On Nov 21, 8:55 pm, help bot wrote:
On Nov 21, 7:03 pm, samsloan wrote:

This law firm is counsel to defendants The United States Chess
Federation, Hoainhan Truong, Zsuzsanna Polger,

Zsuzanna Polger?

Zsuzsanna is her actual legal name.

Zsuzsa is a diminutive form of Zsuzsanna.

Thanks -- I never would have figured that out by myself.

Um... "Polger"?

Susan is just a nickname Zsuzsanna Polger adopted when she immigrated
to America.

Thanks again; it's amazing the things one can learn
from much smarter people, like Mr. Sloan! Until now,
I suffered from the delusion that all "Susans" everywhere
used American English, and spelled their names the
same no matter where they lived or what language they
spoke. Silly me.

I learned all this during the months I stayed in Zsuzsanna's apartment
in Budapest in 1986.

Really? Ms. Pogar had her own apartment in Budapest?
How ever did she manage to pay the rent? Wait -- don't
tell me... by giving chess lessons?

-- help bot

That was under Communist rule and rent was usually cheap, like five
dollars a month.

The disadvantage was you had to wait for years on a waiting list. You
could not just pick out an apartment and move in.

The exact apartment where I stayed and played chess with Zsuzsanna and
her sisters, Sofia and Judit, in seen on the video, "My Brilliant
Brain - Make Me a Genius"

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...q=Susan+Polgar

You can see the exact apartment and the exact room at 26:01 minutes
into the video.

Sam Sloan