. CyberCafes. Retrieved 18 September...
becomes the youngest IM in the world". 2019. Retrieved December 8, 2019. SusanPolgar (November 9, 2019). "Meet the world's youngest IM, Abhimanyu Mishra of...
would have qualified again and beaten Fischer in 1978. According to SusanPolgar, commentators are divided, with a slight majority believing Fischer would...
in Budapest, Hungary. Both Rapid and Blitz Championships were won by SusanPolgar. The 2001 victory by Garry Kasparov in the FIDE World Cup of Rapid Chess...
Anand - Carlsen, where he was the official commentator along with GM SusanPolgar. Relatives of Chessplayers Bharath Subramaniyam - IM at the age of 11...
singer who represented Germany in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020 SusanPolgar (born 1969), Hungarian-American grandmaster chess player Susie Porter...
would have qualified again and beaten Fischer in 1978. According to SusanPolgar, commentators are divided, with a slight majority believing Fischer would...
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