his position comes from a blitz game that was played between a "Street Hustler" named Wilson, and Grandmaster Maurice Ashley, that has been going viral this week.

 

   In the position on the right it is Black to move. 

 

   Answer below.

  http://www.gq.com/story/grandmaster-maurice-ashley-chess-hustler?mbid=social_facebook

   and got over 2100 comments and over 5000 upvotes on reddit, https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/461hwe/chess_hustler_trash_talks_random_opponent_random/

   And here is the video on Maurice's YouTube Channel, which had over 110,000 views in one day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5vnpOp0U_g

   That's pretty amazing!

   When I was watching the video I saw a guy in the background, and thought "That looks like Tim Ferriss".  Turns out it IS Tim Ferriss, and this whole thing is a bonus clip from The Tim Ferriss Experiment TV show. You can watch the full series here: http://fourhourworkweek.com/tv/  (If you have been reading my stuff for a while, you know I am a big fan of both Maurice Ashley and Tim Ferriss, so I think that is really cool how they were working together on this!)

   The thing I found most interesting is that the "hustler" tries to cheat at one point - knocking a piece, then putting it back on a square where it can be captured by his pawn!  Maurice is very familiar with this kind of skullduggery, and calmly corrects the swindler.  They even have a slow motion of the trick happening!

   I have played in Washington Square Park before, and it is quite a site to see.  The scenes from the movie "Searching for Bobby Fischer" are pretty accurate.

   One funny story - I was in NYC about 15 years ago with my ex-wife Nadya and our friend Sergei that we went to Allegheny College with.  We were all walking back from a bar around 2AM, and we cut through Washington Square Park to get to my friend's apartment.  A guy came up to us and asked if we wanted to buy some drugs.  I was pretty drunk and said, "No, but do you want to play some chess!?"  They guy looked at me and said "Do I look like I have any mother***ing chess pieces?"  lol

 

   Here is the complete game:

[Event "Blitz game"]
[Site "Washington Square Park"]
[Date "2016.02.16"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Wilson, Trash Talking Guy"]
[Black "GM Maurice Ashley"]
[Result "0-1"]

1. b4 e5 2. a3 Nf6 3. Bb2 d6 4. d3 Be7 5. Nd2 O-O 6. Rb1 a5 7. Ngf3 axb4 8.
axb4 Nc6 9. c3 Re8 10. e4 Bg4 11. Be2 Bf8 12. O-O d5 13. h3 Bh5 14. exd5
Nxd5 15. Nh2 Bxe2 16. Qxe2 Nf4 17. Qf3 Qxd3 18. Qxd3 Nxd3 19. Nhf3 Ra2 20.
Bc1 e4 21. Nd4 Nxd4 22. cxd4 Nxc1 23. Rbxc1 Rxd2 24. Rxc7 Rxd4 25. Rxb7
Rxb4 26. Rxb4 Bxb4 27. Rb1 Bc5 28. Rc1 Re5 29. Kf1 f5 30. Ke2 g5 31. g3 Kf7
32. Rb1 Re7 33. Rb5 Rc7 34. Kf1 Ke6 35. Ke2 Kd5 36. Rb1 Ra7 37. Rd1  Bd4
38. Kf1 Ra2 39. f4 exf3 40. Rxd4  Kxd4 0-1

 

   You can play through this game here: http://www.chesspastebin.com/2016/02/16/trashtalkingguy-gmashley-by-noname/

 

   Answer:

   Maurice took out the trash with 22. ...Nxc1 remove the defender 23. Rbxc1 Rxd2 winning a piece.

 

 

   Happy Tactics!

 

   Your Friend,