# The Chess Girls

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- Book: [The Chess Girls](https://www.bookquiver.com/lavinia-greenlaw/the-chess-girls) ([The Chess Girls.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/lavinia-greenlaw/the-chess-girls.md))
- Authors: [Lavinia Greenlaw](https://www.bookquiver.com/lavinia-greenlaw)
- Publisher: BBC Digital Audio
- Medium: audio
- Length: 43 min
- Narrated by: Sally Orrock, Kerry Shale
- ISBN: 978-14-4587-079-3
- Published: 2012-06-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 43 min

## Description

The emergence of the Polgar sisters in the 1970s and 80s rocked the chess world. In a heavily male dominated game, the three Hungarian girls broke record after record. The youngest, Judit, was talked of as a potential world champion. The Chess Girls is the story of their parents, Laszlo and Klara Polgar, and how they defied the Communist authorities to conduct a remarkable educational experiment. Laszlo Polgar, convinced that any healthy child can be trained to become a genius, set out to prove his theory with his own children. This is a drama-documentary with excerpts from an interview with Laszlo and Klara Polgar recorded for the play. The writer, Lavinia Greenlaw, takes their account and re-creates the lives of the young Polgar family in their tiny Budapest flat. The fictional Laszlo is played by Kerry Shale, and Klara by Sally Orrock. Director: Chris Ledgard.