Grandmaster Judit, Grandmaster Susan, International Master Sophia, and their parents, Klára and László Polgár might disagree.
László Polgár had a thesis that one does simply raise a prodigy and managed to do pretty well on that score, given that he and his wife Klára proceeded to then raise three female chess prodigies.
Of course one swallow does not a summer make, so it could just be blind luck, but it is an interesting and fairly persuasive case.
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Grandmaster Judit, Grandmaster Susan, International Master Sophia, and their parents, Klára and László Polgár might disagree.
László Polgár had a thesis that one does simply raise a prodigy and managed to do pretty well on that score, given that he and his wife Klára proceeded to then raise three female chess prodigies.
Of course one swallow does not a summer make, so it could just be blind luck, but it is an interesting and fairly persuasive case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r