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| Title Statement | Rebel Queen: the Cold War, misogyny, and the making of a Grandmaster / Susan Polgar ; with foreword by Yasser Seirawan. |
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| Author | Polgár, Zsuzsa, 1969- |
| Additional Contributors | Seirawan, Yasser,1960- |
| Publication | New York: Grand Central Publishing,2025. |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Extent of Item | 343 pages |
| ISBN | 9781538757291 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr07763601 |
| 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. |
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| By Topic | Chess--Biography |
| Women chess players--Biography--Hungary | |
| By Name | Polgár, Zsuzsa,1969- |
| Polgár, Zsuzsa,1969---Childhood and youth | |
| By Genre | Biographies |
| Autobiographies | |
