Maurice Ashley hates to lose. So when the International Chess Grandmaster found himself in a precarious position during a jovial game of Bughouse last week, he put all jokes aside and focused. The ...

Maurice Ashley, who became the first Black chess grandmaster in 1999, is using the game of chess to teach life lessons. Ashley fell in love with chess as a 14-year-old high school student after ...

Maurice Ashley, who became the first Black chess grandmaster in 1999, is using the game of chess to teach life lessons. Ashley fell in love with chess as a 14-year-old high school student after ...

ST. LOUIS — Maurice Ashley remembers the sounds of the gunshots and the blaring sirens that followed. He was playing chess in a Harlem park, like he did most days, and when he looked up from the board ...

O ne of the beautiful things about chess, martial arts, and Hip-Hop is that at its highest levels, race does seem to fall away. You only see the raw courage, and art in motion. International Grand ...

At 9:00 on a Saturday morning, a room in New York’s Rockland Community College is filled with nearly 100 Black grade school and high school students all attentively watching one man speak. His name is ...

Agood chess match can be hard to find for an international grandmaster, so Maurice Ashley has spent most of his career growing his own competition. Since becoming the first African American to win the ...

It's hard to name something that Maurice Ashley hasn't done in the world of chess. He's played, coached, taught, created tournaments, done play-by-play for tournaments and traveled the world, ...

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At 9:00 on a Saturday morning, a room in New York’s Rockland Community College is filled with nearly 100 Black grade school and high school students all attentively watching one man speak. His name is ...