My friend GM Dmitry Gurevich just sent me this article from the NY Times back in 1985. This was my first ever tournament in the United States.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Down the memory lane
About Author
This was the time when the NY Times Chess Column was written by the well respected GM Robert Byrne. Now it’s become a political chess column written by a total unknown.
Very nice.
The late Harold C Schonberg was a legend. The current columnist could learn a thing or two from him him and Robert Byrne.
Susan Polgar proved that women can compete at the highest levels in chess. I think it’s great she’s still involved in chess and promoting it in a positive way. Here in Europe there’s a lot of respect for the Polgar sisters. 🙂
It is interesting to me that Zsuzsa was known as “Susan” even then. It’s one thing to fix one’s name for professional purposes as an adult, but this was as a teen on a first(?) visit to Terra Anglophonica. Of course, if one has decided on chess as a “professional purpose” already as a teen…
Harold Schonberg was indeed a luminary, because his daughter (or niece?) was my elementary-school librarian! Where I got my first chess books…
Regarding “professional purposes”, when I mentioned winning a small prize in an open as a 6th-grader, she gave me a worried look and whispered, “Have you ever heard of Jim Thorpe?”
“Terra Anglophonica”
The ways things ar going, NY is more like Terra Hispanophonica.
Eso Si Que ES?
Dicendo “Eso si que es” en el Bronx es particularmente peligroso, porque afrente a los Yanquis :-).