This is Szymon Socko, son of GMs M. and B. Socko. He is playing in the 2009 Arctic Chess Challenge.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Young future GM
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This is Szymon Socko, son of GMs M. and B. Socko. He is playing in the 2009 Arctic Chess Challenge.
I hope he becomes a GM soon!!
The Polgars’ father once said: “Geniuses are made, not born.” And he actually proved it.
If this boy becomes a strong GM in the future, it will purely be from how he will be reared, not because he has “GM genes”. Nearly all the best chess wizards today have parents who are hardly good at chess.
He’ll be one next week at this rate.