When I learn that Webster University’s Susan Polgar, the head coach for the school’s chess team, is being inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame—the youngest female inductee ever—an idea begins to ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Chess grandmaster Susan Polgar When fictional chess prodigy Beth Harmon beat her Russian rival in the highest-stakes tournament, ...

When it comes to the real queen of chess — not the orphaned, sedative-addicted, fashionista variety now in vogue courtesy of Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit” — Susan Polgar is a model grandmaster. Two ...

Susan Polgar would go to the ends of the earth to raise awareness of the game of chess. There was the event in Florida where she played 326 matches simultaneously, setting a world record. And there ...

Susan Polgar was perfumed, coiffed, made-up and dressed in a sleek black pantsuit, an elegant contrast to the boys and young men hunched over their boards in her Queens, New York, chess club. "I have ...