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Susan Polgar
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Susan Polgar (born April 19, 1969, as Polgr Zsuzsanna and often known as
Zsuzsa Polgr) is a Hungarian-born American chess Grandmaster. She is famous for
having been a child prodigy at chess, for being a pioneer for women in chess, and for
being an advocate for chess in education. She is an Olympic and World chess
champion, a chess teacher, coach, writer and promoter and the head of the Susan
Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence (SPICE)[1] at Webster University as well as the
head coach for the 2011 and 2012 National Championship college chess teams at
Texas Tech University and the 2013 and 2014 National Championship teams at
Webster University.[2][3] She is the oldest of the famous "Polgr sisters": Zsuzsa,
Zsfia, and Judit. She was the first female to earn the grandmaster title through
tournament play, and is credited with breaking a number of gender barriers in chess.
On the July 1984 FIDE Rating List, at the age of 15, she became the top-ranked
woman player in the world, and remained ranked in the top three for the next 23 years.
She was also the first woman in history to break the gender barrier by qualifying for the
1986 "Men's" World Championship.[4] She was the Women's World Chess
Champion from 1996 to 1999 (in Classical time control). She won the World Blitz and
Rapid Championships in 1992. In October 2005, Polgar had an Elo rating of 2577,
making her the second-ranked woman in the world at the time, after her sister Judit.
Polgar went on to win ten Olympic medals (5 gold, 4 silver and 1 bronze) and four
Women's World Championships. She has not played in official competition since
2006.
In 1997, Polgar founded the Polgar Chess Center in Forest Hills, New York to give
chess training to children.[5] The Polgar Chess Center closed in 2009 following her
relocation to Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. In 2002 she established the
Susan Polgar Foundation. During the past 12 years, her foundation has sponsored the
National Invitational for Girls, National Open Championship for Boys and Girls, World
Open Championship for Boys and Girls, All-Star Girl's Chess Team, NY City
Mayor's Cup Invitational, Tri-State Scholastic Chess Challenge, SPICE Cup and a
series of Get Smart Play Chess scholastic chess tournaments. She founded the SPICE
Institute in Texas in 2007 and began coaching the Texas Tech Knight Raiders in 2007
as well. As of January 2009, she has been the Co-Chairperson of the Commission for
Women's Chess for the World Chess Federation FIDE.[6]

Susan Polgar

Susan Polgar
Full name

Zsuzsanna Polgr

Country

Hungary
United States

Born

April 19, 1969

Budapest, Hungary

Title

Grandmaster

Women's
World
Champion

199699

FIDE rating 2577

(http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?
event=700088) (March 2015)
[inactive]
Peak rating 2577 (January 2005)

Contents
1 Personal life
2 Chess career
2.1 Composition
2.2 American career and Olympic medals
2.3 Texas Tech Knight Raiders
2.4 Webster University
3 Notable chess games
4 Susan Polgar Foundation
5 SPICE Institute and SPICE Cup
6 Bibliography
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7 US Chess Federation and FIDE

8 References
9 External links

Personal life
She was born and brought up in Budapest, Hungary, to a Hungarian Jewish family.[7] In 1994,
Polgar married computer consultant Jacob Shutzman, and moved to New York. They have two
sons, Tom (born 1999) and Leeam (born 2000). She later divorced. In December 2006, she
married her longtime business manager and friend, Paul Truong.[8][9] She now lives in suburban St.
Louis, Missouri.

Chess career
Polgar and her two younger sisters, Grandmaster Judit
and International Master Sofia, were part of an
educational experiment carried out by their father Lszl
Polgr, who sought to prove that children could make
exceptional achievements if trained in a specialist subject
Susan Polgar wedding photo (2006)
from a very early age. "Geniuses are made, not born,"
was Lszl's thesis.[10] He and his wife Klara educated
their three daughters at home, with chess as the specialist subject. In 2010, National Geographic
published an hour-long documentary[11] with Susan Polgar as the main subject. The father also
taught his three daughters Esperanto. Most of her family eventually emigrated to Israel, but Susan
Polgar moved to New York after marrying an American citizen in 1994. Members of the Polgar
family, who are Jewish, perished in the Holocaust, and her grandmother was a survivor of
Judit Polgr and Sofia Polgar (1988)

Auschwitz.[12]

