Why would he owe it to us?
Josh Waitzkin Please Return to Chess
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He was about 20 years old and an IM, wasn't he? Perhaps if he had become a serious professional player he could have become a GM, perhaps even join the top-500 or so. but to say he'd be in the top-20 is pure fantasy. Of the USA, perhaps...
it is his choice and to say that him quiting deprived us is selfish. leave him alone he does what he likes.
Maybe he will return to competitive chess, who knows? Here is a game I found where he defeats Zsofia Polgar in Bermuda 1995:
Scarblac wrote:
He was about 20 years old and an IM, wasn't he? Perhaps if he had become a serious professional player he could have become a GM, perhaps even join the top-500 or so. but to say he'd be in the top-20 is pure fantasy. Of the USA, perhaps...
Man I don't care if he was an American or from Zimbabwe, I just ment that guy was promising. Personally, I root for Ivan Šarić, a young 18 yo GM from my hometown Split - Croatia. He is yet to be heard of...
Does anyone know why Josh Waitzkin got fed up with chess and went training oriental martial arts? He was/is a super talent who gave up competitive chess some years ago few points away of obtaining a grandmaster title. I think it's a shame because a man of his inteligence and talent who possessed chess strength of a GM would be among top 20 players in a world today, not to mention that he deprived us of some remarkable games that he could have accomplished. So pretty please with sugar on top: "get back to chess man, you owe it to us all!"