Gisela Kahn Gresser

Gisela Gresser (nee Kahn, born February 8, 1906 in Detroit, † 4 December 2000) was an American chess player. Along with Mona Karff they dominated for many years the women's chess in the U.S. and won 1944-1969 a total of nine times the national championship.

Life

Her father Julius Kahn was a wealthy businessman and engineer. After her college education, she settled in New York in 1927 and married the lawyer William Gresser. Only at the age of 30 years she learned the game of chess. In 1940 she first participated at the chess championship of the USA, in 1944 she managed the first title.

She participated in three Chess Olympiads, and the World Chess Championship 1949/1950 in Moscow as a representative of her country.

You did a lot for the popularization of chess in the United States, including through publication of articles in journals such as the Ladies' Home Journal.

1950 she was awarded the World Chess Federation FIDE the title of International Champion. As the first woman she was accepted in 1992 by the U.S. Chess Federation United States Chess Federation in the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame.