 Pehme attended The Dalton School in Manhattan with Josh Waitzkin, the subject of the book and film "Searching for Bobby Fischer".Morgan and Kalev Pehme are minor characters in the film.Pehme is a former United States National Scholastic Chess Champion (1993 National Junior High School Championship)[1] and represented the United States in the Boys Under 12 section of the 1990 World Youth Chess Festival for Peace in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.