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Maurice Ashley - Reveling in the Ultimate Thinker's Game as a Chess Grandmaster

Season 24 • 11/14/2018

Chess commentator and Grandmaster Maurice Ashley talks about bringing good-natured trash-talking to the game and discusses the value of applying the lessons of chess to life.

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