Talk:Joshua Waitzkin

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"Josh is also active in the fight against Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy."

does this mean he has the disease, and is fighting it - i.e. getting on with his life - or that he doesn't have the disease, but supports charities and raises money for them? Saccerzd 16:09, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

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At the age of ten, Waitzkin beat E. Frumkin, the first grandmaster he ever defeated.

According to the FIDE website [1] there is an Edward Frumkin rated 2107, but he isn't a grandmaster - he doesn't have any FIDE title at all. Is this person a different Frumkin (now deceased, hence not on the FIDE site) or was this Frumkin not actually a GM (maybe a USCF National Master or something like that)? --Camembert

OK, I see we've got him listed as Edward in the article now, but as I say, he's not a grandmaster. I don't know the details of this, but something needs to be changed here. Where is this info that Frumkin was the first "grandmaster" he beat coming from? --Camembert

Waitzkin talks about this game in the program Chessmaster 9000, and refers to Frumkin as the first master he ever beat, not the first grandmaster, so I made the change. More specifically, he calls Frumkin a "Lifetime U.S. Master" - TalkHard

Ah, that makes more sense. Thanks. --Camembert