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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. Five years later, 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.
At the age of 11, he and fellow prodigy K. The first master Waitzkin defeated was Edward Frumkin, in a game featuring a sacrifice of Waitzkin's 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.