ICYMI - Grandmaster Maurice Ashley on Learning Life Lessons from Chess (Rebroadcast)
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
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4.4 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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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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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:02.5 | BAM! |
| 0:04.0 | Please welcome Maurice Ashley. |
| 0:06.5 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:17.0 | Thank you, thank you. |
| 0:18.0 | So I should know the answers to this question, |
| 0:21.0 | but what is a chess grandmaster? |
| 0:24.0 | How do you become a grandmaster in chess? |
| 0:26.0 | A grandmaster is the highest title you can have in the game. |
| 0:28.0 | So you have to beat other grandmasters, top players from around the world. |
| 0:31.0 | So, basically, we're just bad-ass. |
| 0:33.0 | But if you beat a grandmaster, then how come that grandmaster's still a grandmaster? |
| 0:38.0 | Doesn't he go down like High Linda type of thing? |
| 0:41.0 | No, you still stay a grandmaster? |
| 0:43.0 | No, the first grandmaster then. |
| 0:45.0 | They had the grandmasters back in the 1900s, early 1900s, |
| 0:48.0 | 1940s, the top players. |
| 0:50.0 | And once they established them as grandmasters, |
| 0:52.0 | then the rest of us come up, you don't just invert and vertical. |
| 0:54.0 | So grandmaster means you basically know all the finishing moves |
| 0:57.0 | like in Mortal Kombat type thing. |
| 0:59.0 | Not exactly, but... |
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