Susan ( Juža ) Polgar ( born Susan Polgar , nee Hungarian. Polgár Zsuzsa ) (b. April 19, 1969 , Budapest , Hungary ) - Hungarian, then American chess player , eighth world champion from 1996 to 1999. Honored trainer of FIDE (2004) [4] .
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| Countries |  Hungary  USA Hungary (since 2019) [1] |
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| Rank | grandmaster ( 1991 ) international master ( 1984 ) ---- grandmaster ( 1987 ) among women international master ( 1982 ) among women |
| Maximum rating | 2577 (January 2005) |
| Actual Rating | 2577 (September 2019 ) |
| Personal card on the FIDE website Personal card on the Chess DB website | |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Rating changes
- 3 Sisters
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
Biography
Juzha Polgar was born into a Jewish family in Budapest . All three children in the family - the sisters Juzh, Sofia and Judit - received home education. The children were taught by their mother Klara Polgar (née Altberger, born 1946 ), a teacher from the village of Vilok (now Transcarpathian region of Ukraine ), who graduated from the university in Uzhgorod . [5] [6] From early childhood, children were taught chess by their father - psychologist and teacher Laszlo Polgar . The sisters became strong chess players, Juja Polgar is an international grandmaster, lives with her husband in New York , USA , Judit Polgar is a grandmaster in Hungary , and Sofia Polgar (Kosashvili) is an international master in Israel .
She is called Zhuzha Polgar: Zhuzha is a diminutive of Zsuzsanna.
In January 1991, Polgar became a grandmaster among men. (Earlier, this title was achieved by Nona Gaprindashvili and Maya Chiburdanidze ).
In 1996, Polgar became the world champion.
In 1999, FIDE deprived Juju Polgar of the title of champion. Later, she challenged this decision in court and won the trial, but the title of world champion was already won.
Susan Polgar speaks, in addition to Hungarian, six more languages - Esperanto , which she speaks from childhood, German, Russian, Spanish, English and Hebrew.
The National Geographic Channel about Susan Polgar produced the documentary My Outstanding Brain: Make Me a Genius .
Rating Changes
Sisters
- Polgar, Sofia
- Polgar, Judit
Notes
- ↑ Transfers in 2019
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 1028671792 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Global Chess Academy (link not available) . Date of treatment September 29, 2008. Archived on May 3, 2008.
- ↑ Interview with Susan Polgar
- ↑ What brilliant children we will have : Parents met by correspondence and met in 1965 in Budapest, where Klara Altberger was visiting with her uncle.
- ↑ Elo rating from FIDE lists. Sources: fide.com , benoni.de , olimpbase.org
Links
- Susan Polgar Official Website http://www.susanpolgar.com/
- Susan Polgar's personal card on the FIDE website
- Susan Polgar games in the database