How To Become A Genius- The Polgár Experiment | Daniel Karim

In this article I write about the unbelievable story of the Polgár’s. The family who successfully created three geniuses on purpose. In the summer of 1973, a father and his daughter walked into a chess club in Budapest. 1 The club was full of heavy cigarette smoke and elderly men who came there day after day to play chess. The father approached the gentlemen. The old men could not believe their ears when they heard László Polgár challenge them to play against his four-year-old daughter, Susan Polgár. László put a pillow that he brought from home on one of the chairs so his daughter could reach the table. The old chess foxes could not believe their eyes when little Susan won one match after another. Who the hell was this kid? Thirty years later Susan Polgár, the world’s first female chess grandmaster was ready to give her usual Thursday night lecture at the New York Chess club when she announced to the room, “I have a special treat for you tonight!“.2 “Tonight, everyone will get to pla

In this article I write about the unbelievable story of the Polgár’s. The family who successfully created three geniuses on purpose. In the summer of 1973, a father and his daughter walked into a chess club in Budapest. 1 The club was full of heavy cigarette smoke and elderly men who came there day after day to play chess. The father approached the gentlemen. The old men could not believe their ears when they heard László Polgár challenge them to play against his four-year-old daughter, Susan Polgár. László put a pillow that he brought from home on one of the chairs so his daughter could reach