"Soon thereafter, she dominated the city's girls-under-age-11 tournament with a perfect score."[1] Judit was able to defeat her father at chess when she was just five.[9] "For me, learning chess was natural; with my sisters around me, I wanted to play," said Judit in 2008.[3] The family, she noted, had been the target of "some vicious anti-Semitism" during the girls’ childhood. At age 12, she "got a letter, with a picture of my father with his eyes [gouged] out; and very nasty words." Largely because of the anti-Semitism and criticism they had to endure, there was "no jealousy" among the sisters, Judit said in 2008 that these challenges "kept us bound together."[8]