Name: Chess Grandmaster Susan Polgar, Author of “Rebel Queen"
Start: 2025-03-13T19:00:00-05:00
Location: St. Louis County Library

$Chess Grandmaster Susan Polgar, Author of \u201cRebel Queen"$

A real life “Queen’s Gambit,” this captivating memoir tells the story of one of the most renowned women in chess history. Born to a poor Jewish family in Cold War Budapest, Susan Polgar would become the highest rated female chess player on the planet and the first woman to earn the men's Grandmaster title -- chess' highest designation. Yet, at every turn, she was pitted against a sexist culture, a hostile Communist government, and vicious anti-Semitism. And she overcame all of it to break the game's long-standing gender barrier.
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