At age 4, Susan Polgar won her first chess tournament, the Budapest Girls' Under-11 Championship, with a 100 score. In 1982, at the age
of 12, she won the World Under 16 (Girls) Championship. Despite restrictions on her freedom to play in international tournaments, by 1984
at age 15 Polgar had become the top-rated female chess player in the world.[13]
In November 1986, FIDE decided to grant 100 bonus Elo rating points to all active female players except Polgar, which knocked her from
the top spot in the January 1987 FIDE ratings list. The rationale was that the FIDE ratings of women were not commensurate with the ratings
of the men because the women tended to play in women-only tournaments, Polgar being an exception because up to that point she had
played mainly against men. The statistical evidence supporting this decision was disputed because the data on which it was based was a small
subset of the available data, and Polgar and others alleged that the move was politically motivated. They said it had been contrived to
displace her, a non-Soviet, from the top spot in favor of Maia Chiburdanidze, the reigning Women's World Champion.
In January 1991, Polgar became the first woman to earn the Grandmaster title in the conventional way of achieving three GM norms and a
rating over 2500, though Nona Gaprindashvili was awarded the title earlier by special judgment of FIDE. In 1992, Polgar won both the
Women's World Blitz and the Women's World Rapid Championship.[14]
Polgar had tended to avoid women-only tournaments, but she abandoned this when she entered the 1993 cycle for the Women's World
Championship. She was eliminated at the candidates' final match with Nana Ioseliani; after the match was drawn she lost on the drawing of
lots. She became the Women's World Champion at her second attempt in 1996. Two years later, her title defense against Xie Jun of China
was scheduled to take place in November 1998. However, Polgar requested a postponement because she was pregnant and FIDE had
been unable to find a satisfactory sponsor. Ultimately, in 1999, a match was arranged, but under conditions to which Polgar objected firstly
because she had recently had a child, Tom, and had not had sufficient time to recuperate, and secondly because the match was to be held
entirely in China, the home country of her challenger. She also wanted a significantly larger prize fund.[15]

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When Polgar refused to play under these conditions, FIDE declared that she had forfeited the title,[16][17] and instead organized a match
between Xie Jun and Alisa Galliamova for the Women's World Chess Championship, which was won by Xie Jun.[18] Polgar sued in the
Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland for monetary damages and the restoration of her title. In March 2001, the case was
settled, with Polgar withdrawing her claims and FIDE agreeing to pay Polgar's attorney's fees in the amount of $25,000.[19] Since Xie Jun
had already been crowned Women's World Champion, FIDE could not restore the title to Polgar. Polgar has not participated in subsequent
Women's World Championship cycles.

Composition
Susan Polgar composed her first chess problem (see diagram) at the age of four. She is

Zsuzsa Polgr
First chess composition, age 4
Source unknown, 1973

considered the youngest composer of a published chess problem.[20] Formerly, the record
was held by Elliot Franklin Eichholtz.

American career and Olympic medals

The United States Chess Federation named Polgar "Grandmaster of the Year" in 2003, the
first time a woman has won that honor. In that same year (2003), Polgar also became the first
woman to win the US Open Blitz Championship, against a field which included seven
grandmasters. She won that title again in 2005 and in 2006.
She helped train and played the top board for the United States women's team at the 2004
Chess Olympiad held in October in Majorca, Spain. Overall, the team won the Silver Medal,
but Polgar won an individual gold medal for achieving the highest performance rating in the
women's event and the highest point total. She has a total of ten Olympiad Medals: five Gold,
four Silver, and one Bronze. She has played 56 games in the Olympiads, never losing a single
game.
In July 2005, Polgar gave a large simultaneous exhibition in Palm Beach, Florida, breaking four
world records: the largest number of simultaneous games played (326, with 309 won, 14
drawn, and 3 lost); consecutive games played (1,131); highest number of games won (1,112);

1
a

White to move, mate in 2

Solution: 1. Kd1 Kf1 2. Qe1 mate

and highest percentage of wins (96.93%).[21]

In October 2005, Polgar joined former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and former World
Champion Anatoly Karpov in Lindsborg, Kansas to promote "Chess For Peace." There, Polgar
participated in the second Clash of the Titans - Battle of the Genders match against Karpov at the
same location, with Gorbachev making the first move for Karpov. The match with Karpov ended
in a 33 tie, with each player winning two games and two draws. Their first match had taken place
in September 2004. That also ended up in a 33 tie.
In June 2006, Polgar organized and played in the 2006 New York City Mayor's Cup, a 30minute competition and the highest-rated double round robin tournament in US history. She
finished second, behind Gata Kamsky and ahead of Alexander Onischuk, Boris Gulko, Ildar
Ibragimov, and Alex Stripunsky. In July 2006, Polgar represented the US in a side event to the
Football World Cup in Dresden, Germany. She easily won the event by defeating International
Master Elisabeth Phtz in the final.

