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Who is Josh Waitskin ( I don't know)!!!!
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Feb 7, 2017
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#3
An internet search engine might freak out trying to parse 40+ exclamation marks...
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alternately
you can look it up in wikipedia.
you'd be surprised how many articles they have.
not every chess player is in there- but being a chess prodigy made famous by the movie "searching for bobby fischer", he's popular enough to be described in the wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Waitzkin
Feb 7, 2017
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#6
He's that guy who missed taking a hanging castle in a critical game a long time ago.
It was actually pretty ugly....& sad.
Let me answer that for you...oh wait, I see now, it has no question mark but many many exclamations marks.
I see.
So it wasn't a question at all.
Guess then it needs no answer either.
WHY ARE THE PEOPLE TO WRITE BACK TROLLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
there see, you can ask a question will exclamation marks.
thegreat_patzer hat geschrieben:
WHY ARE THE PEOPLE TO WRITE BACK TROLLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
there see, you can ask a question will exclamation marks.
Wasn't a question, obviously.
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Feb 7, 2017
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#11
He's an IM, but as far as I know he's been inactive for more than 15 years. Not sure what he's up to these days. At one point he made it big in martial arts as well, but that too is a thing of the past. I think he was very strong as a child/teenager (some regarded him as the next Bobby Fischer) but as he grew into adulthood he got involved less and less with chess (though his peak rating was a very respectable 2480). I guess he's known for 2 reasons:
- Searching for Bobby Fischer
- The Josh Waitzkin Academy series in Chessmaster
He was also a former world tai chi champion.
Feb 7, 2017
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#13
....and someone said that he could eat a whole buncha hot dogs at one time.
But I think they're mistaking him for glen kobeeashi.
(sorry, I couldn't help myself....)
StupidGM wrote:
alinfe wrote:
He's an IM, but as far as I know he's been inactive for more than 15 years. Not sure what he's up to these days. At one point he made it big in martial arts as well, but that too is a thing of the past. I think he was very strong as a child/teenager (some regarded him as the next Bobby Fischer) but as he grew into adulthood he got involved less and less with chess (though his peak rating was a very respectable 2480). I guess he's known for 2 reasons:
- Searching for Bobby Fischer
- The Josh Waitzkin Academy series in Chessmaster
2480 for a kid who consumed all the chess resources he did is not what I'd call successful.
He was very well paid for a non-gm.
Chess wasnt his "thing"
For something that wasnt his passion, 2480 is pretty amazing.
Feb 7, 2017
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Diakonia wrote:
StupidGM wrote:
alinfe wrote:
He's an IM, but as far as I know he's been inactive for more than 15 years. Not sure what he's up to these days. At one point he made it big in martial arts as well, but that too is a thing of the past. I think he was very strong as a child/teenager (some regarded him as the next Bobby Fischer) but as he grew into adulthood he got involved less and less with chess (though his peak rating was a very respectable 2480). I guess he's known for 2 reasons:
- Searching for Bobby Fischer
- The Josh Waitzkin Academy series in Chessmaster
2480 for a kid who consumed all the chess resources he did is not what I'd call successful.
He was very well paid for a non-gm.
Chess wasnt his "thing"
For something that wasnt his passion, 2480 is pretty amazing.
I think he just didn't want to do what was necessary to get any higher. It's kinda like how Nakamura basically had to change his style before he started to play well against 2700 players. I don't think Josh would ever be interested in something like that. He seemed to want to do what felt best to him and not what people told him he needed to do.
penandpaper0089 wrote:
Diakonia wrote:
StupidGM wrote:
alinfe wrote:
He's an IM, but as far as I know he's been inactive for more than 15 years. Not sure what he's up to these days. At one point he made it big in martial arts as well, but that too is a thing of the past. I think he was very strong as a child/teenager (some regarded him as the next Bobby Fischer) but as he grew into adulthood he got involved less and less with chess (though his peak rating was a very respectable 2480). I guess he's known for 2 reasons:
- Searching for Bobby Fischer
- The Josh Waitzkin Academy series in Chessmaster
2480 for a kid who consumed all the chess resources he did is not what I'd call successful.
He was very well paid for a non-gm.
Chess wasnt his "thing"
For something that wasnt his passion, 2480 is pretty amazing.
I think he just didn't want to do what was necessary to get any higher. It's kinda like how Nakamura basically had to change his style before he started to play well against 2700 players. I don't think Josh would ever be interested in something like that. He seemed to want to do what felt best to him and not what people told him he needed to do.
He also had other interests. Chess wasnt the only thing in the world to him.
Feb 8, 2017
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badenwurtca wrote:
He is a guy who made a lot of people very angry and very envious as well. He made it all the way up into the IM ranks but then he walked away from Competitive Chess ( & for some odd reason that upset a lot of folks lol ). PS: I gather he felt that he would be unable to reach the GM level.
Nah I'm pretty sure he just lost interest in it. He talks about this some in his book. I think he just didn't want to have to change his style to climb the ranks because his style was important to him. It was part of who he was and everyone was telling him not to be that guy.
I think some people were upset because they felt some ridiculous sense of entitlement to have a "next Bobby Fischer" to root for. It's pretty crazy. As far as I know he really didn't like being compared to Fischer and who can blame him?
Feb 8, 2017
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penandpaper0089 wrote:
I think some people were upset because they felt some ridiculous sense of entitlement to have a "next Bobby Fischer" to root for. It's pretty crazy. As far as I know he really didn't like being compared to Fischer and who can blame him?
Yeah but I think the BF comparison was overused in his case. Maybe the public saw him that way but in chess circles, as far as I know, nobody spoke of him in those terms. After all Fischer made GM by age 15, while Josh was barely a FM. Again, very strong for somebody not 100% devoted to chess, but not quite in the same league with Fischer.
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