When I read this story, this is what came to mind. The story of the LAszlo sisters. Can it be done? I guess Mr. Laszlo proved it can. Is it fair to the child for the parent to choose their path in life at such an early age? I happen to think not, but obviously there is room for disagreement.
"She and her two older sisters, Grandmaster Susan and International Master Zs�fia, were part of an educational experiment carried out by their father L�szl� Polg�r, in an attempt to prove that children could make exceptional achievements if trained in a specialist subject from a very early age. "Geniuses are made, not born," was L�szl�'s thesis. He and his wife Klara educated their three daughters at home, with chess as the specialist subject. However, chess was not taught to the exclusion of everything else, as was the case with Gata Kamsky. Their father also taught his three daughters the international language Esperanto."
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