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🗓️ 30 November 2018
⏱️ 79 minutes
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0:00.0 | 30 seconds. |
0:01.0 | One time for the under down. |
0:04.0 | Ignition sequence star. |
0:07.0 | Let me see you put them up. |
0:09.0 | Reach the skies, let the stars up above because it's one time for the underdog one time for the underdog |
0:17.0 | I'm Patrick made of your host of Aitamin and today our sit down is with Victor |
0:20.6 | Ashkenazi who's an immigrant from Russia, escaped communism, to come to New York, |
0:24.8 | goes to NYU, works at Goldman Sachs for 11 years and one day wakes up and he says, |
0:29.3 | I think I'm going to go be the best backgammon player in US and that's exactly what he does. |
0:34.6 | How are you? |
0:35.6 | Very good, thank you, sir. |
0:36.6 | Nice to meet you. |
0:37.6 | Thanks for coming and visiting us on Valutainment. |
0:39.2 | Thank you. |
0:40.2 | So as we're going and playing the game, maybe we can learn a little bit more about you as well as your |
0:43.7 | background in the game, as well as some of the market things that's going on. |
0:46.4 | So prior to talking about your Goldman Sachs side, talk about the bad gaming game. |
0:51.1 | Like for somebody who doesn't know you know most people say chess we know |
0:53.8 | chess it's a popular game what is the difference between chess and backgammon and what |
0:57.4 | makes this game so special chess was my first childhood game back in Russia you know I |
1:01.5 | play in some junior tournaments and then when I arrived to New York |
1:05.0 | age 25 I actually start playing some chess in the Times Square. It helped me to learn English because I didn't |
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