The chess games of Gisela Kahn Gresser

Gisela Kahn Gresser
Number of games in database: 37
Years covered: 1946 to 1971
Last FIDE rating: 2090
Overall record: +9 -24 =4 (29.7%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

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GISELA KAHN GRESSER (born Feb-08-1906, died Dec-04-2000) United States of America	[what is this?]
Gisela Kahn Gresser was born in Detroit, 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. Wikipedia article: Gisela Kahn Gresser

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Game	Result	Moves	Year	Event/Locale	Opening
1. Rather vs G Gresser	0-1	10	1946	New York Marshall corr	C34 King's Gambit Accepted
2. G Gresser vs V Borisenko-Belova	0-1	46	1950	Moscow, WCH Woman RUS	C24 Bishop's Opening
3. Keller-Hermann vs G Gresser	1-0	59	1950	Moscow, WCH Woman RUS	D57 Queen's Gambit Declined, Lasker Defense
4. G Gresser vs F Heemskerk	0-1	69	1950	Moscow, WCH Woman RUS	B10 Caro-Kann
5. E Tranmer vs G Gresser	1-0	48	1950	Moscow, WCH Woman RUS	C77 Ruy Lopez
6. C Benini vs G Gresser	0-1	52	1950	Moscow, WCH Woman RUS	D52 Queen's Gambit Declined
7. M Karff vs G Gresser	1-0	41	1950	Moscow, WCH Woman RUS	D37 Queen's Gambit Declined
8. G Gresser vs N Grushkova-Belska	1-0	52	1950	Moscow, WCH Woman RUS	C10 French
9. C Chaude de Silans vs G Gresser	1-0	36	1950	Moscow, WCH Woman RUS	A52 Budapest Gambit
10. G Gresser vs L Rudenko	1-0	41	1950	Moscow, WCH Woman RUS	C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
11. G Gresser vs R Hermanowa	1-0	34	1950	Moscow, WCH Woman RUS	B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation
12. O Rubtsova vs G Gresser	1-0	43	1950	Moscow, WCH Woman RUS	A28 English
13. T Dunst vs G Gresser	1-0	13	1950	New York	A00 Uncommon Opening
14. G Gresser vs M T Mora Iturralde	0-1	57	1950	Moscow, WCH Woman RUS	B83 Sicilian
15. G Gresser vs E Bykova	0-1	53	1950	Moscow, WCH Woman RUS	C55 Two Knights Defense
16. I Larsen vs G Gresser	1-0	62	1950	Moscow, WCH Woman RUS	D52 Queen's Gambit Declined
17. G Gresser vs J Langos	1-0	36	1950	Moscow, WCH Woman RUS	C55 Two Knights Defense
18. Lombardy vs G Gresser	1-0	48	1956	Manhattan CC-ch sf-D 5657	E58 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Main line with 8...Bxc3
19. G Gresser vs E Ladanyike-Karakas	½-½	26	1959	Candidates Tournament (Women)	A03 Bird's Opening
20. G Gresser vs O Rubtsova	½-½	41	1959	Candidates Tournament (Women)	B88 Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin Attack
21. G Gresser vs C Chaude de Silans	0-1	40	1961	Vrnjacka Banja ct (Women)	B06 Robatsch
22. G Gresser vs L Lane	1-0	28	1961	Vrnjacka Banja ct (Women)	B35 Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto, Modern Variation with Bc4
23. G Hulgana vs G Gresser	1-0	24	1963	2nd olw final	C50 Giuoco Piano
24. E Ladanyike-Karakas vs G Gresser	½-½	35	1963	Split ol (Women)	C53 Giuoco Piano
25. A Nicolau Van Der Mije vs G Gresser	½-½	24	1963	2nd olw final	C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical


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Apr-02-04		morphyvsfischer: I think this is the first woman GM.

Jan-01-05		Benzol: Gisela Khan Gresser Born 8th February 1906 in Detroit A WIM in 1950 she was Women's World Championship Challenger in 1949-50.

Jan-01-05		tpstar: <Benzol> Khan or Kahn?

Jan-01-05		vonKrolock: < tpstar: <Benzol> Khan or Kahn?> All the available sources gives the form KAHN - the results presenting the other spelling are related to Sultan Khan. ***en passant http://www.chesslinks.org/hof/gress... presents a very detailed Gresser's bio

Jan-01-05		Benzol: <tpstar> <vonKrolock> <Khan or Kahn> Sorry guys that should have been Kahn. A fingerslip on the keyboard. :)

Jan-04-05		Lawrence: After reading <Arnold Denker>'s obituary in the "N.Y.Times" I saw that they let you access the Dec. 2000 obituary of <Gisela Kahn Gresser>. Many kibitzers ask about the possibility of learning to play chess well when you only start as an adult. According to the obituary, she learned at the age of 33 and was 9 times U.S. Women's champion.

Feb-08-06		BIDMONFA: Gisela Kahn Gresser GRESSER, Gisela Kahn http://www.bidmonfa.com/gresser_gis... _

Jul-20-07		whiteshark: http://www.goddesschess.com/chessgo... presents a very detailed Gresser's bio

Jul-20-07		Petrosianic: Interesting. It says she was the first woman in the United States to get a master title. I would have thought that was Sonja Graf. Unfortunately, histories of the US Women's Championship are hard to find. I've got several crosstables of tournaments that Gresser competed in, but none of the 9 that she won. Her rating was still over 2000 in the early 70's, but slipped to low 1900's/high 1800's by the middle of the decade.

Jul-03-08		stoy: I remember her in the Marshall Chess Club in the mid 1960's. I lost a tournament game to her. She was a good person.

Feb-08-09		brankat: <Petrosianic> Sonja Graf was a Women's WC Challenger already in 1937 and '39, so most likely she'd had a Master title already, probably in 1936 after her victory in Semmering. She moved to the States only after the WWII, and was awarded the WIM in 1950 when the title was introduced.

Feb-08-09		brankat: In Mrs.Kahn-Gresser's Bio it states: "..died Dec - 00.." I assume it is 2000? R.I.P. Gisela.

Nov-04-11		whiteshark: Here are two pictures of the younger Ms. Gresser: http://www.tabladeflandes.com/frank...

Feb-08-12		brankat: Happy Birthday Ms.Gresser!

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C64		Ruy Lopez, Classical (2 games)
C55		Two Knights Defense (2 games)
A03		Bird's Opening (2 games)
B06		Robatsch (2 games)
D52		Queen's Gambit Declined (2 games)