There are many young talented female players today.
Below are some of the best up and coming players according to the October 2005 rating list:
* Koneru, H. (IND) 2540
* Lahno, K. (UKR) 2509
* Kosintseva, T. (RUS) 2489
* Kosintseva, N. (RUS) 2486
* Zhao, X. (CHI) 2478 
I expect to see a future Women’s World Champion or two from this group of 5 talented female players.
In addition, there were some significant moves among top players:
* Xu, Y. of China is back up above 2500 for the first time since 2001.
* Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman of India jumped all the way up to 2486 from 2414!
* Chiburdanidze, M. of Georgia is still consistently over 2500.
* Socko, M. of Poland is at #15 in the world, the highest of her career.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Susan, this may not be a question you want to answer and I’ll understand. In 1993 Judit beat Spassky by about the same ratio as Fischer did a year earlier. How would a 16 year old Judit have done against a 50 year old Fischer?
It would have been a very interesting match. I would have given it 50-50.
Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
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Coming from India myself and having a bit of interest in the sport, I can comment about a few things about Chess in India.
1: Chess does not receive the kind of sponsorship or attention like other sports in India. For ex: Cricket.
2: As a direct result of the point above, Indian chess players do not get exposure to international tournaments as much as they should because of lack of sponsorship etc.
3: However, success of “Vishy” Anand has done a lot to bring attention to the sport. We have quite a few promising talents and I am hoping the sponsorship scenario would improve and these talents would get the necessary grooming of their skills.
I have known Anand for many years. He is great for chess. I just met Humpy for the first time in Calvia 2004. She has a good demeanor to be successful in chess. She is also humble and very respectful toward others. I am very impressed with her.
Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
http://www.PolgarChess.com
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Well, being humble and respectful is actually very much part of the culture. However, maybe that is why Indian players lack that Kasparov like killer instinct… that extra zing of agressiveness…
By the way, do you think Judit can pull a draw here. Looks very difficult and Topa should be able to bring the point home. I was really hoping she would stop his winning streak!
Hello Susan,
First of all I would like to tell you that I consider your efforts to popularize chess among North American kids (in special girls) as valuable as 1972 Fischer phenomenon. To bad that are not to many GM’s doing the same thing as you do.
Second, I would like you to ask for a favor. Four years ago, we started a junior chess club in Burnaby/Canada. Now we have close to 40 kids enroled in the club. We would like to ask to email us at golden.knights.chess.club@gmail.com a picture with you and maybe couple of nice words for the kids. We would post everything on the club website photo album: http://www.64funsolutions.ca
Best wishes
Andrei (in behalf of Golden Knights Chess Club, Burnaby, Canada)
Jolanta Zawadzka is interesting chessgirl 😛
Yeah Susan, You are doing a wonderful job in popularising Chess. Best Wishes
In your list of women who might contend for the championship you forgot to mention Alexandra Kosteniuk. Or is she no longer competing for the women’s world championship?
The reason why I did not list her is because I don’t know what is her goal. Does she want to be a model, a chess player, an actress, an entrepeneur or a promoter, etc.
I would not recommend anyone with aspiration to be the best player to do 5-10 things at once. I can tell you that both Judit and I at the same age fully concentrated in chess. That is why were were both #1 in the world. There is no other way around it.
I can promote chess now because I am no longer in full time competition. And yet before I played in the 2004 Olympiad, I spent more than a year training very hard. That is why I came home with 4 medals (2 gold and 2 silver) after not playing International chess for 9 years.
She is a talented player who could achieve a lot more if she can decide what is the most important thing to her.
Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
http://www.PolgarChess.com
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Dear Andrei,
This is for your chess club.
Chess is a great game that you can enjoy for the rest of your lives. It can help you with school and in life. It certainly helped me. I hope all of you will keep on improving and having fun at the same time! Good luck with all your games and remember to
“Win with grace, lose with dignity!”
Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
http://www.SusanPolgar.blogspot.com
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http://www.SusanPolgarFoundation.org
Susan, It will be a great honour and inspiration if you make a visit to India during any one of the chess tournaments in India. Lots of young players are consistently emerging.
Recently we had Martina Navratilova coming to Hyderabad, India. Sure it will be great for the children to gaze at the stars like you and start dreaming the kind of dreams that Tom Hanks shows in the recent IMax docu flick Magnificient Desolation 🙂
HI Susan!
As expected your radio show last night was most valuable, I hope to catch the parts I didn’t hear today on replay at http://chess.fm/ when it goes on the air later.
He certainly covered a lot of territory, from your two new books(thanks for the autographed “BREAKING THROUGH” from your website), your DVDs, simuls,etc.. It was especially intersting to “hear” about the gender discrimination you faced while pioneering in Hungary even though its been in print forever.
I did hear Fred bring up the book “How to raise a successful daughter” which I bought and read when my daughter was a year old.
It’s time to refresh my memory and read it again since a father’s support is so imprtant as your own father proved.
Not only did he succeed with all three of his daughter’s, but the ripple effect through your work will help many many more little girls become succesful women .
BTW, what is the correct email address to get your chess newsletter by email,
Thanks
M
Thank you for your kind words! Hope that one day we will meet in person. Maybe next year at the Polgar invitational.
Andrei