2/18/2016 – In Washington Square Park, to be precise, where masters set up chess boards and clocks to play people at $5 a game. Traditionally the master trash talks the opponent – deprecation and humiliation are part of the experience. But what if the hustler inadvertently challenges a grandmaster? It was recorded as part of a "Tim Ferriss Experiment” and is a great pleasure to watch.
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Hustling in the park
Washington Square Park is a public facility
in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, a meeting place and center for cultural
activity. One such activity is chess, with outdoor tables installed in the
southwest corner of the park [photo Wiki]
and featured in the films Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) and Fresh (1994).
In the video, which you can watch below, the
chess hustler, unbeknownst to him...
... has challenged a grandmaster, Maurice Ashley
...
... who is probably 600 points above him on
any rating list.
Initially Wilson (the hustler) complains that his opponent is hardly looking
at the board. There is an amusing sequence 2 min 20 sec into the video,
where it looks a bit like Wilson (the hustler) is trying to take two
knights with a pawn – the move is repeated in slow motion. At
around 2:20 min Maurice is starting to talk about mate in 23 moves.
After resigning Wilson (at 4:10 min) asks his
opponent for his name, and is stunned
to hear that it is Maurice Ashley, the well-known grandmaster. Now watch
the video:
“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 ass at the same
table!” Here's the moves of the game for you to replay.
Maurice Ashley is an International Grandmaster well known for his dynamic
brand of chess commentary and effective coaching style. He was a commentator
for the Anand-Kasparov World Championship match as well as all of Kasparov‘s
epic computer matches. He has produced a number of training DVDs for us.
Many
times, when a top player blunders, it is routinely described by the esoteric
term “chess blindness“. In this series What Grandmasters Don‘t See,
chess trainer and worldclass commentator Maurice Ashley strips away
the myth and for the first time explains why the root of these mistakes
is more often based in the psychology of human learning.
In this DVD, the third volume of the three part series, Ashley completes
his idea of Protected Squares from Volume 1, showing that squares seemingly
guarded by pieces are often the breeding ground of amazing tactical oversights.
He also blends the themes from all three volumes to give a thorough picture
of the key ways that the viewer can exploit the typical mistakes by players
of all levels. In the first half of the DVD, Ashley uses brilliant games
and positions to explain each lesson in his dynamic commentary style. The
second half of the DVD is filled with examples to test the viewer, with
a series of exercises of increasing difficulty. The material is drawn both
from classic and from recent games. Video running time: 3 hours 45 min.
Review
by Steven B. Dowd: No matter what your level, this is a fun
product where you will also learn something. And since these really are
things grandmasters don't see, even higher-level players will benefit from
the information as well as the excellent lecturing style of the presenter.
If I could ever afford lessons from a grandmaster, I would pick GM Ashley,
no question. Luckily, I can have him as a teacher for about thirty bucks
with this DVD; let's hope he makes more. My assessment of this DVD: Great
(five out of six stars).
Frederic FriedelEditor-in-Chief emeritus of the ChessBase News page. Studied Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Hamburg and Oxford, graduating with a thesis on speech act theory and moral language. He started a university career but switched to science journalism, producing documentaries for German TV. In 1986 he co-founded ChessBase.
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