24 Facts About Bruce Pandolfini

Bruce Pandolfini was born on September 17,1947 and is an American chess author, teacher, and coach.

In 1983, Pandolfini was the chess consultant to author Walter Tevis for the novel The Queen's Gambit.

Bruce Pandolfini returned as consultant for the 2020 Netflix miniseries of the same name.

Bruce Pandolfini was born in Lakewood, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York.

Bruce Pandolfini was browsing in a public library, when he came upon the chess section.

Bruce Pandolfini took out an initial batch of six books and then went back enough times that day to clear out the entire section.

Bruce Pandolfini's playing career ended in 1970 after a loss to Grandmaster Larry Evans at the National Open in Las Vegas in 1970.

Bruce Pandolfini served as an assistant to Shelby Lyman, the show's moderator, and at the time, America's top chess teacher.

Bruce Pandolfini remained on the faculty of the New School until 1991.

In 1984, Bruce Pandolfini became the executive director of the Manhattan Chess Club, then at Carnegie Hall, a position he retained until 1987.

Several years later, Bruce Pandolfini was featured in Fred Waitzkin's book Searching for Bobby Fischer, a perceptive narrative on his talented son Josh and Josh's successes in the world of children's chess.

Bruce Pandolfini was the film's chief chess consultant, training the actors and creating the scenario chess positions.

Subsequent films Bruce Pandolfini consulted on were Fresh and Point of No Return.

Bruce Pandolfini was a consultant to The Queen's Gambit, a 2020 American Netflix miniseries, where he had a cameo role as a tournament director.

Bruce Pandolfini had been a consultant to the original 1983 novel, for which he suggested the title.

Bruce Pandolfini's books have been influential and continue to be steady bestsellers.

Not only has Bruce Pandolfini relied on terse, often epigrammatic phrasings of principles, he typically provides useful constructs for remembering and reinforcing them.

One aspect that Bruce Pandolfini has codified nicely concerns planning, an area of chess thinking with which students tend to have difficulty.

Apart from commenting on the Fischer-Spassky match, Bruce Pandolfini appeared as a guest commentator at the 2016 Carlsen-Karjakin match that took place in New York City.

Bruce Pandolfini appeared as a guest commentator at the 2021 Candidates Tournament and predicted that Carlsen might lose the match to the challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi.

Bruce Pandolfini has written a monthly column for the magazine Chess Life titled The ABC's of Chess since 1979.

Bruce Pandolfini has to his credit more than thirty titles on the game of chess.

Some of Bruce Pandolfini's output has been criticized for its inaccuracy and lack of sources.

In 2011 Bruce Pandolfini was elected to the American Chess Journalists Hall of Fame, and in 2012, he was named as Chess Educator of the Year by University of Texas at Dallas.