How Long Have You Been Playing?

Yudit Polgar, from Hungary, is the first female to win the world mixed challenge against many grandmasters. Her father started her playing pawn wars at age four and she would become the youngest grandmaster in the world overall. David Epstein argues that intense specialization only works in kind of learning environments where patterns repeat over and over. He says when we leave that kind of controlled environment, the advantage of intense specialization evaporates.