ABCNews NOW: Perspectives with JuJu Chang. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Josh Waitzkin: The Art of Learning (videotape) (News feature segment). On April 23, 2010, Waitzkin married Desiree Cifre, a screenwriter and former contestant on The Amazing Race. Waitzkin is the co-founder of and The Marcelo Garcia Academy, a Brazilian jiu-jitsu school located in New York City. Waitzkin is also a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under world champion and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu phenomenon Marcelo Garcia. Chen's US Push Hands Team to several titles at the Tai Chi World Cup in Taiwan, guiding teammates Jan Lucanus and Jan C. Waitzkin also became a championship coach, leading Grandmaster William C. He holds several US national medals and a 2004 world champion title in the competitive sport of Taiji Push Hands ( Taiji Tui Shou). Waitzkin has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans.Īs a young adult, Waitzkin's focus shifted to the martial art Taiji. He is also the spokesperson for the Chessmaster video game series, and is featured in the game giving advice and game analysis. Junior Chess Champion (1995) and The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance (2008), an autobiographical discussion of the learning process and performance psychology drawn from Waitzkin's experiences in both chess and the martial arts. Waitzkin is the author of two books: Attacking Chess: Aggressive Strategies, Inside Moves from the U.S. The real Waitzkin (16 years old at that time) can be seen wearing a black jacket/white hoodie playing chess right next to the film's version of Waitzkin and is sitting across from Josh's father (Joe Mantegna). Waitzkin makes a cameo in the film, in a scene in the last quarter of the movie (at 1:21:52) where his father is watching a young Josh play Vinnie ( Laurence Fishburne) from a bench. The script for Paramount Pictures' 1993 film Searching for Bobby Fischer (released in the United Kingdom as Innocent Moves) was based on a 1988 book by Waitzkin's father, Fred Waitzkin: Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess. It was something that I loved so deeply that when I started to become alienated from it, I couldn't do it in an impure way. And I guess if I were to be a little bit more true, I would say that I became separated from my love I became alienated from chess somewhat … The need that I felt to win, to win, to win all the time, as opposed to the freedom to explore the art more and more deeply, and I think that started to move me away from the game and also chess for me was so intimate. When people ask me why I stopped playing chess … I tend to say that I lost the love. Waitzkin has also stated in an interview his reasoning for leaving chess Waitzkin has not played in a US Chess Federation tournament since 1999, and his last FIDE tournament was before 2000. At age 13, he earned the title of National Master, and at age 16 became an International Master. Karanja were the only two children to draw with World Champion Garry Kasparov in an exhibition event where Kasparov played simultaneously against 59 youngsters. Īt ten years old, Waitzkin played a notable game featuring a sacrifice of his queen and rook in exchange for a checkmate six moves later. In 1999, Waitzkin enrolled at Columbia University, where he studied philosophy. During his years as a student at Dalton he led the school to win seven national team championships between the third and ninth grades, in addition to his eight individual titles. At age seven, Waitzkin began studying the game with his first formal teacher Bruce Pandolfini. Waitzkin first noticed the game of chess being played while walking with his mother in New York City's Washington Square Park at the age of six.
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