![]() ![]() ”I have a special treat,” Susan, 36, announced in her gentle Hungarian accent. ”Tonight, everyone will get to play me.” Blitz chess it was each opponent received five minutes on his clock to Susan’s one. She first sat across from a young Serbian man. The two began slamming pieces and punching down their side of the clock, creating a percussive sound track to their lightning fast moves. Susan beat him with a good 30 seconds to spare. A retired bartender and a 14 year old boy succumbed almost as quickly. A reluctant 9 year old suffering from an allergy attack was then coaxed to step up to the challenge. ”Don’t worry about your eyes everybody loses to her anyway,” his mom said helpfully. The boy’s minutes slipped away to inevitable loss. ”Once you have a winning position,” Susan said, ”play with your hands, not your head. Trust your intuition.” When Susan was the age of many of her students, she dominated the New York Open chess competition. At 16 she crushed several adult opponents and landed on the front page of The New York Times. The tournament was abuzz not just with the spectacle of one pretty young powerhouse: Susan’s raven haired sister Sophia, 11, swept most of the games in her section, too. But the pudgy baby of the family, 9 year old Judit, drew the most gawkers of all. ![]()
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