Note, the reason for this is that their father, a researcher, decided to perform an experiment with the goal of proving that innate talent is not as much a factor as work - that ‘genius’ can be taught, essentially.
He literally looked for a wife who would help him with this. He found a woman who was interested by the idea and agreed to marry him and have his kids so they could be his experiment.
He decided on chess as the medium for the experiment because it has clear goals and rankings. He himself was not especially good at chess, nor was his wife. He taught his daughters chess from a very young age - at age five, his first daughter, Susan, won a local competition against people more than twice her age.
I’m not saying their accomplishments aren’t their own - they absolutely are! These are three phenomenal ladies who have brilliant skill. But their unusual upbringing is the root of why all three of them are chess champions.
What I would like to know is how he encouraged them to love chess, rather than making it feel like a chore to them. Because that is the most important key, I feel. It won’t help if you start a kid on something young but go about it in a way that leads to them resenting it! And he very easily could have raised three daughters who wanted nothing more than to hurl a chessboard at his head. Somehow, he didn’t, and *that’s* the interesting part to me.
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