This is the first home that my sisters and I were raised in. This is where the Polgar sisters began our lives. As you can see, we grew up in a poor family.
Click here to see the video footage of the filming today at my first home. The girl and the man are playing me and my father.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
It looks like an abandoned elementary school.
It is great they are shooting this movie in the same neighborhood in which you grew up. It will add a strong sense of realism to the movie.
It is also great to see how excited you are to be home again. I know the feeling. Thank you for the pictures.
cool video. reminds me of my childhood. very nicely done.
I have to see the final product on National Geographic on TV, I assume. I am looking forward to seeing this one.
Hát Zsuzsi, most őszintén: jártál te valaha is ekkora nyitott sakktáblával a hónod alatt?
(Ezek a filmesek mindig sablonokban gondolkoznak.)
Alig várom már, hogy kész legyen és láthassam.
🙂
I cannot wait to see the movie…..when will it be released Susan….just curious. Thanks
Jimmie
Susan wrote:
This is where the Polgar sisters began our lives. As you can see, we grew up in a poor family.
Which shows my old theory: success or failure doesn’t depend on poverty or wealth.
Gabor
misimatt said…
Hát Zsuzsi, most őszintén: jártál te valaha is ekkora nyitott sakktáblával a hónod alatt?
(Ezek a filmesek mindig sablonokban gondolkoznak.)
Ha az uszodai sakktablara gondolsz, azok a feltekerheto linoleum sakktablak voltak, es tipikusak voltak az uszodakban, a Kulich Gyula teren, meg mas helyeken ahol az utcai sakkozas nempszeru volt.
Gabor
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‘As you can see, we grew up in a poor family.”
I can’t see thst from the picture. Your house was bigger than mine. Almost everyone in Hungary was poor. Then Robin Hood came.
Gábor,
én a videóban látható sakktáblára gondoltam.
Ráadásul Zsuzsa édesapjának nem is volt szakálla akkoriban (amint azt lentebb láthattuk).
Ez az:
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l81/misimatt/tabla.jpg
hoddy said…
Hi Dr.Gabor could you please translate the Hungarian comments to English …thanks hoddy
Despite I speak both English and Hungarian reasonably well, I am a very poor translator for some reason. So, by no means you should consider my translation accurate. But let me try anyway:
Hát Zsuzsi, most őszintén: jártál te valaha is ekkora nyitott sakktáblával a hónod alatt?
(Ezek a filmesek mindig sablonokban gondolkoznak.)
“But Susan, honestly: have you ever walked around with this large open chessboard?
These movie people always think in stereotypes.”
The translation is very approximate, I am sorry, but essentially this is the meaning.
Gabor
More translation:
misimatt said…
“én a videóban látható sakktáblára gondoltam.
Ráadásul Zsuzsa édesapjának nem is volt szakálla akkoriban (amint azt lentebb láthattuk). “
“I thought of the chessboard on the video.
On top of it Susan’s father had no beard at that time (as we could see that below)”
One anon said:
As you can see, we grew up in a poor family.”
I can’t see thst from the picture. Your house was bigger than mine. Almost everyone in Hungary was poor.
Well, yes and no. On a general level it is true (everyone in Hungary was poor to a certain extent).
Yet, within the poor there were many “less poor” and “more poor” people. It wasn’t nearly as equal as the communists tried to make people believe. Some people had cars (Trabant, Wartburg, etc.). Those days it was the sign of absolute “being rich”. I have no idea how those people got to cars. My stepfather who honestly worked hard all through his life, was a lawyer (jogtanacsos, Allami Biztosito) and had a slightly above the average salary, was dreaming about ANY vehicle until he died without one. He went in his dreams as low as a Velorex (remember?), but he couldn’t even collect enough for that. The Trabant was way out of his financial range.
We lived some weird times, didn’t we?
Gabor
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