Polgar in a simultaneous exhibition

Texas Tech Knight Raiders

In 2007, Susan Polgar signed on as the head coach for the Texas Tech Knight Raiders chess team. In 2010, she became the first woman to
lead a men's Division I team to the Final Four.[22] In April 2011, the Texas Tech Knight Raiders became the best college chess team in the
nation by winning the President's Cup: The Final Four in College Chess.[23] As the Knight Raiders coach, Polgar again broke another gender
barrier as the first ever female head coach to lead a men's Division I team to the national title.[22]

Webster University

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Susan Polgar and the SPICE program joined Webster University in suburban St. Louis in 2012.[24][25] Webster won the 2013 Final 4 of
College Chess, also known as the President's Cup. As a result, Polgar was recognized as 2012-13 College Coach of the Year by Final 4
organizer Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.

Notable chess games

Here is a brilliancy which Polgar won at age 16:[26]
Zsuzsa PolgarHardicsay, Hungarian Team Championship 1985 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.Nf3 g6 7.Bf4 a6
8.e4 Bg7 9.Qa4+ Bd7 10.Qb3 Bg4?! 11.Qxb7 Bxf3 Hardicsay had won a game a few months before after 12.gxf3 Nh5, when Black has
good compensation for the sacrificed pawn after either 13.Be3 Nd7 or 13.Bg3 Nxg3 14.hxg3 Nd7. 12.Qxa8! Nxe4 13.Rc1! This was a
theoretical novelty; Black had been thought to be better after 13.Nxe4 Bxe4. 13...Bd4 After 13...Nxc3 14.bxc3 Be4 15.f3 Bf5 16.g4,
Black would have no good retreat for his bishop, e.g. 16...Bd7 17.Bxd6. 14.Rc2 Nxf2?! 14...Nxc3 15.gxf3! also leaves White with a large
advantage. 15.Rxf2 Bxf2+ 16.Kxf2 Bg4 (see diagram) 17.Bb5+! axb5 18.Re1+ Kf8 If 18...Kd7, 19.Qb7+ Qc7 20.Re7+! wins the
queen. 19.Bh6+ Kg8 (see diagram) 20.Re7! Paralyzing Black and stopping any counterplay with ...Qh4+. The rook is immune because
20...Qxe7 21.Qxb8+ forces mate. 20...Bd7 21.Qxb8! Qxb8 22.Ne4! 10 Although Black is up a queen for a knight, he cannot stop
23.Nf6#.[27]:pp. 234237[28]:game 117
PolgarHardicsay, 1985
a

1
a

Position after 16...Bg4

Position after 19...Kg8

1
a

Final position

Susan Polgar Foundation

The Susan Polgar Foundation is a 501(c)(3) corporation established in 2002 and supported by charitable donations. "The mission of the
Susan Polgar Foundation is to promote chess, with all its educational, social, and competitive benefits throughout the United States, for
young people of all ages, especially girls."[29]

SPICE Institute and SPICE Cup

On May 12, 2007, Polgar was the undergraduate commencement speaker at Texas Tech University. She was awarded an honorary
Doctorate degree. On the same day, as reported on the LubbockOnline website, it was announced that she would become the coach of the
Texas Tech chess team and would be the director of the new Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence (SPICE).[30] In 2008, SPICE
announced a $320,000 pledge from a private donor, for TTU chess scholarships over the next five years.[31]
In 2007 Texas Tech and Susan Polgar hosted the first SPICE Cup which has since become the highest rated international round robin chess
tournament held in the United States.[32] The SPICE Cup draws tens of millions of viewers worldwide, who are able to follow the event
online.[33] In October 2010, the SPICE Cup became the highest rated international invitational chess tournament in US History.[34] In 2008,
the SPICE Cup rated category 15. It jumped to category 16 in 2009. SPICE Cup 2010 rated category 16 (2631 average FIDE rating). For
2011 the SPICE Cup has a preliminary two 2700+ player for the first time with negotiations in process with four or five other similarly
ranked players, and will potentially rate 17/18.[35]
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Bibliography
Polgar has written several books, often in conjunction with Paul Truong, her business manager and (later) husband:
Queen of the Kings Game (as Zsuzsa Polgar; with Jacob Shutzman) (1997) ISBN 0-9657059-7-8
Teach Yourself Chess in 24 Hours (with Paul Truong) (2003) ISBN 0-02-864408-5
A World Champion's Guide to Chess (with Paul Truong) (2005) ISBN 0-8129-3653-1
Breaking Through (with Paul Truong) (2005) ISBN 1-8574-4381-0
Chess Tactics for Champions (with Paul Truong) (2006) ISBN 0-8129-3671-X
Rich As A King: How the Wisdom of Chess Can Make You a Grandmaster of Investing (with Douglas Goldstein, CFP) (2014)
ISBN 978-1-63047-097-5 paperback
Polgar is also a chess journalist, with columns in Chess Life, Chess Life for Kids, ChessCafe, Chess Horizons, Georgia Chess,
Chessville, Empire Chess, School Mates, Europe Echecs, etc., and she publishes a blog titled Chess Daily News with daily updates
about chess news and daily chess exercise problems. She has released a series of 14 instructional chess DVDs.

