Gisela Gresser
Gisela Gresser (born Kahn, born February 8, 1906 in Detroit , † December 4, 2000 ) was an American chess player . Together with Mona Karff , she dominated women's chess in the USA for many years and won the national women's championship nine times between 1944 and 1969 .
Life
Her father Julius Kahn was a wealthy businessman and engineer. After her college education, she settled in New York and married the lawyer William Gresser in 1927. She only learned to play chess at the age of 30. In 1940 she took part in the US Women's Championship for the first time, and in 1944 she won her first title.
As a representative of her country, she took part in the women's chess Olympiad in 1957 (in which she achieved the third-best result on the top board), in 1963 and 1966, and in the 1949/50 World Chess Championship in Moscow.
She did a lot to popularize chess in the United States, including publishing articles in magazines such as the Ladies' Home Journal .
In 1950 the world chess federation FIDE awarded her the title of International Women's Champion (WIM). She was the first woman to be inducted into the US Chess Hall of Fame by the United States Chess Federation in 1992.
literature
- Jennifer Shahade : Chess bitch. Women in the ultimate intellectual sport . Siles Press, Los Angeles 2005. ISBN 1-890085-09-X (especially pp. 222-228).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gisela Gresser's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gresser, Gisela |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kahn, Gisela |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chess player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Detroit |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 4, 2000 |