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Judit, 12, who won men’s international master status at the unprecedented
age of 11 (three years earlier than Bobby Fischer and Gary Kasparov), and
Zsofi, who has just become a women’s grandmaster at 13 ( another record),
started playing chess before they were five, never went to school, were educated
by their parents, and now put in five or six hours a day at the board. They seem
very natural children. Between moves in the Duncan Lawrie mixed tournament
which ends today at London’s Ecclestone Hotel, they jump up for gossip or a
joke together. Their elder sister Zcuzca, back in Budapest, is halfway to men’s
international grandmaster status at the age of 19. The three girl, who will
represent Hungary at the Chess Olympiad in Salonika in two weeks’ time, have
begun to demolish the assumption that at the top level of world chess men will
always prevail.
Their father, Laszlo, once a lecture in psychology, now their business
manager, wanted to test the hot-housing theory: that if you subject a normally
intelligent child to intensive, specialized training in a particular discipline at a
very early age, you will produce excellence. His claim that his daughters were
not endowed by nature with any special intellectual gifts is central to his
argument. The girls’ mother, Klara, a language teacher, says:” It’s improbable
that three children in the same family would all be naturally gifted. They are
normal- just like other children, except that they spend more time concentrating
on chess. We hope one of them will be world champion one day.”
The Polgar blitz on male dominance has subverted some old physiological
and psychoanalytical explanations on women’s inferiority in top level chess, and
is likely to encourage other parents to push their daughters. Sooner or later this
should produce a woman world champion.
The article is debatable, isn’t it? What is meant by “hot-housing”? Do you
think the parents were right having had their daughters put in 5 or 6 hours a day
at the board?
The next exercise will be a creative one. You should match a word in column A
with a word in column B, afterwards write sentences with them.
A B
thickly respected
highly disappointed
utterly ill
painfully covered
gravely stupid
bitterly embarrassed
desperately inquisitive
incredibly confused
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