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Oct 2014
38m 31s

Susan Polgar, How to be rich as a king, ...

John Lee Dumas Of Eofire
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Susan is a Hungarian-born American chess Grandmaster. She is famous for having been a child prodigy at chess, for being a pioneer for women in chess, and for being an advocate for chess in education.

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