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Rebel Queen : the Cold War, misogyny, and the making of a Grandmaster  Cover Image Book Book

Rebel Queen : the Cold War, misogyny, and the making of a Grandmaster / Susan Polgar ; with foreword by Yasser Seirawan.

Polgár, Zsuzsa, 1969- (author.). Seirawan, Yasser, 1960- (writer of foreword.).

Summary:

A real life 'Queens Gambit', 'Rebel Queen' is the story of one of the most renowned women in chess history, Susan Polgar, who took on a sexist establishment, standing up to an authoritarian empire, and rewriting the rules of what women could achieve against the oppressive backdrop of Cold War Eastern Europe.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781538757291 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 343 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2025.
Subject: Polgár, Zsuzsa, 1969-
Polgár, Zsuzsa, 1969- > Childhood and youth.
Chess > Biography.
Women chess players > Hungary > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.
Autobiographies.

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