Chess Term of the Day: Prodigy. A word from the latin prodigium meaning sign or omen. Anyone showing extraordinary skill or talent is a prodigy. It has now in common parlance come to mean a young person with surprisingly good skills at Chess. This is technically a mis-use of the the original word as it neither refers to age being a factor or the now almost certain expectation that any youngster in a chess tournament is a prodigy is a misnomer. It is more accurate to describe a performance as prodigious, For example, Fabiano Caruana won 7 games in a row at the super grandmaster tournament in Saint Louis is most certainly a most prodigious showing that lead to him assuming the world #2 mantle.
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 08:26:45 +0000
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