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“He helped keep me from being frustrated when I lost to some of the better players, ” said Ashley when interviewed by CBB. ” Inspired by Other PioneersĪ key mentor for the young Ashley was Willie Johnson, a friend of a friend who was an Expert level player, one step below the Masters level in the chess world. It was like a light, and I just kept moving in that direction. “Not really having anything to do -that was a big theme in my life. “I grew up like a lot of these kids, playing ball in the streets, listening to hip-hop, “said Ashley in the New Yorker of the children he has taught to love chess. As a teenager he played often with other African Americans in Brooklyn ’s Prospect Park while continuing to study game strategy on his own. He became keenly interested in the game after watching his brother play with his friends, and was soon reading chess books so he could play better. ”Īlso helping Ashley stay on a straight path was his discovery of chess. As Pearson added in the same article, Ashley “had a firm enough grounding to keep himself focused on his studies, even though drug dealers plied their trade nearby. “I didn ’t have the word ‘disadvantaged ’ pummeled into my brain, ” Ashley told Hugh Pearson of the Wall Street Journal. He feels that his early experience saved him from the poor self-image of many blacks born in American inner cities. ” Ashley has also startled traditional chess aficionados and attracted new fans to the game with his rousing commentating of chess matches that make chess seem like a contact sport.Īshley spent the first 12 years of his life in Jamaica before his family to Brooklyn, New York. It ’s when the kids start seeing these paths that they become possibilities in their minds, and then it ’s not a shock to them that Harlem kids can be national chess champions. “And they don ’t see black chess players-no blacks in intellectual fields at all. “For kids, it ’s what they see, ” he said in the New Yorker. Maurice Ashley has helped shatter stereotypes in the 1990s by becoming the top-ranked black chess player in the world, as well as by coaching championship school teams made up mostly of minority children. “Image not available for copyright reasons ”