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Joshua Waitzkin is an American international master, martial arts competitor, and writer. Waitzkin's stellar success as a chess player during his early years was the subject of the book and movie "Searching for Bobby Fischer."

Chess Career

Josh Waitzkin became fascinated with chess when he was six years old after seeing people playing the game in Washington Square Park in New York City. According to Waitzkin, the park's chess hustlers were his first chess teachers and taught him the aggressive playing style he cultivated throughout his career.

After playing at that park for a year, Waitzkin grabbed the attention of legendary chess trainer NM Bruce Pandolfini. The renowned coach took Waitzkin under his wing and helped to propel him into the competitive chess world.

After two years of training, Waitzkin took the chess world by storm. He won the National Primary Championship in 1986, the National Junior High Championship in 1988 (despite being only in fifth grade), and the National Elementary Championship in 1989.

The game below shows Waitzkin's combative "chess hustler" styl

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"...Brilliant creations are often born of small errors."
- Josh Waitzkin

Foiling

Fatherhood shifted something in Josh, navigating him toward nurturing and away from fighting. In many ways, this shift brought him back to where it all began: the water. Fight sports had been about managing and manipulating other bodies and minds. But the call back to the water was in many ways about surrendering to and receiving the ocean’s power.

As a young boy, Josh’s intense stretches of chessic competition were punctuated by summers at sea aboard an old family fishing boat, the Ebb Tide, trolling for blue marlin, spearfishing for meals in sharky waters, and navigating the perils of open ocean life as a family while anchoring out for weeks at a time between Bahamian islands.

Away from Bruce Pandolfini, his first chess instructor, the water served as Josh’s teacher. He learned to be at peace in intense storms, at ease in its depths spearfishing and freediving surrounded by predators, and intently focused reading the signs of the ocean in pursuit of large gamefish.

In some ways, transition

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Joshua Waitzkin

American chess player, martial arts competitor, and author (born 1976)

Joshua Waitzkin (born December 4, 1976) is an American former chess player, martial arts world champion, and author. As a child, he was recognized as a prodigy, and won the U.S. Junior Chess championship in 1993 and 1994. The film Searching for Bobby Fischer is based on his early life.

Early life and education

Waitzkin first noticed the game of chess being played while walking with his mother in New York City's Washington Square Park at the age of six. At age seven, Waitzkin began studying the game with his first formal teacher Bruce Pandolfini.^[2] During his years as a student at Dalton he led the school to win seven national team championships between the third and ninth grades, in addition to his eight individual titles. In 1999, Waitzkin enrolled at Columbia University, where he studied philosophy.^[3]^[4]