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Article: Master of the game: Chess whiz Maurice Ashley.(The Enthusiast)
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- Black Enterprise
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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After being crowned the first black International Grand Master of Chessin March 1999 (a title held by roughly 800 other players in the world), Maurice Ashley made history again in January 2003 as the first African American to play for the U.S. Chess Championship since the tournament's inception in 1861. He capitalizes on his illustrious recognition to attract African Americans, and people in general, to One of the world's most popular games of strategy--and up the ante while he's at it. "I want people to think of chess the way they think about tennis and golf," declares Ashley, "with big tournaments and big prizes."
And this 38-year-old native of Jamaica. based ...
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