Home > Casino News > 16 Dec 2004 Josh Waitzkin wins World Championship in Martial Arts
International Chess Master Josh Waitzkin defies odds winning the
Middleweight World Championship Title in Tai Chi Chuan Push Hands
(Fixed Step), and becomes the Middleweight World Co-Champion in Tai
Chi Chuan Push Hands (Moving Step), after competing in the 7th
Chung Hwa Cup International Tai Chi Chuan Championships in Taiwan
December 5th. Waitzkin, who came to fame as the subject of the
highly acclaimed book Searching For Bobby Fischer (written by his
father, Fred Waitzkin), was immortalized in the Paramount film of
the same name as a chess prodigy winning his first National
Championship. Waitzkin went on to dominate the scholastic chess
circuit, winning 8 National Chess Championship titles before the
age of 19. Waitzkin began studying Tai Chi Chuan with Grandmaster
William CC Chen (NYC) in '98. He has since won an unprecedented
total of 13 National Championship titles over the last five years
in the Middleweight, Light Heavyweight, and Heavyweight divisions.
He now adds two World Championship titles to his credit. In
November of '04 Waitzkin signed what is reported to be a $300,000
book deal with Simon and Schuster's Free Press (repd by Amanda
Urban, ICM) for his second book, an autobiographical discussion of
the learning process and performance psychology, scheduled for
release in 2006.
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