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Gisela Kahn Gresser was born on 8 February, 1906 in Detroit, Michigan, is an American chess player (1906–2000). Discover Gisela Kahn Gresser's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 94 years old?
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Detroit, Michigan |
| Date of death |
4 December, 2000 |
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New York City |
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United States
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Gisela Kahn Gresser (February 8, 1906 Detroit, Michigan – December 4, 2000) was an American chess player.
In 1927, she returned to New York, where she married William Gresser, a New York City attorney and musicologist, who died in 1982.
She was a housewife, and raised their two sons, Ion and Julian.
Gresser was an accomplished painter and musician, as well as a classical scholar.
She went on safari many times, even in her eighties.
Gresser (White) defeats her main rival for the U.S. Women's Chess Championship.
'''1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.
Bd2 Bxc3''' Leaving the kingside unprotected by a minor piece.
8.bxc3 Qc7 9.f4 Nxc3 10.Qg4 Stronger was 10.Qf3 Nd5 11.Nb5 Qc5 12.Nd6+ Kf8 13.Qh5 g6 14.Qh6+ Kg8 15.c4 followed by Ne4 and Nf6.
'''10... O-O 11.Bd3 Nd5 12.c4 f5 13.Qh4 Qc5!
15.Qh3 Nb4 16.Bb1 N8c6 17.a3 Na6 18.O-O!''' 18.g4 g6 19.Rg1 d6 defends and counterattacks.
18... d6 Probably better was 18... b6, followed by ... Nc5, ... Ba6, and ... Rac8.
'''19.exd6 Qxd6 20.Bc3 Nc5 21.
Bc2 Nxb3 22.Bxb3 Re8 23.Qg3 Qc7 24.Kh1 Re7''' Black could consider 24... e5 giving back the pawn.
Rae8''' 26... e5 does not work after 27.c5+ Kh8 28.fxe5 Nxe5 29.Rxd7; or 27... Be6 28.Be6+ Rxe6 29.fxe5 Nxe5 30.Rd6!
'''27.Rfd1 Bc8 28.c5 Kh8 29.Ba4!
30.Qh4''' 30.Rxd8+ Nxd8 31.Be5 Qa5 32.Qg5 wins material immediately.
On a cruise from France to New York in the late 1930s, she borrowed a chess manual from a fellow passenger and taught herself how to play.
By the end of the cruise, she was hooked.
In 1938, she was a spectator at the first U.S. Women's Chess Championship tournament, organized by Caroline Marshall (wife of US Champion Frank Marshall) and held at the Rockefeller Center in New York City (won by Adele Rivero).
She first played in the championship in 1940, and in 1944 she won it with a perfect score.
She dominated women's chess in the United States, winning the U.S. Women's Chess Championship nine times from 1944 to 1969.
Gresser learned chess at a very late age.
In addition to her repeated successes in the U.S. Women's Chess Championship, Gresser also played in the Women's World Chess Championship tournament of 1949-50, and subsequently in six Women's World Championship cycles: five Candidates' tournaments (1955, 1959, 1961, 1964, and 1967) and one Interzonal tournament (1971).
She also wrote an article for the October 1950 issue of Ladies Home Journal, entitled "I Went to Moscow".
Mrs. Gresser (Mrs. was her preferred title) took lessons from International Master Hans Kmoch and Grandmaster Arthur Bisguier.
She was (with Karff) one of the first three female chess players in the United States, and one of the first seventeen players in the world, to be awarded the title of Woman International Master in 1950 when FIDE created official titles.
She won the 1954 U.S. Women's Open Championship.
She played for the U.S. team in three Women's Chess Olympiads (1957, 1963, and 1966).
In April 1963, she became the first woman in the United States to gain a master title, with a rating of 2211.
She was also the first woman to be inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame, which happened in 1992.
Gresser studied classics at Radcliffe.
She won a prestigious Charles Elliott Norton fellowship, which she used to continue her studies at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece.
