Susan Polgar

Susan Polgar
Country	Hungary  United States
Title	Grandmaster
Women's World Champion	1996–1999
FIDE rating	2577
Peak rating	2577

Susan Polgar (born 19 April 1969 as Polgár Zsuzsanna and often known as Zsuzsa Polgár) is a Hungarian-American chess player.

At 15, she was the top-ranked woman player in the world. She was the Women's World Chess Champion from 1996 to 1999. In October 2005 Polgar had a FIDE rating of 2577, making her the second-ranked woman in the world at the time, after her sister Judit Polgár. She has been inactive and has not played in official competition since 2004.

Polgar is head of the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence at Texas Tech University, and a chess writer and promoter. She had been on the Executive of the United States Chess Federation, but was stripped of her membership after a complicated internal struggle.

Susan was born and brought up in Budapest, Hungary, and now lives in Lubbock, Texas. She recently moved from Forest Hills, Queens in New York City, where she ran the Polgar Chess Center and the Susan Polgar Foundation, which gives chess training to children, especially girls.^[1]

1. ↑ Yaniv, Oren. "MASTERING CHESS WAS THE EASY PART. BLACK BELT CHAMP TEACHES MOVES IN FOREST HILLS"^{[permanent dead link]} Daily News (New York), 3 April 2005. Accessed 17 June 2009.