that's awesome thanks
GM Ashley plays a Washington Park hustler
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That was great. I wonder what the better hustlers in Washington Park would be rated in USCF or FIDE...
That was cool but likely staged lol
Not the game itself but more the whole 'banter' factor to it is what seems staged.
Feb 17, 2016
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I doubt any of it was staged beyond the players knowing there were several cameras around. Washington Square Park games aren't often quiet.
Feb 18, 2016
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Wow. That is a very cool video. These trash talking street chess players can make chess look bad. This one isn't even the worst since he doesn't use straight up profanity. But when he tried to steal a piece from the board by sleight of hand, that was just wooooooow. That is plain cheating like what card cheats do or those people who have three cups and ask you to guess where the ball is. I heard another word is schoellerer.
reztap wrote:
The notation for 22. cxd4&d3 isn't standardized
It's an en passant capture.
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Feb 18, 2016
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Drawgood wrote:
Wow. That is a very cool video. These trash talking street chess players can make chess look bad. This one isn't even the worst since he doesn't use straight up profanity. But when he tried to steal a piece from the board by sleight of hand, that was just wooooooow. That is plain cheating like what card cheats do or those people who have three cups and ask you to guess where the ball is. I heard another word is schoellerer.
I've seen this kind of cheating in USCF blitz tournaments. A guy once tried to capture my then 8-year old son's rook with a pawn that was directly in front of the rook. He didn't get away with it. However, he then had the nerve to misreport the outcome of the game to the TD. On another occasion, I saw a man move his rook like a knight to try to block a little kid's advancing pawn. The kid complained so the guy took the move back, but he should have been forfeited. The kid was too shy to call the TD over and have the game forfeited (in USCF blitz events, an illegal move loses the game).
The most egregious example of street-level hustling in a tournament I've witnessed was actually in a long time control game. A 70+ year old man was playing a 7-year old boy in the C secion. The boy went to the bathroom. He returned and they resumed play, but after a while the boy noticed something amiss. One of his knights had disappeared off the board! He asked his opponent if he knew what happened to the knight. The man called the TD over and told him that he had "accidentally" removed the boy's knight and put it behind the clock. The TD simply put the knight back on the board and had the game resume from there.
Feb 18, 2016
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Chicken_Monster wrote:
That was great. I wonder what the better hustlers in Washington Park would be rated in USCF or FIDE...
When we were there in July last year the stronger players claimed to be of expert, maybe master strength. Over at Union Square, however, we found an IM playing in what looked like his pajamas.
yyoochess wrote:
The man called the TD over and told him that he had "accidentally" removed the boy's knight and put it behind the clock.
Completely believable, lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxKbs14r1qM&list=PLyypAtJbxVnB3yN3vn9_ebbT6s2xkhGW8
I have seen videos on youtube, and the ones in New York parks seem to have ratings of 1700-2000 USCF/FIDE. Even though these players are beatable, they often trash talk and cheat in order to increase their chances of winning. Some of the hustlers even have a temper and they try to cheat, for example, in the video above one of them pushes the clock off of the table in a time scramble.
Check out that knight steal attempt!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5vnpOp0U_g