Author: Larry S. Tamarkin
Date: 10:07:12 10/31/98
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See my reply to Fernando - That may help you keep some perspective of what that Book/movie was. As fine an author as Fred Waitzkin is, the reality of those times is much different and convoluted, then the Book or movie could possibly show... mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict! On October 31, 1998 at 12:59:00, Quenton Fyfe wrote: >On October 31, 1998 at 11:28:20, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>Hi Larry: >>Of course support is a very different thing. What the father or Waitskin did >>does not seems to me being just support. He definitively pushed the poor boy. Do >>You remember that part of the movie when a teacher talks about the "chess >>things" and then the faher gets angry and say that the kid will be better in >>that chess thing a lot more than she will ever be in his craft? >>The idiot surely believed he had crushed the teacher with that broadside, that >>he has proved something, but is not the case. The teacher was right. The chess >>thing was taking too much of the life of the kid and the fact that Waitzskin was >>going to be better chess player than she will be as a teacher was not relevant. >>Better to be an average happy boy that an angished chess genius at 8 years old. >>I love a lot this game but I never considered to put my daughters to play it. I >>would consider that a painful lose of time in a moment of his lives where >>another things are a lot more important than to know how to play the Ruy lópez. >>Waitskin was avictim of an stupid father, one of those guys that are all the >>time trying to use his children a test of how good they are as a family, a >>religion or etnic sect or whatever. >>Fernando > >Have you read the book that the movie is based on ? I have read the book (many >times) but sadly I missed the movie. > >My reason for asking is that I'd be surprised at you being so hard on Fred >Waitzkin if you've read the book - his thoughts and anxieties about pushing his >son too hard are very apparent in the book. I think he agonized about these >issues, (although we can still take a judgement on whether he was right or >wrong) and came over as a sensitive and caring parent. > >Perhaps these aspects didn't come through in the film. Hopefully I'll see it >one day, and then I'll know ! > >Regards > >Quenton Fyfe
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