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 ...

Losing money from a trash-talking chess (or backgammon!) hustler in Washington Square Park or Union Square is a quintessential New York experience, up there with throwing yourself into an overcrowded ...

Maurice Ashley is one of the best chess players in the world. This is what happened when he sat down to play against an über-confident chess player in Washington Square Park in New York City.

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 ...

There’s is something viscerally gratifying about watching a hustler get hustled. It’s part of what makes “Ocean’s 11” and “The Italian Job” so good. In this edition of The Lasso, we bring you a clip ...

In this intense chess match, a chess hustler dishes out tons of trash talk while we battle it out on the board! ♟️🔥 Watch the full game, reactions, and strategies as I navigate the challenges, all ...

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 ...

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 on the westside, his friend uses the bus to spread their love of chess ...