On Nov 21, 9:45 pm, samsloan wrote:
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...79238&q=Susan+...

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

Sam Sloan

Please note that in this video, Susan Polgar is called "The First
Woman Grandmaster" and Paul Truong is called "A Former US Champion".

At least Susan Polgar is a grandmaster, although not the first. Nona
Gaprindashvili was the first.

Since when did Paul Truong ever win the US Championship?

Sam Sloan