Street Chess

Street Chess

A break for a short chess game in the street while the dog takes a nap.

Street Chess

Playing chess in Havana streets.

Street Chess

Playing blitz games in the park. "How about a game? Three, five, or ten, 5-minute or any time you want." Regardling chess hustlers...try thinking of them as "street artists" and you may get a clearer idea of the range of people involved. Some are homeless. Some are homeless by choice. Some are people who show up to play in the parks two or three days a week, and may have other jobs (other lives) on other days and a fair number are students.

Street Chess

Opening repertoire problems? Recommended reading: An Explosive Chess Opening Repertoire for Black.

Street Chess

Concentration in the park.

Street Chess

"At Stake Was a Little Boy Passed Over by Michael at the Gates of Neverland Ranch." That was the comment from the author of this photo taken from Flickr.com.

Street Chess

A well-established way to prevent Alzheimer's disease.

Street Chess

Check mate! When a player is in check and he cannot make a move, such that after the move, the king is not in check, then he is mated. The player that is mated lost the game, and the player that mated him won the game.

Street Chess

Playing chess by the river bank at late afternoon.

Street Chess

Chess and Checker table set up in Chicago (as indicated by a reader of this blog) and not New York as I initially posted. If they’re playing for food money, it’s no joke, and it's almost sure you are going to loose.

As a curiosity, also Humphrey Bogart, in 1929, after the stock market crash, he hustled chess players for quarters of dolar in New York City parks and for dimes against all comers at Coney Island.

Street Chess

Tompkins Square Park, in the far East Village, New York.

Street Chess

Washington Square Park, in the heart of Greenwich Village, New York.

Street Chess

Chess players in the park (Bucharest, Romania).

Thermal Chess

Playing chess at Széchenyi thermal baths, Budapest, Hungary.

Street Chess

A chess game in Bryant Park, New York.

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