A cartoon about the famous Hungarian chess players, Judit, Zsuzsa, and Zsófia Polgár, titled The Polgár Girls won the Best Hungarian Children’s Film award at the 3rd CINEMIRA International Children’s Film Festival.

CINEMIRA International Children’s Film Festival took place between October 24-25 at the Akvárium in Budapest, for the third time. More than 40 live-action and animated films made for children were screened. ‘The Golden Squirrel’ awards for the best films were decided by the professional jury, while the main prize winner of the festival, the winner of the ‘Best Hungarian Children’s Film,’ was chosen by a children’s jury. This year, ‘The Golden Squirrel Award’ for the ‘Best Hungarian Children’s Film’ and the three-hundred-thousand-forint cash prize were won by the animation entitled The Polgár Girls, by Ervin B. Nagy.

The children’s jury also gave special praise to Bori Mészáros’ stop-motion animation, The Last Yeti. The main prize of CINEMIRA’s video competition for children was shared by Máté Rudi’s Flowering Reef and Bence Mócsai’s Symbol. The special prize went to the works of Júlia Csáki (Zero Waste) and Király Dominik (Plastic Free).

The Polgár Girlsis a part of a sport-animation series, titled Cserebogarak. So far, the director and creator B. Nagy has made three episodes of famous Hungarian sportsman: the first episode shows Krisztina Egerszegi, five-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer, also known as Egér or Egérke (Little Mouse), the second is about six-time Olympic gold medalist fencer Rudolf Kárpáti, and the third one shows how the Polgár sisters took the chess world by storm.

All three episodes of the series were made for the Gyula Macskássy animation film competition. With the target audience in mind, each episode focuses on the childhood and youth of athletes, and concentrates on a different athlete and a different sport. With their seven-minute running time, the episodes tell the story of how “Little Mouse” trained with a can of liver cream on her forehead, what instrument the six-time Olympic champion Kárpáti played before he stepped into the fencing piste, or how the smallest Polgár girl, Judit, played chess for money to buy melon with her sisters.

The episode The Polgár Girls opens with ’80s chess world champion Garry Kasparov saying that he considers it impossible for female chess players to ever be on a par with male grand-masters. Then Zsuzsa, the first child of the Polgárs, both teachers, finds a chess piece in the living room drawer as a child, which leads her father to decide to raise his daughters as chess geniuses. The everyday lives of the three girls are spent studying, playing chess, ping-pong, playing games, and traveling under the supervision of their parents. At the same time, they beat their adult opponents one by one, even beating grand-masters at international championships…and Judit will one day find herself facing Kasparov at a competition.

source: Hungary Today

Az animációs film megnézése után döntsd el, hogy a 6 állítás igaz (T) vagy hamis (F) a film alapján.

1. Kasparov claims that he is convinced that women playing chess against men is absolutely impossible.
    
2. Zsuzsa found a chess piece in the drawer as a child.
    
3. The Polgár girls were educated at home by private teachers. 
    
4. Knight is huszár, Queen is vezér, Rook is bástya in Hungarian. 
    
5. Judit played chess against people in the park to collect enough money to buy a 5-kilo watermelon. 
    
6. Judit’s opponent in the 1987 Bruxelles chess tournament was Goodman. 

keys/megoldások:
1. F-almost impossible;
2. T;
3. F- by their parents;
4. T;
5. F-a 4-kilo watermelon; 6. F- Gutman

“One morning I came out of my room to see my mother packing. She said war is coming, we have to leave within 12 hours,” says Mr. Sárosy. Soon they were on a torpedo boat that took them to a port in Herzegovina and from there to a passenger ship to Trieste and finally to a train to Budapest.

It’s safe to say Mr. Sárosy is the only man in Canada who remembers where he was when the First World War started. He celebrated his 110th birthday on August 23, and while there are no individual Statistics Canada records to point to, that will likely make him the oldest man in Canada.

Today, Mr. Sárosy lives in a seniors’ home. Though he now uses a wheelchair to get around – at 102, he finally conceded he could use some help and got a mobility scooter – his mind is still sharp, perhaps from a lifetime of chess.

“He remembers the past but what amazes me is his short-term memory,” says Elena Yeryomenko, lifestyle program manager at the Chartwell Grenadier Retirement Residence Mr. Sárosy calls home. “It is phenomenal at this age to have such a sharp mind. He remembers his life as a child and he remembers what he had for breakfast.”

Mr. Sárosy is still curious about the new. The interview was being recorded on a smart phone, and he wanted to know how it works as a recorder. “A marvellous little machine,” he called it.

He has a computer he bought in 1999 to play chess. At the time he played correspondence chess where people from around the world would mail each other the next move. Since games could take four or five years, he felt that at 93 he might not be around to finish a game.

Mr. Sárosy was born in 1906 in Budapest, the second capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He started playing chess in public parks at the age of 10.

“I was with my mother and I saw a boy playing chess and I asked, ‘What is that?’ The next day I was back at the park. That boy’s mother wouldn’t let me play with him but I found others,” said Mr. Sárosy.

