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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 »

Let’s talk about Josh Waitzkin

Recently I reread a very good article about Josh Waitzkin from Betsy’s blog “Chess Parents and Kids”(It is pity that Betsy left her blog at November, 2008. We would like to see her back). Many of you know Josh was being featured in the movie “Searching for Bobby Fisher”, he was a chess prodigy and [...]

Thursday November 5th, 2009 in , chess, child, freedom, Josh Waitzkin, kid, parenting, prodigy, scholastic, Searching for Bobby Fisher | 2 Comments »

Trick or Treat!

I know it is a sweet day for kids. A lot of candies! Yeah! In addition, it is a sweet day for me too, not because of the candies I could share, but because of the expression “Trick or Treat!”. Last winter break, Abe started to play in rated scholastic chess tournament. He and I [...]