About Susan Polgar: – Winner of 4 Women’s World Championships (Under 16, Blitz, Rapid, and Classical) – First World Chess Champion in history (male or female) to win the triple-crown (Blitz, Rapid and Classical World Championships) – The only person in history, male or female, to win all 6 prestigious crowns in chess: World Classical, […]
UNDERSTANDING CHESS WITH GM NYZHNYK: ATTACKING THE KING! (3)
Hello everybody, and welcome to a third article of the “Understanding Chess with Grandmaster Illia Nyzhnyk” series. In the last article, I talked about king safety, and what one should be looking for when making a decision on how to defend their king. This time, I would like to “reverse the roles” and discuss what […]
Highest Rated 15 Year Old
Another excerpt from my upcoming autobiography (March 11, 2025) If anything, the hostile treatment I was getting from the authorities was the best motivator I could have hoped for, because my chess improved by leaps and bounds during that period. By January of 1983, I had become among the top ten female players in […]
Up Against the Big Guns
𝖠𝗇𝗈𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗋 𝗎𝗇𝖾𝖽𝗂𝗍𝖾𝖽 𝖾𝗑𝖼𝖾𝗋𝗉𝗍 𝖿𝗋𝗈𝗆 𝗆𝗒 𝗎𝗉𝖼𝗈𝗆𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝖺𝗎𝗍𝗈𝖻𝗂𝗈𝗀𝗋𝖺𝗉𝗁𝗒 (𝖾𝗑𝗉𝖾𝖼𝗍𝖾𝖽 𝗍𝗈 𝖻𝖾 𝗋𝖾𝗅𝖾𝖺𝗌𝖾𝖽 𝖿𝗈𝗋 𝖶𝗈𝗆𝖾𝗇’𝗌 𝖧𝗂𝗌𝗍𝗈𝗋𝗒 𝖬𝗈𝗇𝗍𝗁 𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟧) …the classical chess tournaments that had defined my career up until that point started to feel unsatisfying, repetitive even. So I began to seek out different formats and new challenges. Maybe this was Bobby’s influence (𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 […]
Locked Behind the Iron Curtain
Another unedited excerpt from my upcoming autobiography (expected to be out on March 11, 2025): For the next few years, I became a prisoner of sorts, locked behind the Iron Curtain, not sure if I would ever be allowed to leave again to compete. At first, it seemed inconceivable to me that my own government […]
The Final Hurdle To History!
Another unedited excerpt of my upcoming autobiography: The final hurdle to making history! We ended the year (1990) back in Spain, for a tournament in Pamplona, the city best known for its famous “running of the bulls.” Locally, it’s just as famous for its New Year’s Eve carnival, which just happened to be in full […]
“Why is there a need for Girl’s or Women’s Tournaments?”
“Why is there a need for Girl’s or Women’s tournaments?” This is probably one of the top 5 questions I have most often been asked over the past 15 years, since creating the Susan Polgar Foundation in 2002. I would like to walk you through some history and then explain to you some challenges girls […]
Budapest Olympiad Closing Ceremony Photos
Closing Ceremony: 275+ photos https://share.icloud.com/photos/06fZjKWD8IuIzmhRuNiPd7OLw
Chess Sickness and the Cure!
Common Chess Sickness! And this sickness can cause a lot of pain and headaches! DO NOT get into time pressure! I have been preaching this to all my students for the longest time! Discipline yourself! I have seen countless World Championship titles, National Championships, Olympiad Gold Medals, and Big Tournament Money lost because of blunders […]
It doesn’t matter how you start in chess!
Many moons ago on May 30th, 1998, a young 5 year old boy walked into my Chess Club in Queens, New York, with his father for his first ever rated tournament. He lost his 1st rated game and scored only 1/4. His 1st rating was 473. One of the players he lost to was Elina […]