12:27 is that John Leguizamo ?!

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Formidable! ❤❤❤

Hipsters on bikes amazing.

Does anyone know what Wall Street spot Sweatpea was referring to at 11:11 and where? Anyone ever go there to play?

Folks need to understand that most of these hustlers didn’t need to be great chess masters or reach a certain level/rating nor did they even want to. So saying things like, “Anand or Magnus could wipe the floor with them” is besides the point. For the hustlers, it wasn’t so much about chess as it was making some easy money. Advancing in chess proficiency was too much work and headache for the average hustler, unless you happen to also be a natural. But who needs that when you have to earn money? Serious players who challenged the hustlers were often intentionally avoided because they stole business away from easier prey. If they knew you were good, they would often decline playing with you until a chump showed up instead to play and get taken in. Sometimes hustlers would grudgingly accept to play with a proficient opponent if business was too slow that day. Arrests sometimes happened if the hustlers sold contraband on the sly - on the side, and perhaps many of them did. They learned all the chess tricks and traps that the average person wasn’t privy to. Was it thievery? No, because their moves were legit (for the most part). All they needed was to be just a little bit better than the average player. That’s all. Add on to that personal charm, the gift of gab, psych tactics, peacocking, and giving lessons to rich kids sporadically when their family was out strolling about around the park. But in the end, Street Chess never pays off. It has no Union, no Job-security and no 401-k pension plan. For many of the players who were already on welfare and food stamps and who weren’t reporting their earnings, chess hustling was easy, extra money in the pocket. When you get to be too old of a chess hustler, you don’t attract as many people as the newer, more flashy, personable, younger and more confident players. So the old dinosaurs disappear and are replaced by new blood, starting the cycle all over again. Another thing, you couldn’t just become a chess hustler at Washington Square Park. There was a pecking order. Certain players had their specific spots that you couldn’t trespass, unless you want to get retribution. It was almost like a mafia, and the players often saw each other as a brotherhood or club and good luck getting your foot in the door! Also…if you didn’t show up to your spot for longer than a few days, your spot was taken by another more virulent chess hustler. This forced you to not take too many days off or you would lose your spot. So once you earned your spot, you had to protect it for dear life, because the chance may not come again. This also meant that oftentimes you had to show up and hustle even though you lost the joy of the game several years before. But money is money.

You have to beat a free game download from "Gametop" called "Grand Master Chess 3", and beat it at "The Easy Adult Level" (nasty London opening not found of YT.), 3 times in a row with different moves for each game, before I can consider you "good" at chess. I don't need no stinking rating. All I have to do is beat that game,---and you will not beat me. :)

Look how a child "lights up" and smiles when he/she figures something out. It leads to real happiness from achievement. It is our nature to figure things out, figure out reality and better our lives. That child is as full of potential as any person who was ever born. Then we send them to state run school to destroy all that potential, which is what the adults here (and everywhere), have already lived through. Is this "living"? I think the child has it right. It a true free society, we would wake up with the excitement, exhilaration and wonder of a child,---every morning of our lives. That folks, is "Living". :)

Shoutout Nashan, he’s a strong player and a good teacher

Beautiful

is that John Leguizamo at 12:27?

Big foot 🤓😂🤗👍⚡️

******* this is one of the coolest most motivational documentaries ever allegedly made with a non smartphone camera*************

Pour moi c'est impossible, impossible qu'on ne puisse pas l'aimer.... ❤️

Who would put a fence around that....... These are the scum that run the world . It's evident

no need to break car

Punk is back!

who's here after CM Punk's AEW debut?

“This has more combinations than all the electrons in the universe...”. These chess hustlers are so full of B.S., it’s delightful!

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Harry is a great speaker 7:30

Lucky are those women who happen to kiss that face

This is awesome !

her voice is too good to be real

I just played against nashan lol

What kind of ranking would these street players have?

The background music is drowning Alex

Imagine if you wake up every morning and see this man in front of you.. 😂 What a living fairytale come true that would be lol

Still goes hard all these years later

She is a gem!!!! Her parents were/are extraordinary and iconic. And so is Charlotte. She has always been magnificent.

I would love to see Paul Morphy play these chumps

Interesting

"I SEE U HAVE BAD INTENTIONS"

Nashan's the best in the park right now, over 2000

Nashan taught me the basics!

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Nice story! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Fuck the standard! Sick place...

"It was difficult for me and it still is , it's difficult for me to look at people , really look at them". Disarming honesty. Thank you Charlotte

Mais é lindo de mais.

I am not attracted by australian men, but Chris Hemsworth is very handsome, talented and charismatic like his brothers Luke and Liam aswell.

Chris Hemsworth and his wife Elsa Pataky are just amazing. A song who always remind me of Chris is Great Southern Land by Icehouse.

Translation: they’re fucking lowlifes and cheaters. They talk shit and intimidate to steal your pieces.

still slaps

Oh my gosh he is perfect... and his feet. too perfect.

Does he really exist?

this is the gayest shit ive ever seen...

Very interesting. But they are just a bunch of hustlers.

11:54

The God of thunder n the God of beauty