Blast from the Past: Susan Polgar and Chess in Central Park

Salutations to GM Susan Polgar who is celebrating a birthday today while in Dresden, Germany. I don't report the particular number of the birthday because, as all true Goddesses know, age is irrelevant, darlings! What counts is what is within one's heart, and Susan Polgar has a truly good and great heart. Tonight (or maybe it's already been tonight in Dresden!) Ms. Polgar will be a featured guest at a gala ball in honor of the upcoming 2008 Chess Olympiad which is being hosted by Dresden.

Susan Polgar has been tireless in her efforts to promote chess, and during the past several years, the benefits of chess for children - and indeed, for everyone. Here's a blast from the past story from Chessbase (2004) about a wonderful day of chess in Central Park, New York, with GM Susan Polgar, GM Lev Alburt, and hundreds of chessplayers all having a great time. Lots of fab photos by Paul Truong.

Chess in the City
04.10.2004 – What brings hundreds of New York chess fans to Central Park on a rainy October day? They are there to watch a game between two grandmasters, which children reinact on a giant chessboard. This is another great idea coming out of the Susan Polgar Foundation – one that even Governor George E. Pataki knows to appreciate. More...

Here's a very pretty photo of Susan Polgar taken at Madison Square Garden sometime in 2007 - I found it on the internet and cut it down so that it fits here.