It's the reason LASLO Polgar was able to produce not one, not two, but three of the world's top chess champions.

He actually sought out, for people who don't know the story, he sought out a researcher to Mary, not a love marriage, and he said,

I'm going to prove that talent can be learned, that there is no inherent talent. Now, I don't know how we found a woman to agree that have three children which were essentially experiments. I mean the the ethics of it are questionable to us today.

But here's what happened.

His first daughter became one of the best chess prodigies in the world.

His second daughter became the youngest grandmaster

of all time.

And his third daughter went on to win the world championships.

So one after the other after the other.

Lazlow Polgar himself, not a particularly gifted chess player,

nor was his wife. That makes a pretty compelling argument against

this idea of inherent and natural talent. These girls were groomed every single day to play chess.

That was their life and that was their purpose.

And for those who are thinking this was abuse and everything

and people have asked the daughters,

you know, how do you feel about this?

And they said, oh, we loved it.

We love chess.

It was our favorite thing in the world.

Oftentimes, our dad would come in and say,

girls, you need to go to sleep, and then we would turn on the flashlight and play

chests with each other. You know and one time he walked in and caught one of his daughters I don't remember which one.

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