Chess Prodigy Keeps His Fame in Check After `Bobby Fischer'

NEW YORK "Searching for Bobby Fischer" is the summer's most offbeatfamily movie, a true-life story about what might happen if your6-year-old became a chess prodigy.

When it happened to Fred Waitzkin, a professional writer, andhis wife, Bonnie, he wrote a book, Searching for Bobby Fischer, in1988.

Waitzkin, a chess fan, had originally planned a book thatlooked at the game and its champions. Instead, the focus was changedto show, he said, "how I felt about my son's talent and my wife,relative to the insanity of Josh and me living the chess life."

Now the movie, produced by Scott Rudin (whose "Little ManTate" was about a boy genius as well), tells the …