• ColeSloth
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    19 hours ago

    Really? I xant believe any 3 year old could pull over like a 700. Does this kid actually exist?

    *Edit: Fucking hell. He’s real. Anish Sarkar. He has a grandmaster coach and practices 8 hours a day. Kids going to quickly become unbeatable and burn out quicker than Bobby Fisher.

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      But necessarily. Laslo Polgar tried to prove he could raise chess prodigies by teaching them from very young. His daughters became great chess players, Judit even beating Kasparov on a occasion.

      However they did not have a laying curve that exceeded other people spending all of their time at chess. And they grew up as quite level headed individuals.

      So one can’t make a prodigy but spending much time learning something makes you better at it.

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        Yes but I doubt Polfar dedicated 8 hours a day to a single child at the age of 3 on. Plus, I doubt any of his kids are a 1555 elo when they were under 4 years old.