Susan Polgar must have felt like a movie star at the Hyatt Regency here on Saturday evening. People wanted to take photographs with her and journalists wanted to speak to her. She may not be in the movies, but she is a star, alright, in women’s chess. She became the World No. 1 when she was 15, she has been the World champion, has won 10 medals at the Chess Olympiad — mostly for Hungary, and taught the opening moves to the finest female player of all time, Judit Polgar, her kid sister. She is in Chennai as a commentator for the...
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