László Polgár

László Polgár [ la ː slo ː Polga ː r] ( born May 11, 1946 in Gyöngyös ) is a Hungarian educator and father of the famous chess players Zsuzsa Polgár Judit Polgár and Zsófia Polgár.

Life

László Polgár comes from a Jewish- Hungarian family. His father Ármin Protyovin was in the Hungarian labor service and his mother Bella was concentration camp survivors. His grandparents were murdered in Auschwitz. László was brought up religiously and originally wanted to become a rabbi. His mother emigrated in 1956 with Laszlo's younger sister in the West, while he stayed with his father and attended the Jewish school in Budapest. After that he worked as a welder and took evening courses in education, psychology and Esperanto. He then worked at a middle school as a teacher of drawing and ethics. His wife Klára Alberger, born in 1946 in Wylok in the Transcarpathian Oblast, he came to know about a pen pal. They met for the first time in 1965 in Budapest, on 20 April 1967, she got married. On April 19, 1969 their first daughter Zsuzsa was born. Zsófia in 1974, Judit born in 1976.

Education

Polgar's theory is that talents are not innate but can be instilled. He was influenced here by the writings of American psychologist John B. Watson. Polgár also looked at the biographies of geniuses known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Carl Friedrich Gauss. His conclusion from this was that children are at a very early capable of extraordinary performances, when they are promoted systematically and intensively. To make this practically prove he devoted himself entirely to the education of his daughters, he taught exclusively at home. After several months of correspondence with the Ministry he received an exemption. The game of chess is why he chose as a training subject, because products obtained benefits are easily measurable based on tournament results. All three were in fact very strong players, two are among the best chess players of all time. He was of the opinion that you do in order to achieve top performance, always had to compete with the best. So he summoned his daughters play predominantly in men's tournaments, which was initially not welcomed by the Hungarian Chess Federation.

From Polgar didactic findings also benefited Péter Lékó. Meanwhile, coach Gáspár Máthé was often a guest at the Polgar and adapted for the training of Lékó the methods Laszlo Polgar's only slightly.

He has written several books: In Chess (1994 ), Middle Games ( 1998) and Endgames (1999) find each several thousand tasks that can be used in chess training. In reform -Chess ( 1997), he provides chess variants on scale chess boards (8 x 6, 6 x 8, 9 x 6, 5 ​​x 8 fields) before. In the published only in Hungarian language book Salom Haver (2004) he describes Jewish chess player from Hungary. In 2013 he wrote a book in Hungarian language with 443 pages in length over the table tennis player Victor Barna of Hungary, the time table tennis world champion was 23: BARNA VIKTOR Pályafutásom.

Works

• Le phénomène Polgar ou l'art de shaper of genius. Paris, 1991
• Chess, 1994, ISBN 3-89508-029-2
• Middle Games, 1998, ISBN 3-89508-683-5
• Endgames, 1999, ISBN 3-8290-0507-5
• Reform Chess, 1997, ISBN 3-89508-226-0
• Salom Haver, 2004, ISBN 963-214-570-4
• Viktor Barna Pályafutásom, 2013, ISBN 978-963-9807-79-2