BUDAPEST — Innovation, it seems, runs deep in the Polgar family DNA. In the 1970s, the father Laszlo, a teacher, challenged Hungary’s communist authorities by homeschooling his children as chess prodigies. Now his youngest daughter, Judit, considered the world’s best ever female player, is using “Chess Palace”, an educational tool she developed, to equip kids for the 21st century. From “Speedy Bishop” to “Jumpy-Knight,” the pieces come alive in games and songs, building blocks, stickers, textbooks and digital applications, all to help kids hone their skills. “Chess can open up a kid’s brain, and develop it in a playful creative way,” Polgar, 41, told AFP during a recent...
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