Moderately tangential, but I am reminded of László Polgár, who famously claims to have raised his daughters into some of history’s greatest female chess players, by adopting a particular training regime.
In particular, he later wanted to try his training regime with an adopted kid:
In 1992, Polgár said that he now wanted “to break the racial barriers in the virtually all-white chess world” by adopting “a black infant from the Third World” whom he would train to become a chess prodigy.[2] Susan recalled in 2005 that, about 15 years earlier, “a very nice Dutch billionaire named Joop van Oosterom” had offered to help Polgár “adopt three boys from a developing country and raise them exactly as they raised us.” Polgár, according to Susan, “really wanted to do it, but my mother talked him out of it. She understood that life is not only about chess and that all the rest would fall on her lap.”[6]
I do get his wife’s perspective, but I’m also kind of bummed they didn’t try, since man if it would’ve actually worked that sure would’ve been some strikingly interesting evidence.
Moderately tangential, but I am reminded of László Polgár, who famously claims to have raised his daughters into some of history’s greatest female chess players, by adopting a particular training regime.
In particular, he later wanted to try his training regime with an adopted kid:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r
I do get his wife’s perspective, but I’m also kind of bummed they didn’t try, since man if it would’ve actually worked that sure would’ve been some strikingly interesting evidence.