Grandmaster Maurice Ashley plays NYC trash talker - The Tim Ferriss Experiment

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Published 2016-02-16

I was schooled by the best hustlers back in the day! This was actually in Washington Square Park where the late great Vinnie Livermore used to beat my ass at that same table! (This is a bonus clip from The Tim Ferriss Experiment TV show. Watch the full series here: fourhourworkweek.com/tv/)

All Comments (21)

@subtle0savage 5 years ago

Chess rating: 1880 Trash talk rating: 2588 Double horse taking pawn: off the charts.
@brutalnoodles 4 years ago

This is what smurfing in real life looks like.
@mahirorigami 3 years ago

I aspire to be as calm as the grandmaster.
@saints51 3 years ago

LOL "Are you rated?" "Maurice Ashley, Grand Master." That's better than "Bond. James Bond."
@froggneptune9240 3 years ago

Grandmaster has to be one of the coolest titles to have.
@mxgma989 4 years ago

30% Chess 70% “oH oHoOooOOoHHhhHhHhh OoHHhhHhhooooOh”
@TacoStacks 3 years ago

You can tell he was embarased getting schooled in his own house. I used to walk by these guys all the time
@R-L-I 3 years ago

A lot of NYC chess hustlers use talking and verbal deflections to try and distract from what’s happening on the board but Maurice has played chess hustlers too many times over the years and knows all their tricks (being a grandmaster helps too!)
@1TotalJabroni 4 years ago

His "double knight with pawn" technique was phenomenal. My go-to chess strat has always been the "forearm massacre swipe" where I take out the entire opponent's side with my arm prior to flipping the entire board to go along with a curse-filled rant.
@Ketroc 7 years ago

pawn takes both knights. Best move.
@SwiddyDiddy 3 years ago

He was slick with that double knight take, I wonder how many amateurs he’s gotten with something like that
@duendafrisson8495 3 years ago

“YoU dOn’T eVeN lOoK aT tHe BoArD.”
@kewltony 4 years ago

I tried to play chess with this dude but he offered me pills and took me out of the matrix.
@Jesse-cw5pv 7 years ago

I didn't know Morpheus was so good at chess
@Galezinowski 3 years ago

"Do you think he's in trouble?" "He could be in trouble" "He might be in trouble" "I think he's in trouble"
@ldbboosha 3 years ago

Random guy in the back: "MATE IN 3" Maurice: "Mate in 23" plays 3 moves Random guy in the back still: "MATE IN 3!!"
@CrimzinEclipse2010 4 years ago

Wilson’s Immortal: Pawn takes 2 knights in one move.
@ddoggangstar2 4 years ago

When I was in jail, I played chess for 8 hours a day for a year and a half straight, I got real good at playing chess. Then I went to prison and i ran into a ton of old geezers that always talked a lot of shit when I played chess with them, it was so much fun making them tip over their kings. I can't say that I enjoyed being there in that hell for my bad choices I made in life, but those memories are priceless man, I kinda miss those people. It makes me sit back and realized chess kinda saved my life, cause if it wasn't for chess, I would have gotten myself in trouble, and trouble usually means death or endless PC in prison...
@snookerhands 3 years ago

This guy knew it was over as soon as Maurice moved the clock.
@Leviathan_actual 3 years ago

Maurice: "Hello how are you?" Other guy: "mee mopbloop beep chigaro meep moop"