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A first review of “Chess Child” by Gary Robson

About months ago, I pre-ordered the book: Chess Child: The story of Ray Robson, America’s Youngest Grandmaster. I received it two days ago, finished reading it yesterday. It has been long long time since I finish reading a book in one day, not even the book Searching for Bobby Fisher. What a great father-son story. [...]

Thursday June 3rd, 2010 in , book, chess, child, parents, Ray Robson, review, Searching for Bobby Fisher | No 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 [...]