Maurice Ashley, the world’s first internationally recognized Black chess grandmaster, has taught the game to elementary school children and to celebrities. In a recent video clip that has since gone ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vincent Hubbard plays chess inside a friend's party bus in South L.A. While Hubbard works to break into L.A.'s elite chess spaces ...

For the three men — Frank Ames, Paul Trahan and Lincoln Cyrus — that day last September began an unlikely chain of events ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Losing money from a trash-talking chess (or backgammon!) hustler in Washington Square Park or Union Square is a quintessential New York experience ...

Oxymoronic as the whole notion may seem, chess hustlers are one of the pleasures of urban life. I’ve watched naive amateur players get taken for hard cash by well-masked intellectual killers in ...

The chess hustler took one look and clearly thought this would be easy. I let him get comfortable, play fast, and settle into that confidence before the position started turning against him. By the ...

Almost every day for the last two years, Vincent “VDogg” Hubbard has stood outside the Louisiana Fried Chicken at Manchester and Normandie avenues with a suitcase full of cocoa butter and a traveling ...