S E86: Checkmate! A Grandmaster Breaks Down The Power of Chess

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Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 20 June 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The first chess grandmaster from The Global Majority, Maurice Ashley, talks about how he mastered chess and the lessons learned that changed his life.

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. For many years I was obsessed with teaching myself how to play chess and get my pawn
0:18.8	across the board to become a queen and so when I had an opportunity to sit down and talk with a Grand Master of Chess,
0:25.8	Maurice Ashley, I was super excited.
0:28.3	So coming up next is my interview with Grand Master of Chess, Maurice Ashley,
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1:11.1	And chess requires you to think a couple of three moves ahead
1:16.1	in order to win.
1:17.7	And that's all I'm saying as a people.
1:20.4	We need to start playing chess, not checkers. So I said let me reach out to a grand master
1:26.0	Somebody that actually does know how to play very well and I recall I went in my database and I recall I actually know somebody. The first black
1:35.5	grandmaster of chess in the entire world is right here with us live. Welcome to the show
1:41.5	Mr. Maurice Ashley. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me.
1:46.7	Thanks for being here. My pleasure. So tell me how, you're originally from
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