Mr. Kristof should not be so easily seduced by the story of a chess prodigy.
This week's New Yorker has a fascinating article about the chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen.
It wasn't actually about Fischer, but based on the life of another chess prodigy, Joshua Waitzkin.
Theories had a child chess prodigy hidden away, or a chess-playing monkey.
Mr. Turturro plays Alexander Luzhin, an eccentric chess prodigy tormented by memories of an unhappy childhood.
He is not the only chess prodigy to have emerged in recent years.
He's been training in Norway against 18-year-old "chess prodigy" Magnus Carlsen.
This was like a chess prodigy being mentored by Bobby Fischer.
A chess prodigy, Mr. Friedman at 7 played the grandmaster Sam Reshevsky, who won only with some trouble.
The London-based firm, founded by chess prodigy Demis Hassabis, specialises in algorithms and machine learning for e-commerce and games.
The question of who is a chess prodigy may need to be rethought because there are many more elite young players than there once were.
