The protagonist of the 1993 film Searching for Bobby Fischer is not Bobby Fischer, but what chess prodigy from New York City?

As a child in New York City, Joshua Waitzkin won the U.S. Junior Chess championship in 1993 and 1994. Young Waitzkin first learned how to play chess by watching the players in the seedy Washington Square Park, a place full of illegal gambling, homeless players, and drugs.

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