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Trash-talking Washington Square Park chess hustler bested by Grandmaster Maurice Ashley
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BY KATE FELDMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, February 17, 2016, 1:21 PM
Checkmate.
If anyone could beat a sidewalk scam artist at his own chess game, a Grandmaster is the perfect person to do it.
Just inside Washington Square Park, Maurice Ashley sits down at a table and shakes hands with a man in a knit beanie.
His opponent moves his first pawn and the two are off.
Throughout the four-minute video, which was filmed as part of “The Tim Ferriss Experiment” show, the hustler trash talks Ashley and ribs him as the game continues.
GRANDMASTER MAURICE ASHLEY/VIA YOUTUBE
Grandmaster Maurice Ashley, right, sat down in Washington Square Park for a game of chess.
But once Ashley, who shared the win for the United States championship in 1992, catches the man trying to take two knights off the board in one turn, the hustler quiets down.
By the end of the video, the man realizes his fate and starts asking for the cameras to be turned off.
Only when Ashley officially introduces himself does the man seem to recognize one of the best chess players in the world.
“I was schooled by the best hustlers back in the day!” Ashley wrote in the video caption.
“This was actually in Washington Square Park where the late great Vinnie Livermore used to beat my a-- at that same table!”
kfeldman@nydailynews.com
Washington Square Park chess hustler beaten by grandmaster
Trash-talking Washington Square Park chess hustler bested by Grandmaster Maurice Ashley
SEE IT: Trash-talking Washington Square Park chess hustler bested by Grandmaster Maurice Ashley
BY KATE FELDMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, February 17, 2016, 1:21 PM
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Checkmate.
If anyone could beat a sidewalk scam artist at his own chess game, a Grandmaster is the perfect person to do it.
Just inside Washington Square Park, Maurice Ashley sits down at a table and shakes hands with a man in a knit beanie.
His opponent moves his first pawn and the two are off.
Throughout the four-minute video, which was filmed as part of “The Tim Ferriss Experiment” show, the hustler trash talks Ashley and ribs him as the game continues.
Grandmaster Maurice Ashley, right, sat down in Washington Square Park for a game of chess.
But once Ashley, who shared the win for the United States championship in 1992, catches the man trying to take two knights off the board in one turn, the hustler quiets down.
By the end of the video, the man realizes his fate and starts asking for the cameras to be turned off.
Only when Ashley officially introduces himself does the man seem to recognize one of the best chess players in the world.
“I was schooled by the best hustlers back in the day!” Ashley wrote in the video caption.
“This was actually in Washington Square Park where the late great Vinnie Livermore used to beat my a-- at that same table!”
kfeldman@nydailynews.com
Washington Square Park chess hustler beaten by grandmaster