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Thread #132976   Message #3013435
Posted By: Slag
22-Oct-10 - 08:55 PM
Thread Name: I watched & listened in awe-Korean guitar prodigy
Subject: RE: I watched and listened in awe
Truly amazing! She was rocking with the music. I do not believe she was tortured into it but is a true prodigy

I recall the story of Jose Raul Capablanca, age three watching his father play chess at his home in Cuba. After his father's opponet departed, little Jose told his father "You cheated!" Taken aback, his father said "What do you know of chess? You are but an infant and know nothing of the game! Here! Show me what you know!"

With that little Jose set up the position in question from memory and demonstrated the error his father had made. Astounded, his father asked how he had learned the game. "From wathching you play with that man!" replied Jose. So his father set up the board and began to play with "Cappy" as he became known by. Game after game Cappy bested his father. By age five he was beating Masters and Grand Masters of the game. It happens. Some people are just born with a gift and I see in this Korean child a true gift.