That’s me teaching my sisters. It seems like it was just yesterday.
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That’s me teaching my sisters. It seems like it was just yesterday.
I can remember seeing that picture when it was first published! You mean it was not yesterday?
🙂
Susan, what do you think the catalyst was for three exceptionally strong chess players all in the same family. Right off the top of my head I cannot think of another such family, maybe you know better?
Do you think it was down to your parents. This is not the first time that question has popped into my head. Maybe it was shear luck, but the odds for that must be something astronomical.
Nice pic,
Black & white !
Olden days
Lazlo’s Angels !!
Polin
What a great picture and what a great teacher!
No luck involved
90% of all successes are due to hard work
I was not saying that luck made the sisters so strong, the point I was making was the fact of there being 3 such strong sisters in the same family.
Hard work alone will not make you a grand master, although it does require and enormous amount of hard work. You have to be gifted as well. The luck element I was referring to was there being 3 gifted members in the one family.
And I can just hear Judit: “You should have opened 1. e4.” 🙂
Oh, what a great picture! I can just see the tenderness between you and your sisters. 🙂
I think the dark hair looked nice as well 😉
To [ken tait]… The catalyst was The Polgar sisters father Lazlo. He took a scientific approach on the theory of homeschooling the girls and having them work very hard on chess, that they could all become great successes.
Ken I understood what you were saying
I believe the hard work all three of them put in is the “secret” to their mutual success more than the talent they were born with.
That is why I don’t believe that it is amazing that they are all in the same family. They all had the same 2 parents teaching them about the value of practice.
Suzuki and EArl Woods also agreed with the value of early and constant exposure in the fields of music and golf respecively.
It’s a very nice picture, Susan. BTW, Can you post what you have on your playing schedule for the next twelve months as well as for Judit? Does Sofia still play? If so, can you post her schedule as well?
Thank you.
Sorry Michael, I am afraid we will have to agree to disagree on this one. I don’t believe that anyone has ever become a GM through sheer hard work alone, I think it takes sheer hard work AND a natural born talent. To say it boils down mostly to hard work, means that the only reason I am not a GM is that I must not have worked hard enough. Or the only reason I failed to get a maths degree is due to me not working hard enough.
People have different talents, not everyone can be a great painter, no matter how much hard work they put in. Now, what I do believe is, no matter what the subject is, everyone has the ability of getting VERY good through sheer hard work alone and zero natural talent. I would also agree that there are county level chess players who could have been GM’s if they had put in the extra hard work, but there are also county level chess players who have achieved this level purely on the basis of the hard work they have put in.
In truth, I don’t think our views are so far apart really, its just that we are not on the exact same eye level, however I do respect your opinion my friend.
Sorry Michael, I am afraid we will have to agree to disagree on this one. I don’t believe that anyone has ever become a GM through sheer hard work alone, I think it takes sheer hard work AND a natural born talent. To say it boils down mostly to hard work, means that the only reason I am not a GM is that I must not have worked hard enough. Or the only reason I failed to get a maths degree is due to me not working hard enough.
People have different talents, not everyone can be a great painter, no matter how much hard work they put in. Now, what I do believe is, no matter what the subject is, everyone has the ability of getting VERY good through sheer hard work alone and zero natural talent. I would also agree that there are county level chess players who could have been GM’s if they had put in the extra hard work, but there are also county level chess players who have achieved this level purely on the basis of the hard work they have put in.
In truth, I don’t think our views are so far apart really, its just that we are not on the exact same eye level, however I do respect your opinion my friend.
Sorry for posting twice, its not that my comments were so good they needed saying twice 🙂
There were some problems with the system at the time and I did not realise that the first posting had worked!
hey ken what was that first comment again
this photo is very nice.
1999?
It’s a very nice picture. Even more than chess, I apreciate the found feeling between Zsuzsa and her little sisters. Wonderful!
This is exactly why Judit became so strong at Chess!! Her older sisters passed on their experience! 🙂 Especially ZsuZsa! 🙂
Jutka is probably very thankful for you, Susan! 🙂
you left me without words, like the film of the pasion of christ.(the ), your sisters were very lucky to have u as the older one, i wish i had of been a better brother like u was to u sisters.
thanks ofor the photo, its lovely, black and white no color cameras yet ?
did u tell us why u started to play chess and u sisters or not?
bye.
Pictures Worth More Than a Thousand Words …
Ken Tait:
I’m sure Susan will probalby come in here and correct me on some of these details, but as the basic story goes:
The Polgar sister’s father had a theory that geniuses were not born but created and he decided to test out his theories by raising his children from birth to be geniuses in a field. He choose chess.
I’m sure he didn’t force his children to learn chess, but he mentored them in and had chess around them from birth, yada yada.
So whiel it might be coincidence that all three had strong mental abilities, it isn’t a coincidence all three had chess careers.
here is a wikipedia article on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r