Rebel Queen : the Cold War, misogyny, and the making of a Grandmaster / Susan Polgar ; with foreword by Yasser Seirawan.
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.
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Subject: | Polgár, Zsuzsa, 1969- Polgár, Zsuzsa, 1969- > Childhood and youth. Chess > Biography. Women chess players > Hungary > Biography. |
Genre: | Biographies. Autobiographies. |
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