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. She was also the first woman to be inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame. She won the U.S. Women's Chess Championship in 1944, 1948 (with Mona May Karff), 1954, 1955 (with Nancy Roos), 1957 (with Sonja Graf), 1962, 1965, 1966 (with Lisa Lane), 1967, and 1969 (at age 63). February 8 is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... December 4 is the 338th day (339th on leap years) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... List of U.S. Womens Chess Champions 1937 Adele Rivero 1938 Mona May Karff 1939 1940 Adele Rivero 1941 Mona May Karff 1942 Mona May Karff 1943 1944 Gisela Kahn Gresser 1945 1946 Mona May Karff 1947 1948 Gisela Kahn Gresser - Mona May Karff 1949 1950 1951 Mary Bain... Mona May Karff Mona May Karff (1914 - 1998) was a chess player. ... Nancy Roos, born February 28, 1905 as Nancy Krotoschin, was married to Martin Roos. ... Sonja (Susanna) Graf (Stevenson) (December 16, 1908–March 6, 1965) was a professional chess player and two time winner of the U.S. Womens Chess Championship. ... Lisa Lane on the cover of Sports Illustrated of August 1961 Lisa Lane (born 1938) was an American chess player. ...

Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1906, Gresser first learned to play chess at the late age of 30. 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). In 1940, she was one of the participants, and in 1944, she won it. Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes - this motto was adopted after the disastrous 1805 fire that devastated the territorial city) Nickname: The Motor City and Motown Location in Michigan Founded  -Incorporated July 24, 1701 1816  County Wayne County Mayor Kwame... 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... List of U.S. Womens Chess Champions 1937 Adele Rivero 1938 Mona May Karff 1939 1940 Adele Rivero 1941 Mona May Karff 1942 Mona May Karff 1943 1944 Gisela Kahn Gresser 1945 1946 Mona May Karff 1947 1948 Gisela Kahn Gresser - Mona May Karff 1949 1950 1951 Mary Bain... Lower Plaza at Rockefeller Center Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings between 48th and 51st street in New York. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, communications, music, fashion, and culture. ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Ms.Gresser was a housewife, married in 1927 to William Gresser, an attorney and musicologist. She had attended Radcliffe, followed by the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece on a fellowship. Radcliffe may be refer to: People: Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown Ann Radcliffe, author Charles Radcliffe, magazine editor Daniel Radcliffe, child actor J. A. Radcliffe, British ionospheric physicist and academic Jack Radcliffe, actor [Jeannie A Radcliffe], spagyrist John Radcliffe, physician Mark Radcliffe, DJ Paula Radcliffe, athlete Places: Radcliffe, Iowa Radcliffe, Greater... For other uses, see Athens (disambiguation). ...

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. She won the 1954 U.S. Women's Open Championship. List of U.S. Womens Chess Champions 1937 Adele Rivero 1938 Mona May Karff 1939 1940 Adele Rivero 1941 Mona May Karff 1942 Mona May Karff 1943 1944 Gisela Kahn Gresser 1945 1946 Mona May Karff 1947 1948 Gisela Kahn Gresser - Mona May Karff 1949 1950 1951 Mary Bain...

She had also written an article for the October 1950 issue of Ladies Home Journal, entitled I Went to Moscow. A cover of Ladies Home Journal from 1906 Ladies Home Journal is a magazine first published February 16, 1883 as a womens supplement to the Tribune and Farmer. ...

When Gisela Kahn Gresser died at age 94, the USCF still had her listed:

 Gresser, Gisela Kahn (WIM ) USA 2090.