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ICYMI - Grandmaster Maurice Ashley on Learning Life Lessons from Chess (Rebroadcast)

2020-12-20

Chess commentator and grandmaster Maurice Ashley discusses his love for competitive trash-talking, playing chess in the hood and applying the game's lessons to life. Originally aired November 4, 2019.

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Maurice actually want em to shout beg you thank you. So I should know the answer to this question. But what is a chest? Grandmaster how'd, you become a grand master in chess grim, as is the highest highly. You can have rain, so you have to be other grandmasters topless we're on the world. So now, basically we're just better, but if you, if you be, if you be a grand master, then how come that grimaces LE grandmaster doesn't shouldn't let go down like Highlander TAT thing, no useless, they run must first grandmaster them, though they are the grandmasters back of the nineteen hundred early nineteen hundred nineteen for trying to top layers and what they establish them is grandmasters. Yes, then you know the rest of us come up. You don't use import and brutal time must amuse you basically no level the finishing line
like in mortal combat tackling not exactly what a close you know, a lot of stuff, yeah, yeah apples, apples, chests and all the chess you you got a horse airline actually actually did play chess in school. We had to choose a sport and then there was like options like Rugby, which is Thou version of football and, as I gonna get hurt, and then I chose chess and then- and you know it's interesting as I say that now, but you can't see this in the cameras. But if you look at me like Maurice, his arms, like I've, met a few. Chess player. Recently, you guys have a lot of muscles. Were people who just move a piece of plastic? Iran, not those just peace
heavy man, but this is a real thing, though you you actually have to try and being shaped to play chess while, as this is a true absolutely true when you sitting, therefore five I was playing your concentrating. You need the stamina. You need to be able to focus a kind of time you ve gotta, be in shape and all the top players mangas cross and far beyond our one of the guys we're playing in the world, just as we should bring us their working out three four hour all the time everyday men, these potentially that's mine, going to me because you talk about these people. Some people may know Magnus, as you know, is he's a world celebrity now I mean he p models as well. Does endorsements portion everything you commented on the games. I find your story fascinating. You know, because you come from a world where you go. You don't think that a young black kid is gonna get to chest. The level that you got into right chest was that sport, the maybe so the old guys playing in the hood. It wasn't like something everyone's get into, but you played it. You got good at it and what I like that you, you brought elements of the herd into the way you commentator on chess now,
but was like. Why did you do that an and how did you get in trouble? You? You? Don't commentators like a boring way, though you know it's funny, because when we play chess and improve I'm from Brownsville Brooklyn right now, averting Brownsville was a browser. Was all workers MIKE Tyson was from brown right browser browser wars or of MIKE had to get out of grounds and the people who play chess in the hurt? The brothers were. Usually the cool right now, I'd all geyser baby. Talking to you trash the whole time you're playing and they like memory some hours of my chest, which assists the last night the idea that govern train tracks? Talking all that's, arises you get that in your head, you get used to being distracted by player, lightweight you're playing ages, they cause or now what I do commentary. I do the same thing. I try to be
energy and that flow from the hook. You know it's normal, it's it's it's a game that many people have lauded as the ultimate thinkers game. In all seals of said, you learn chests and you learn how to defeat your enemies in the boardroom. You teach people chest. Tactics in life is not a thing. People just say to make sure some cool, or do you actually think chest can help a person analytically, life. First of all, chess is cool. I agree. I pledge I'm telling you how they just on line Happily chess, you know You trash check on the show before you, Yes, yes, you the way I make jokes about South Africa. I love South Africa. Make jokes, I make jokes about myself. Chest was a good and though I thought it was financed by any Bastille but just as use all the time is metaphorical politics in business and sports mean it's always been.
you're here, you're watching football is like we are, they just substituted a guy and it's like a chest match out right, read, write you always see. That's! Oh! Yes, it's uh! It's a thinking aims strategic game. It's one against one. You ve got to figure out your best ideas and as soon as you figure it out, the other person comin back at you with their best ideas, cries! Oh yes, it's just like business politics, you name it and you you teach kids to play chess. What would you say is the one thing that changes in your mind when you start to learn chess like that you apply life. The other person is more important than you are right because you we get inside our heads, we got our own opinions. This is me, this is my best. Ideas is like Democrats and Republicans talk and across from each other right. But when you play chess, you realize the version as valid points and you ve- got a really get inside their head more than anything else. So it's not my best idea that counts. It's your best idea and how am I going to be you is by really studying what you want and that's that's where the deed strategy comes into the game, that's fascinating, so we need to teach the present How to play chess is what you're saying
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