I was teaching a chess class in the Queens Public Library in Flushing
Queens New York near to the Polgar Chess Center for a number of years.
I never met even one kid who was in the Polgar Chess Program. However,
many of the kids in my class were also in the Chess in the Schools
with IM Yuri Lapshun as their teacher or were in other chess programs
around the city.

The number of 300,000 probably represents the number of all kids
combined in chess programs in the entire United States. The USCF only
has about 30,000 scholastic members. If the 300,000 claim is true,
then she has ten times more kids in her personal program than the USCF
has in the entire United States.

Sam Sloan