The snowstorm that claimed the young genius (6 photos)

For children recognized as geniuses, this status is a heavy burden. Often parenting in the style of "my child is the best" compensate for their complexes and unfulfilled hopes. Weak children's the psyche suffers because it is in the formative stage, as well as social skills.





This boy was not a far-fetched child prodigy. IN for a year and a half he really knew how to read. At the age of five, he understood history and mathematics at the graduate level. But Peter's true passion Winston, who was born in 1958 in New York, were chess.



Peter

The boy's parents were teachers, his sister studied at art school. Pete himself also entered a school for gifted children when grew up He studied chess on his own - he studied books, asked his father. Unfortunately, he died when the boy turned 10 years old. Apparently, a stressful situation from the loss of a native made the boy completely immerse himself in the world of chess. AND so successfully that Peter's moves were understood by professional publications.

By adolescence, despite the charisma, energy and the love of others, the guy did not feel happy - he rushed about, looked for himself, changed schools. And periodically plunged into a strange trance. Apparently so the psyche tried to cope with stress due to a clear mismatch brilliant mathematical mind with the consciousness of a teenager with all emerging problems.

For a short time, the teacher helped to find harmony in the next experimental school. But when the teacher quit, Peter again plunged into depression. And managed to beat between times in a friendly duel between current grandmaster and three-time US champion Walter Sean Brown. The boy at that time was only 14 years old.

But he could not continue his further career: mental problems. Doctors suspected schizophrenia: the guy suffered insomnia, ignored the rules of hygiene, completely withdrew from society. The decision was made to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital. clinic.

Where are you, Peter?



At the end of January 1978, an anomalous event occurred in the States. blizzard "The Great Blizzard of 1978". It was at this time that Peter met friend Charles Hertan and went with him to the hippodrome, where lost the rest of the money. Sister Wind took him in at night.

Both a relative and a friend noted the strange behavior of the guy - incoherent speech, depressed state, poor appearance. From sister Peter escaped and went to another friend. In whose house at dinner he talked about grandiose plans, a trip to Texas and the “god of chess” Walter Korn.

Then the guy disappeared again. The blizzard just started. City became paralyzed. And the victims of the disaster were several dozen people, many of whom were found on the street and buried in the countryside cemetery as unidentified.



Aftermath of the 1978 blizzard in Massachusetts

Given the way of life and his habit of disappearing without warnings, neither relatives nor friends were immediately alarmed. Anxiety scored only by mid-February. But Peter seemed to have vanished into thin air. Three main versions of what happened were put forward:

A suicide orchestrated so that the body was never found. The guy's intellect quite allowed him to do this.

Death in a snowstorm followed by burial as a vagabond.

Exacerbation of a mental disorder. As a result whom the young man lost his memory and was placed in a hospital. Where is the memory did not recover due to treatment or deterioration. Either Peter I just didn't want to go back to society anymore.



Aftermath of the 1978 blizzard in Massachusetts

The mother of a missing genius who is forever 19 years old repeatedly hired detectives to find at least some clues. But unsuccessfully. The woman died in 2010, until the last days refusing to speak to the press.

My sister is already over 70, and she also categorically refuses interview. The fate of a young child prodigy who easily put checkmate in game, but got them too early in life, and remains unknown by this day.