US Chess Federation and FIDE

She was briefly a member of the executive board of the United States Chess Federation from 2007 to 2009; however, a lawsuit instigated
by the defeated candidate led to political infighting and extended litigation, and resulted in a settlement whereby Polgar severed her affiliation
with the USCF and is now a "playing non-member".
In December 2006, she announced that she would run for election to the executive board of the United States Chess Federation.[36] Polgar,
Randy Bauer, and Paul Truongthree of four of Polgar's slatewere elected to four-year terms. She was elected as the first ever chairman
of the USCF.[37][38][39]
On October 2, 2007, one of the candidates for the Executive Board position, who had been defeated by Susan Polgar, filed a lawsuit
seeking to overturn the results of the 2007 election, alleging misconduct.[40] Polgar denied any wrongdoing.[41][42] Polgar and Truong filed
suit against the USCF, who counter-sued them, with both sides issuing a variety of allegations. The suit alleging election campaign misconduct
was ultimately dismissed by the court.[43]
On January 15, 2008, four Board members issued a statement which requested Susan Polgar's husband step down from his position on the
Board for "neglecting his fiduciary duties" through not providing an affirmative defense to the lawsuit.[44] This was not, however, an official
vote of the Executive Board. Polgar subsequently published a statement asserting that the Board members who voted in favor of this request
made a number of misrepresentations.[45]
On August 7, 2009, the Executive Board of the USCF rescinded the membership of Polgar and her husband, and they appealed to the
Board of Delegates of the USCF. On August 8, 2009, the Delegates of the USCF ratified the previous year's actions of the Executive Board
with respect to the litigation. In a closed Executive Session, the Delegates upheld the membership revocations.[46][47] The lawsuits were all
settled in 2010, with Polgar and Truong severing all affiliation with the USCF (though both still play in USCF events under "Playing NonMember Status"); the USCF's court costs of $131,000 were paid out by its insurer and it had to pay Polgar's attorney fees of $39,000.[48]
As of January 2009, Polgar has held the title of Co-Chairperson of the Board of the Commission for Women's Chess for FIDE, the World
Chess Federation.
In 2012, she moved with members of her top collegiate chess team to Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri.[24]
In 2014, Polgar was awarded the Furman Symeon medal, which is given annually to the best chess coach who works with both male and
female players. This made her the first coach from America to earn one of the top six coach medals and also the first woman to ever be
recognized by FIDE with a top coaching medal.[49]

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External links
Official website (http://www.susanpolgar.com)
Susan Polgar (https://twitter.com/SusanPolgar) on Twitter
Sisters

Wikimedia Commons has

media related to Zsuzsa
Polgr.

Judit (http://juditpolgar.com)
Sofia (http://sofiapolgar.com)
Polgar's blogs
Personal (http://www.susanpolgar.blogspot.com/)
Chess Center (http://www.PolgarChessClub.blogspot.com/)
Girls (http://www.polgargirls.blogspot.com/), (SPICE)
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Chess for Peace (http://www.chessforpeace.blogspot.com/), 2006 tour with pictures

Profiles
Susan Polgar (http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=15162) player profile and games at Chessgames.com
Susan Polgar (http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=700088) rating card at FIDE
My Brilliant Brain (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wzs33wvr9E) on YouTube

Preceded by
Xie Jun

Women's World Chess Champion

19961999

Succeeded by
vacant, then Xie Jun

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