If you’ve ever read books about learning or chess history, you’ve likely heard the name Laszlo Polgar before. Polgar was a Hungarian psychologist who dedicated his life to training his three daughters to become chess champions (he was interested in studying the creation of genius, as to whether it was innate or cultivated).
He chose chess for his genius-cultivating endeavor because it was something in which was fairly structured and systematic. In the end, he succeeded quite dramatically, with two of the sisters becoming the best female chess players ever and the other sister becoming a “mere” International Master (one step removed from the highest Grandmaster level).
One fun fact is that in the course of training his daughters in chess, he single-handedly created one of the largest chess databases in the world (perhaps only rivaled by the Soviet secret archives!)