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Joshua Waitzkin (born December 4, 1976) is an American former chess player, martial arts world champion, and author. As a child, he was recognized as a prodigy, and won the U.S. Junior Chess championship in 1993 and 1994.
The Western actor played chess frequently on movie sets according to both biographers Ronald L. Davis and Herb Fagan. His onscreen characters play chess in the films McLintock! and 3 Godfathers. Roger Ebert recalls that on the set of Chisum, "we were playing a chess game, both of us bending over the board on an upended apple crate. Wayne ...
Teenager Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest-ever undisputed classical chess world champion after beating Ding Liren 7.5-6.5 in their best-of-14 final in Singapore on Thursday.
A chess prodigy is a young child who possesses an aptitude for the game of chess that far exceeds what might be expected at their age. Their prodigious talent will often enable them to defeat experienced adult players and even titled chess masters. Some chess prodigies have progressed to become grandmasters or even World Chess Champions.
Chess players ordered by peak FIDE rating in 2010s Country Player Peak rating in 2010s Achieved 1 Magnus Carlsen: 2882 2014-05 2 Fabiano Caruana: 2844 2014-10 3 Levon Aronian: 2830 2014-03 4 Wesley So: 2822 2017-02 5 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov: 2820 2018-09 6 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave: 2819 2016-08 7 Viswanathan Anand: 2817 2011-03 Vladimir Kramnik ...
Alongside her sister, Botez runs the Twitch channel BotezLive, which, as of May 2022, has 1.1 million followers with more than 18.3 million views. [15] She began assisting her sister in 2020 [16] by playing chess and in other variety streams and the YouTube channel BotezLive, which, as of May 2022, has over 800k subscribers and 140 million views. [17]
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She began playing chess at the age of 7, and studied under grandmaster Walter Arencibia. She won the U12 category of the Central American and Caribbean Championship, and the U14 Havana Provincial Championship. She immigrated to the United States in 2014, winning the U19 Susan Polgar Girls' Invitational at the age of 12. [1]