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Jeff Sarwer—From a child chess prodigy to a successful poker player

I know that many people have heard of Jeff, either by watching this video or reading this wonderful interview by Jennifer Shahade. I recently read the book “Searching for Bobby Fisher” by Fred Waitzkin. (Not the movie as I talked in other posts). Although this book is about the author’s son, another chess prodigy named [...]

Friday January 15th, 2010 in , chess, dad, Jeff Sarwer, Josh Waitzkin, kid, parenting, prodigy | 7 Comments »

The chess scorebook

Disclaimer: The story was based on what happened yesterday. How could that happen to me? It’s all my fault. My wife was complaining that I always have a problem not be able to get organized. “Do you know you look cumbersome when you drag everything by your hands instead of putting most in you bag?” [...]

Monday December 28th, 2009 in , analysis, chess, computer software, dad, encouragement, Holiday, kid, scorebook | No Comments »

Garrison Keillor: Being a dad

I started to be a fan of Garrison Keillor about eight years ago. Every weekend, I would eager to hear his A Prairie Home Companion on the radio. I borrowed all his stuff from the local library: cassettes, CDs, DVDs and books. Enjoy the following monologue I found from YouTube. Being a Dad is full [...]

Thursday December 3rd, 2009 in , A Prairie Home Companion, dad, Garrison Keilor, library, monologue, YouTube | No Comments »

Abe and me, the journey started

About three years ago, once I was roaming in the local library, I found the library would have a class named something like “Chess for Beginners”. So I brought Abe to the class; several kids showed up, along with their parents. The class was very basic, covering how to set the board and how to [...]