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Conflagration_Planet

Sep 15, 2012

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DENVERHIGH wrote:

I went to NYC on vacation the summer of 2011 and I wanted to go to that park. I probably will never return again. It was not to be even though we passed many times. My wife wasn't up to going there.

Here is a photo of the park.

Here is the photo of it from the Movie

I manage to go to the park where the Manhattan chess club plays daily. Bobby Fischer belonged to this club. They set up small tables and in this downtown park people play at lunch time. Player sit and all other stand and watch.

I wrote a short piece about my vacation and park.

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/chess-in-the-park2

You're not joined at the hip. You should have had her go somewhere else for a couple hours while you went to the park.

Conflagration_Planet

Sep 15, 2012

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#22

frank124c wrote:

JoseO wrote:

I wonder what would happen if these hustlers were themselves hustled where they kept losing game after game after game and not making any money. Do you think if they were the ones losing money that they would eventually look for something else to do with their time?

What would that other thing be?

You don't understand the basic trick of all hustlers, this includes the big gambling casinos as well. The idea is that if you sit down with a chess hustler and you beat him, he will pay off the few dollars you win but then he will refuse to play with you anymore. And none of the other hustlers will play with you either. If you go to a legal gambling casino and you win too much your photo will be taken secretly and you will never again be allowed to return to that casino or any other gambling casino. If you play three card monte or the shell game on the streets and you win, the money will be given to you and you will be followed and at an opportune moment you will be banged on the head and when you wake up in the hospital you will find your wallet missing!

That's not true about casinos unless you're caught cheating. Then you also go to jail. A far as secret photos, everybody is always watched by the "Eyes in the sky."

johnmusacha

Sep 15, 2012

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#23

Yeah whatever bro... I've never been married but not even any of my gf's would tolerate that. Especially if the subjects in question (Denverhigh) are from far-out "peaceful" place like Colorado.

Uh, yeah, hun, I gotta make a run out to Washington Square Park for a few minutes...

Yeah, I can see that going over real well.

Conflagration_Planet

Sep 15, 2012

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#24

johnmusacha wrote:

Yeah whatever bro... I've never been married but not even any of my gf's would tolerate that. Especially if the subjects in question (Denverhigh) are from far-out "peaceful" place like Colorado.

Uh, yeah, hun, I gotta make a run out to Washington Square Park for a few minutes...

Yeah, I can see that going over real well.

Why wouldn't they tolerate that?

mattyf9

Sep 15, 2012

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#25

frank124c wrote:

JoseO wrote:

I wonder what would happen if these hustlers were themselves hustled where they kept losing game after game after game and not making any money. Do you think if they were the ones losing money that they would eventually look for something else to do with their time?

What would that other thing be?

You don't understand the basic trick of all hustlers, this includes the big gambling casinos as well. The idea is that if you sit down with a chess hustler and you beat him, he will pay off the few dollars you win but then he will refuse to play with you anymore. And none of the other hustlers will play with you either. If you go to a legal gambling casino and you win too much your photo will be taken secretly and you will never again be allowed to return to that casino or any other gambling casino. If you play three card monte or the shell game on the streets and you win, the money will be given to you and you will be followed and at an opportune moment you will be banged on the head and when you wake up in the hospital you will find your wallet missing!

Exactly planet. I think this guy watched rainman too many times. lol

RichColorado

Sep 15, 2012

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#26

Conflagration_Planet :

Hi.

She did say, "If you go to that park I will go shopping!"

Hey, that would have cost me a mint.

I am joined to the plastic in my wallet!

Conflagration_Planet

Sep 15, 2012

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#27

To both posts.

johnmusacha

Sep 15, 2012

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#28

Conflagration_Planet wrote:

johnmusacha wrote:

Yeah whatever bro... I've never been married but not even any of my gf's would tolerate that. Especially if the subjects in question (Denverhigh) are from far-out "peaceful" place like Colorado.

Uh, yeah, hun, I gotta make a run out to Washington Square Park for a few minutes...

Yeah, I can see that going over real well.

Why wouldn't they tolerate that?

Well, unless they were expecting you to bring back a dimebag it's just not polite to leave your wife/gf alone in a strange big city. Admittedly its not 1979 and New York is a lot calmer than it used to be, but come on.

Conflagration_Planet

Sep 15, 2012

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#29

If you say so.

dragonair234

Mar 30, 2013

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#30

DENVERHIGH wrote:

I went to NYC on vacation the summer of 2011 and I wanted to go to that park. I probably will never return again. It was not to be, even though we passed it many times. My wife wasn't up to going there. Here is a photo of the park.

