GM Susan Polgar

• Award winning and best selling Chess Author in numerous languages (Award-winning columnist with regular columns in Chess Life, School Mates, Chess Life for Kids, Chess Horizons, Chess Cafe, NY Empire Chess, Georgia Chess, Chessville, Chess Chronicle, and www.ChessHall.org, etc.

• 2003 Chess Educator of the Year from the University of Texas at Dallas

• Prominent Chess Trainer and Coach
  (Coached both Judit and Sofia Polgar)

• Advocate for Women’s Chess and Scholastic Chess (Chairperson of the US Women’s Chess Committee, 2003 USCF Committee of the Year)

• Founder of the Susan Polgar Foundation: (A nonprofit organization to help promote chess for women and youth in America)

• 4-time World Chess Champion and 5-time Olympic Champion

• Member of the historic 2004 U.S. Women's Silver Medalist Olympiad Team - Record 56 consecutive game scoring streak without a loss

• Only World Champion (male or female) to win the Triple-Crown in Chess: Rapid, Blitz and Standard Time Control World Championships

• Women’s World Champion - 1996

• Women’s World Rapid Champion - 1992

• Women’s World Blitz Champion - 1992

• Women’s World Champion [girls under 16] at the age of 12 - 1981)

• 5-time Olympic Champion and 10 overall medals: 5 Gold, 4 Silver, and 1 Bronze

• 3-time Winner of the prestigious "Chess Oscar" (Latest one in March 04)

• first woman ever to win the Grandmaster of the Year Award (August 03)

• First woman ever to win the U.S. Open Blitz Championship (2003 and 2005)

• First woman ever to break the "Gender Barrier" to earn the title of Men's Grandmaster('91)

• First Woman ever to break the "Gender Barrier" and qualify for the Men’s World Championship('86)

• #1 ranked woman chess player in the world at the age of 15

• Top 3 in the world for 22 years straight.

• Currently ranked #2 in the world and #1 ranked U.S. woman player

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