Zsuzsa Polgár

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Zsuzsa Polgár at the 2012 Chess Olympiad
Association HungaryHungary Hungary (until 2002, since 2019) United States (2002 to 2019)
United StatesUnited States 
Born April 19, 1969
Budapest
title International Master of Women (1982)
International Master (1984)
Grand Master (1991)
world champion 1996 to 1999
Current  Elo rating 2577 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2577 (since January 2005)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Zsuzsa Polgár (also Susan Polgár , actually Zsuzsanna Polgár ) [ ˈʒuʒɒ ˈpolgaːr ] (born April 19, 1969 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian - American chess player . She is considered to be one of the strongest chess players in history.

Life

Zsuzsa Polgár at the Chess Olympiad 2008 in Dresden as moderator for the press conferences

Susan Polgar already learned very early the game of chess and was, her younger sisters as Zsófia and Judit , by their father László Polgár trained . In 1973, when she was four, she won the Budapest Girls' Championship for under-11s with 10-0 points. In the same year she composed her first chess problem .

In the Hungarian national championship in 1986, which Iván Faragó won, she took part at the age of seventeen, achieved a tied second place and was the first woman to receive a place in a zone tournament .

In 1991 she was awarded the title of Grand Master (GM) by the World Chess Federation FIDE .

In 1993 she failed in the candidates' tournament against the Georgian grandmaster Nana Iosseliani only after drawing lots. But from 1996 to 1999 she was world chess champion . She won the title by winning a competitive 8.5: 4.5 against Xie Jun . She did not appear to defend her title because she had just become a mother and had requested a rescheduling. The world chess federation FIDE did not accept this demand and took away the title. In a trial before the International Court of Justice , she was awarded $ 25,000 in damages.

Polgár runs a chess school (Polgar Chess Center) in New York and in 2002 founded the Susan Polgar Foundation , which is dedicated to promoting youth chess . She has headed the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence (S.P.I.C.E.) since 2007 , which was moved from Texas Tech University to Webster University in 2012 . She published several textbooks and videos on chess.

Zsuzsa Polgár and Paul Truong, Chess Olympiad 2008 in Dresden

On August 1, 2005, she set a world record in simultaneous chess in Palm Beach Gardens . She played against 326 players simultaneously and won 309 games in 16.5 hours with 3 defeats and 14 draws . The record has since been surpassed by Kiril Georgiev in February and Morteza Mahjoob in August in 2009 , but she remains the woman with the most simultaneous roles.

Polgár married Jacob Shutzman at the end of 1994 and they have two children with him. After the couple's divorce, Polgár has been married to Paul Truong for the second time since May 2007 .

In February 2015, Polgár would be in fourth place in the world rankings for women. However, she is listed as inactive because she has not played a rated game since the 2004 Women's Chess Olympiad.

Elo development

Game example

Zsuzsa Polgár - Leonid Judassin
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End position after 30. Se8

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In the following game, Zsuzsa Polgár defeated the Soviet world-class player Leonid Judassin with the white stones at the SKA Mephisto tournament in Munich in 1991 .

Zsuzsa Polgár - Leonid Judassin 1-0
Munich, May 1991
Queen's pawn game , D05
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 c5 4. Bd3 Sc6 5. 0–0 d5 6. b3 Bd6 7. Bb2 0–0 8. a3 Qc7 9. c4 cxd4 10. exd4 e5 11. dxe5 Nxe5 12. Nxe5 Bxe5 13. Bxe5 Qxe5 14. Nd2 Bg4 15. Re1 Qd6 16. Qc2 Tac8 17. h3 Bh5 18. Bf5 Rc7 19. Qd3 Rd8 20. Qd4 b6 21. Re5 Re7 22. f4 Qc7 23 25. exf6 gxf6 26. Qxf6 c3 27. Ne4 c2 28. Qh6 Bg6 29.Nf6 + Kh8 30. Ne8 1: 0

National team

Zsófia, Ildikó , Judit and Zsuzsa (1988)
Olympic champions for women in Thessaloniki
Zsuzsa Polgár at the Simultaneous Play (2005)

Zsuzsa Polgár participated in four women's chess Olympiads , in 1988 , 1990 and 1994 with Hungary, in 2004 with the United States. In the team classification she won in 1988 and 1990, she reached second place in 1994 and 2004. In the individual classification she achieved the best result in 1990, the second best in 1994 and 2004 and the third best result on the first board in 1988, and in 2004 she achieved the best rating of all participants , 1990 and 1994 the third best. At the European team championship in 1989 she took part with Hungary in the open class.

societies

Susan Polgar took the MTK Budapest FC on European Club Cup in part 1990th In the German Bundesliga she was registered for SC Stadthagen in the 1994/95 season, but was not used.

literature

  • Z. Polgar, Jacob Shutzman: Queen of the Kings game . CompChess, Rego Park 1997, ISBN 0-9657059-7-8 .
  • Z. Polgar, Paul Truong: Breaking through: How the Polgar sisters changed the world of chess . Everyman, London 2005, ISBN 1-85744-381-0 .

Web links

Commons : Zsuzsa Polgár  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. Fifteen men and one girl . German chess newspaper August 1986, pp. 269/270. (Report and game)
  2. Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 81.
  3. Numbers according to FIDE Elo lists. Data sources: fide.com (period since 2001), olimpbase.org (period 1971 to 2001)
  4. Zsuzsa Polgár's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. Zsuzsa Polgár's results at European team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. Zsuzsa Polgár's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)