Here is the photo of it from the Movie

I did to go to the park where the Manhattan chess club plays daily. Bobby Fischer belonged to this club. They set up small tables and in this downtown park people play at lunch time. Player sit and all other stand and watch.

I wrote a short piece about my vacation and park.

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/chess-in-the-park2

The last photo is beautiful, with the chessboard and leaves :)

Conflagration_Planet

Mar 30, 2013

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#31

Saturday in the park, I think it was the fourth of July!

RichColorado

Jun 5, 2013

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#32

konhidras

Jun 6, 2013

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#33

Those Washington squre park guys are just so allergic to chess players that sounds like filipinos that when challenge they say the seat is taken.

goldendog

Jun 6, 2013

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#34

Conflagration_Planet wrote:

Saturday in the park, I think it was the fourth of July!

No singing in the forums.

PedoneMedio

Jun 6, 2013

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#35

There's another film I watched recently, although it's from 1994, where Washington Sq hustlers are shown.

It's titled "Fresh", and it is a story of a 12 years old pusher, whose bum father is a hustler himself. (It's NOT a movie suitable for kids by any mean.)

A tragic "accident" convinces him to play a sort of real life game of Chess in order to go from...

SPOILER ALERT !!!

...pushed-around-pusher with an addict as a sister to a protected witness, but he kind of blunders one of his friends and in order to win the "game" he sacrifies 5000 of his "I'll have 1 million some day" dollars (correct sacrifice) and his dog (speculative sacrifice at best, incorrect imho: maybe the dog's killing has the symbolic intent to suggest his friend was not blundered but sacrified).

cajuncharlie

Jun 6, 2013

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#36

mattyf9 wrote:

I'm sure somebody here on this website has gone down to Washington square park to play? I know many famous players have played there

There are also local, many times homeless people who okay down there regularly for money. How good are these guys? I was thinking about taking a ride down there one day to check it out. Anybody have any good experiences to share?

i spent a week in DC as a tourist. i spent my afternoons and early evenings playing chess there.

that was back in the late 90s. if you have a chance to go and play there, you should. just hang around and watch a few games and then pick which guys you want to play.

even now this many years later, when someone asks me about my best game ever.....my mind takes me back there, a russian fell into my italian gambit, it was wild, it was wonderful, the crowd was roaring.

yep, go and enjoy my friend!

heister

Jun 6, 2013

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#37

I was travelling to Europe, and had an 8 hour stopover in NYC. Went to the square to play, but didn't want to play for money. So I ended up standing around for two hours watching guys trade $3 games. I finally got one of the players to play me when nobody else was around, and won 5 straight @ 1 min. He might have been hustling me, but it didn't seem like it... I went back to the airport dissapointed and sat around for 4 hours.

#WSPchessisajoke

RichColorado

Jun 6, 2013

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#38

A lot of great comments.

I will look for the movie "FRESH".

I just saw the movie "A Game of Shadows" Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. James Moriarty finally play a game at the end of the movie. It start out as a five minute game with a chess clock that rocks to stop and start the time.

After five minutes time they play the rest of the game verbally without looking at the board. Then the movie ends both fighting and go over the falls in Switzerland. This is the chess clock used.

The time on the clock is set at 12 in the movie, but I never saw the clock time move.

Great movie.

I also went to the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco where I was raised and played the men that cluster playing around the chess tables. I was only 16 and in Lowell High School. Here is the link.

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/i-challenged-the-men-that-play-at-the-golden-gate-park----memoir

PedoneMedio

Jun 6, 2013

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#39

DENVERHIGH wrote:

(...)

I just saw the movie "A Game of Shadows" Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. James Moriarty finally play a game at the end of the movie.

(...)

Did you notice?

In the fight which follows the Chess game, Holmes obtains a draw using a desperado tactic!

I agree, btw: very nice movie.

kalle99

Jun 6, 2013

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#40

By the way. How strong are those hustlers if they would be given an ELO ? IAre they between candidate master and Fide master strenght (the best of them). ? Or higher ? Anyone who has played them and could estimate their strenght.

By the way look at these clips. I love them. So funny. The videos consists of two parts. For money or Love is the title. Two hustlers are fighting in the park in NYC trying their best to "talk down" his oponent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRsXLdCKmvI

"You may say boo booo" !! " Tshu tshu!