Page 197 - The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin_Neat plip book

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Josh Waitzkin, an eight-time National Ches s Cham pi on in his yout h, was the
subject of the book and movie Searching for Bobby Fischer. At eighteen, he

published his first book, Josh Waitzkin’s Attacking Chess. Since the age of twenty,
he has developed and been spokesper son for Ches smaster, the large st comput er
chess program in the world, currently in its eleventh edi tion. Now a martial
arts champion, he holds a combined twenty-one National Cham pi ons hi p titles
in addition to several World Champi ons hi p titles. He regul arly gives semina rs

and keynote presentations and is presiden t of the JW Foundat ion, a no npr ofi
devoted to maximizing each studen t’s uni que po tential thr ough an enr iche d
educational process.