Josh Waitzkin is depicted as the next Bobby Fischer in this movie and a genius chess prodigy. However, the portrayal is immensely exaggerated. Although he became an International Master at the age of sixteen (a title which most top players manage to attain much earlier, at the age of twelve to fourteen), as of 2020, he has not gained the top tier title of Grandmaster. His peak FIDE Elo rating was 2480 in 1998 at the age of twenty-two, which was then more than three hundred rating points lower than Garry Kasparov, who, at the time, topped the rankings. As of May 2017, 1,453 players worldwide and 82 players in the U.S. rated higher than Waitzkin.

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