The Géza Maróczy Chess School has been established by the Hungarian Chess Federation as a Hungarian state-supported sports project. The school is designed to offer an intensive training program to the most talented young Hungarian players.
Those youths who apply (the best players from the eight to fifteen-year old age group, each with a FIDE rating between 1800 and 2400) need to take an entrance examination. The successful ones receive five hundred hours of practice in a series of one or two-week long training camps.
Their coaches are experienced, several-time Olympic player grandmasters. In addition, further lecturers are invited on a regular basis. Chess practices are held in the training camps throughout the day, and two hours of physical exercise are also offered. In between two training camps, coaching is internet-based.
Members enter into a special agreement with their respective schools to continue their studies, and as chess players, they remain on their original teams. The Géza Maróczy Chess School opened half a year ago, and it has produced significant results within this short time (for example, fourteen-year old Péter Prohászka’s grandmaster norm). In the long run, this project is expected to strengthen the Hungarian Olympic team.
Some of the coaches include: IM Janos Szabolcsi, GM Jozsef Horvath and GM Jozsef Pinter, etc.
In Hungarian 🙂
A Maróczy Géza Sakkiskolát a Magyar Sakkszövetség hozta létre egy magyar állami sportprogram támogatásával. Célja a legtehetségesebb fiatal magyar sakkozók intenzív képzése. A jelentkezõ fiatalok (a 8-15 éves korosztály legjobbjai, 1800-2400 FIDE-ratinggal) felvételi vizsgán vesznek részt. A felvettek évi 500 óra edzést kapnak egy- és kéthetes edzõtáborokban. Edzõik tapasztalt, többszörös olimpikon nagymesterek. Rajtuk kívül renszeresen tartanak elõadást meghívott elõadók. Az edzõtáborokban reggeltõl estig folyik a sakkedzés, és napi 2 óra sportolás is része a programnak. Két edzõtábor között internetes feladatmegoldás folyik. A tagok speciális megállapodás alapján tovább végzik iskolai tanulmányaikat, és mint versenyzõk, továbbra is eddigi klubjukban játszanak. Az iskola fél éve mûködik, máris sok eredménnyel (pl. GM-norm egy 14 éves fiúnak, Prohászka Péternek). Hosszabb távon a magyar olimpiai csapat megerõsödését várják ettõl a projekttõl.
You look practically gleeful. 🙂
Yes, I miss my home country and family. I was very happy to be back.
Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
http://www.PolgarChess.com
How can Hungarian succeed not to have even one understandable word? It’s doing better even than German in this respect.:)
It’s great though. Saving this very different language in the heart of Europe all through the centuries.
very nice plan indeed but Susan how do they handle scholastic chess in Budapest in general. I would hate to see an enthusiastic and passionate kid get left behind because their parents were not “well-off” or did not appreciate chess themselves. This question is kind of in contrast to what I experienced as a child.
all my best
Jimmie
It’s nice that the state finally gave something due to chess. I wish there was such a school in Bulgaria too. Chess was much better off here during socialism when it was state-sponsored as a “sport for the mind”. Many people then viewed chess as a refuge from the common boredom, mediocrity and misery.