What Happened to Chess Prodigy Peter Winston?

He went missing in 1978 and was never seen again.

Peter Winston (image courtesy of Chess Life Magazine)

Peter Winston’s story reminds me of ‘The Queen’s Gambit’. Though ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ was fictional TV series on Netflix, it highlighted the internal struggles of brilliance, mental health, and substance abuse. This missing person case is a little odd because a missing person file was never created…