![]() ![]() Judit Polgár playing chess without even looking. In particular, little Judit left the crowd in awe, when the 9-year old battled five players at the same time while being blindfolded. When she was 16 years old, Susan participated in the New York Open Chess competition, a prestigious tournament for the best of the best.Īlthough Susan was dominating her competition, as usual, there were two other participants in the tournament who caused quite the fuzz: Susan’s 11-year-old sister Sophia, and her 9-year-old sister Judit. ![]() When Susan was the age of the boy, she already dominated the adult chess world and crushed competitor after competitor. While defeating him, she mentored him by saying, “Once you have a winning position, play with your hands, not your head. It took Susan minutes to defeat her next two opponents, the last one to beat was a reluctant and shy teenage chess student. The young man stood up, shook his head in confusion, and made room for the next one. They were playing blitz chess, a form of chess where they not only played against one of the best chess players of all time in Susan Polgár but also against the clock.įirst in line, was a young Serbian who tried to play aggressively, Susan managed to beat him in no time. Susan Polgár slurping on a drink while playing twenty players simultaneously. The atmosphere in the room tensed, everybody transformed from student to competitor.Įveryone except Susan. “Tonight, everyone will get to play me“ Susan, 36 said with a gentle, but confident smile on her face to all the other chess players in the room. Thirty years later Susan Polgár, the world’s first female chess grandmaster was ready to give her usual Thursday night lecture at the New York Chess club when she announced to the room, “I have a special treat for you tonight!“. Who the hell was this kid? The First Female Chess Grandmaster The old chess foxes could not believe their eyes when little Susan won one match after another. László put a pillow that he brought from home on one of the chairs so his daughter could reach the table. The old men could not believe their ears when they heard László Polgár challenge them to play against his four-year-old daughter, Susan Polgár. The club was full of heavy cigarette smoke and elderly men who came there day after day to play chess. Logical Dilemmasâ pleting his high-school studies in 1923.In the summer of 1973, a father and his daughter walked into a chess club in Budapest. John Gödel attended school in Brunn, comW. A Logical Journeyâ also has got very early signs of mental and From Gödel to Philosophy, MIT physical problems. ![]() As a consequence, a central feature of his work and life was his choice to concentrate on what he considered to be fundamental, almost completely disregarding other issues. He was aware, from early childhood, of his great capacities for concentration, accuracy, and thoroughness for separating the essential from the inessential, for getting fast to the core. Yet, with a few notable exceptions, most of the personal details of Gödelâs life remained a mystery.2 HIS LIFE Gödel was born on April 28, 1906, in Brünn, Austria-Hungary (now Brno, Czech Republic). Ndoubtedly, Kurt Gödel was the greatest logician of the twentieth century.1 There is no trace of exaggeration in saying, following Wang, that Gödelâs contribution to mathematics has the same status as Freudian psychology, Einsteinâs theory of relativity, Bohrâs principle of complementarily, Heisenbergâs uncertainty principle, Keynesian economics, and Watson and Crickâs double-helix model of DNA. AcThe Life and Work of Kurt Gödel, cording to his Logical Dilemmasâ pleting his high-school studies in 1923. ![]() A genius's story: Two books on Gödel A genius's story: Two books on Gödel ![]()
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