He continued playing in school and at university in Vienna, where he studied international trade. He graduated in 1928 and returned to Budapest where he continued his chess career. He was soon a grandmaster.

“In 1943, I played in the Hungarian championship and gained the Hungarian [chess] master title,” he says.

Young Zoltán was fluent in Hungarian and German, a skill that probably saved his life in the Second World War. In 1944, he volunteered as a translator when other Hungarian men his age were drafted and sent to the Eastern Front.

At the end of the war he fled Hungary, worried that Russians might have him imprisoned for being a military translator. He left his wife and daughter behind. He later sent for them when he was in Canada, but his wife refused to leave Hungary so they divorced.

Once over the border in Austria, he managed to find a room in Salzburg, then moved to a refugee camp. He then drifted across Europe, ending up in Alsace, the German-speaking province taken back by France after the war. In 1950, he read that Canada was looking for immigrants and he went to Paris to get papers.

He arrived in Halifax on Dec. 27, 1950, and then took the train to Toronto. He soon found a room on Kendall Avenue and work laying tiles on an upper floor at the new Bank of Nova Scotia building at King and Bay in January, 1951.

“I started my career in Toronto at a high level,” he jokes.

He didn’t like working for other people. “I wanted to be independent, so I started selling cosmetics. Eventually I thought it was much better if I imported them myself,” he says.

After several years, he bought a convenience store which he ran until the late 1970s. All the while, he still played chess. He won his first championship in Canada in 1955 and was Canadian Correspondence Champion in 1967, 1972 and 1981. He is a member of the Canadian Chess Hall of Fame.

After divorcing his first wife, he married Heino Mallo, an Estonian immigrant, in Canada. His daughter from Hungary came to visit him in Canada at one stage with the intention of living here. “She didn’t want to stay, silly girl,” says Mr. Sárosy.

He and his wife lived on Royal York Road in Mimico, just west of downtown Toronto, a couple of hundred metres from Lake Ontario. His wife died in 1998 and he sold his house and moved into the Grenadier home in 2000. For the next decade he was completely mobile, did his own shopping and walked everywhere. When he was about 102 he started riding a mobility scooter, and used that until two years ago.

Mr. Sárosy laughs when asked about the secret to his long life.

He has a couple of ideas: He tried smoking when he was a teenager, but he didn’t like it so he quit; he was a light drinker, just the occasional brandy. But he still hasn’t figured it all out quite yet.

“I’m still working on the formula. However, when I get it, I’ll go to the patent office,” he says. “I’m like an old used car with rusty body, wobb ly wheels but a good engine.”

source: theglobeandmail.com

Homeless man plays ‘tramp chess’ with Cambridge students and regularly beats them

A homeless man is offering a game of chess in return for ‘donations’ in an ingenious effort to bypass begging laws. Slide Martins challenges locals to a game but doesn’t officially charge for it, instead, he says, just graciously accepts any contributions. ‘Offering chess for free means the police can’t arrest me for begging because I am offering something – and I always carry spare pieces in case someone steals one,’ he told Cambridge News.

Mr Martins, along with his two dogs Check and Mate camp in various parts of the university city with a sign declaring ‘free chess’. ‘I do get beat[en] occasionally but I do mostly win. They are not very bright in Cambridge – they wouldn’t have to go to college if they were,’ he added. ‘I play with the students in the park if the weather is good. Otherwise I set up in streets in Cambridge and challenge people to a game.’ The former chef says he has been travelling the length and breadth of the country for the last 35 years. He admitted he likes a drink and becomes a much better chess player the drunker he gets.

Mr Martins doesn’t appear to be the first person in the city to take advantage of the loophole – one homeless woman holds a penny whistle and says she is ‘busking’ when officers challenge her. Sgt Kevin Misik, of Cambridgeshire police, confirmed: ‘The acts described are not offences of begging under the Vagrancy Act therefore are not enforceable by police officers.’

source: www.metro.co.uk

homeless – hajléktalan
donation – adomány
ingenious – találékony, eszes
to bypass – megkerülni valamit
begging laws – koldulásra vonatkozó törvények
to accept – elfogandi
to charge for – díjat, pénzt kérni valamiért
spare piece – pót sakkbábu
Check and Mate – Sakk és Matt
occasionally – néha-néha
bright – okos
otherwise – máskülönben
to offer – felajánlani valamit
to challenge someone – kihívni valakit pl. versenyre
former – korábbi, előző
the length and breadth of – keresztül-kasul
to admit – beismerni
to take advantage of – kihasználni
loophole – kiskapu (törvényben)
penny whistle – hatlyukú fém furulya
busking – utcazenélés
to confirm – megerősíteni
offence – szabálysértés
Vagrancy Act – csavargással kapcsolatos törvény
therefore – ezért, ennélfogva
enforceable – végrehajtható 

Match the opposites.

answers: 1-c 2-d 3-a 4-e 5-b

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