Joshua Waitzkin
This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
This goo was worth a point in August 2026.
publication date: Friday, August 28, 2026 (part of August 2026)
category: 
Games
clue: He was knighted as a child prodigy with a famous book and movie that compared him to a king of the sport, and later recorded tutorials for a video game that made him a pawn of players eager to learn his strategies.
explanation: Waitzkin was a child chess prodigy who inspired the book and film Searching for Bobby Fischer. He later recorded tutorials for the Chessmaster video game series. more…
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm and Richard Slominsky
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