a greater pleasure for my children than sterile play for play's sake

was a greater pleasure for my children than sterile play for play's sake.' He accepts that his children play less than other children, but considers this is normal for children of high ability who demand more absorbing tasks. He had thought of experimenting with three different subjects maths, foreign languages and chess but his financial circumstances in those days did not make it possible. The three children would have needed three different teacher-trainers.' True psychologists do not recommend siblings competing directly because they could become jealous and envious, and might even come to hate each other,' says Polgar.' This, however, can not take place if they are brought up properly.' Mrs Polgar had offered some refreshments; saucissons, gherkins, and bread and coffee. At the end of the collation the objects of this relentless pedagogical experiment were suddenly in the drawing room. Polgar rations their appearances in a natural wish to protect them from the media. They stood there in the room together, but at an angle to each other, half-smiling, the classical