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  Gisela Kahn Gresser, 94, Champion Chess Player - New York Times
Gisela Kahn Gresser, a pioneer in women's chess and a nine-time national champion, died Dec. 4 in her Manhattan home.
Gresser, who was born in 1906 in Detroit, taught herself to play chess using a book a fellow passenger gave her on a cruise in 1939.
Gresser studied classics as an undergraduate at Radcliffe College and won a fellowship for classical studies at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.
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 Gisela Kahn Gresser - Chesspedia, the free chess encyclopedia Pushedpawn.org
Gisela Kahn Gresser (February 8, 1906 - December 4, 2000) was one of the first two female chess players in the United States to gain the title of master in 1950 when FIDE created official titles.
In 1938, she was in attendance at the first U.S. Women's Chess Championship tournament, organized by Caroline Marshall and held at the Rockefeller Center in New York City (won by Adele Rivero).
Besides her astounding success in the U.S. Women's Chess Championship, Gresser also played in five Women’s Candidates’ tournaments (for the Women's World Chess Championship - she was the challenger for the 1949-50 title) and three Women’s Chess Olympiads.
pushedpawn.org /test7/Gisela_Kahn_Gresser.htm   (316 words)

  
 GISELA K. GRESSER (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-5.cs.princeton.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Gresser was an important pioneer in womenÕs chess because she showed that women could become strong players in formal, high-level competition.
December 11, 2000 Gisela Kahn Gresser, Champion Chess Player, Dies at 94 By EUN LEE KOH Gisela Kahn Gresser, a pioneer in women's chess and a nine-time national champion, died Dec. 4 in her Manhattan home.
Gisela Kahn Gresser, the first woman in the United States to gain a master title, died in New York City in December.
www.goddesschess.com.cob-web.org:8888 /chess%20goddesses/gresser.html   (749 words)

  
 The chess games of Gisela Kahn Gresser
Gisela Kahn Gresser was born on the 8th of February 1906 in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Awarded the WIM title in 1950 she was Women's World Championship Challenger in 1949-50 and also won the US Women's Championship nine times.
All the available sources gives the form KAHN - the results presenting the other spelling are related to Sultan Khan.
www.chessgames.com /perl/chessplayer?pid=31334   (263 words)

  
 Sarah's Chess Journal - Bravenet Blog
This means she was probably born around 1938 in the midst of the depression.
She would win the title once more as co-champion with Gresser in 1966.
Gisela Kahn Gresser was the first woman in the United States to gain a master title.
chessgrrl.bravejournal.com /archive/02/28/2004   (1033 words)

  
 Athletes - Gisela Kahn Gresser
She won the U.S. Women's Chess Championship in 1944, 1948 (with Mona May Karff
When Gisela Kahn Gresser died at age 94, the USCF still had her listed: :Gresser, Gisela Kahn (WIM) USA 2090.
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Gresser, Gisela Kahn : Jews In Sports @ Virtual Museum
Gresser was the first woman to achieve a master's rating.
Gisela captured the U.S. Women's Chess Championship eight times: her first in 1944, and the last in 1969, at the age of 63.
www.jewsinsports.org /profile.asp?sport=chess&ID=127   (67 words)

  
 Mona May Karff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When FIDE established titles in 1950, Mona May Karff was one of four American women to receive the title of International Woman Master.
While her international success was mediocre, she, along with Gisela Kahn Gresser and Mary Bain, dominated U.S. women's chess in the 1940s and early 1950s.
She competed and won the title six more times, in 1941, 1943, 1946, 1948 (sharing it with Gresser), 1953 and astonishingly in 1974 (at age 60).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mona_May_Karff   (408 words)

  
 PASPCR Newsletter Vol 3 #2
Ramsay JA, From L, Kahn HJ: bcl-2 Protein expression in melanocytic neoplasms of the skin.
Sharma K, Korade Z, Frank E: Late-migrating neuroepithelial cells from the spinal cord differentiate into sensory ganglion cells and melanocytes.
Kaido T, Bandu MT, Maury C, Ferrantini M, Belardelli F, Gresser I: IFN-((1) gene transfection completely abolishes the tumorigenicity of murine B16 melanoma cells in allogeneic DBA/2 mice and decreases their tumorigenicity in syngeneic C57BL/6 mice.
paspcr.med.umn.edu /Newsletters/1995_2.htm   (13977 words)

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