Jerzy wrote:
"Roman M. Parparov" wrote in message
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You miss the point.

Rubinstein started playing at age 16, (Tchigorin even later), but they
progressed rapidly, and weren't nonprogressing patzers in between ages
16-23. I am talking about kids whose parents bring them at age 6-7-8 to
chess club and which fail to show any significant progress until age
10-12, but still float in 1600-1800 area.


No, you miss some points.

If they had gone to the club their initial at the age let`s say 7 their
ratings were 1000 ELO. So what no significant progress are you talking about
? They are 1600-1800 ELO at the age age10-12 so the progress is more than
visible.

IMHO, a progress from 1000 to 1500 is a matter of a year, otherwise
it's a waste of money (although a pleasant hobby).
I was not a brilliancy and was a lazy one, but I learned chess at age 5,
at age 7 I was Class D, 8 - C, 9 - B, 11 - A and at age of 13 I
abandoned serious study because I was unable to cope psychologically
with serious chess and also became more fascinated with sciences.
Tchigorin, starting at 18, was a top-level Russian player at 24.

If you claim that the chess education should be reduced only to emerging
chess prodigies I am of a different opinion.
Give children a chance to grow up and decide what they want to learn more
seriously. Like in other sciences or sports.
Of course there is now quite the opposite trend : all trainers are searching
for new Bobby Fischers. Not to mention parents of the little wonders ))
I meet such parents all around ))

I mean, in Soviet chess school trainers did push out all non-prodigies,
and they could do it, because nobody paid them money and obliged thus
them to waste their time.

In that way they were able to dedicate all their time to high-potential
students and bring them to where they have been since 1948.

Regards,
Jerzy



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