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Thu 28 Aug, 2008 10:34 pm
- My Brilliant Brain - Make Me A Genius
- At 38 years old, Susan Polgar has reached heights that few women have ever equaled in the chess world. Despite the common assumption that men's brains are better at understanding spatial relationships, giving them an advantage in games such as chess, Susan went on to become the world's first grandmaster. Susan's remarkable abilities have earned her the label of 'genius', but her psychologist father, L?szl? Polgar, believed that genius was not born, but made. Noting that even Mozart received tutelage from his father at a very early age, Polgar set about teaching chess to the five-year-old Susan after she happened upon a chess set in their home. "My father believed that the potential of children was not used optimally," says Susan
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