Former local chess prodigy says chess skills helped him succeed in business

Former teenage chess prodigy IM Josh Manion was well known among Chicago area chess players during the height of his chess playing days in the early 1990s. While he rolled up his chessboard many years ago after enrolling as a student at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he considers the skills he honed over the board key to his successful entrepreneurial career. Manion, who grew up in Wisconsin, also found true love through chess. He is married to to former Illinois junior high chess champion Julie Oberweis, who he met a a chess tournament. Read my full story from the April 2011 Chess Life, courtesy of the United States Chess Federation.