Sofia Polgar
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==Biography== |
==Biography== |
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[[File:A Polgár lányok fortepan 40708.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Judit, Zsuzsa, Zsófia and László Polgár, 1989]] |
[[File:A Polgár lányok fortepan 40708.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Judit, Zsuzsa, Zsófia (Sofia) and László Polgár, 1989]] |
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Polgar was born into a [[History of the Jews in Hungary|Jewish]] family in [[Budapest]]. She and her two sisters were part of an educational experiment carried out by their father [[László Polgár]], in an attempt to prove that children could make exceptional achievements if trained in specialist subjects from a very early age—László's thesis being that "geniuses are made, not born". He and his wife Klára educated their three daughters at home, with chess as the specialist subject.{{cite web|url=https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=210390&contrassID=2&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y&itemNo=210390 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071122004124/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=210390&contrassID=2&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y&itemNo=210390 |archivedate=22 November 2007 |title=All the right moves |work=[[Haaretz]] |last=Shvidler |first=Eli |date=November 22, 2007 }} They also taught their daughters the international language [[Esperanto]]. |
Polgar was born into a [[History of the Jews in Hungary|Jewish]] family in [[Budapest]]. She and her two sisters were part of an educational experiment carried out by their father [[László Polgár]], in an attempt to prove that children could make exceptional achievements if trained in specialist subjects from a very early age—László's thesis being that "geniuses are made, not born". He and his wife Klára educated their three daughters at home, with chess as the specialist subject.{{cite web|url=https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=210390&contrassID=2&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y&itemNo=210390 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071122004124/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=210390&contrassID=2&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y&itemNo=210390 |archivedate=22 November 2007 |title=All the right moves |work=[[Haaretz]] |last=Shvidler |first=Eli |date=November 22, 2007 }} They also taught their daughters the international language [[Esperanto]]. |
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