Oxymoronic as the whole notion may seem, chess hustlers are one of the pleasures of urban life. I've watched naive amateur players get taken for hard cash by well-masked intellectual killers in Washington Square Park in New York, Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass., and right here in con-loving Chicago, down on Michigan Avenue. Speed chess, aka blitz chess, is the game of choice, and you have to watch your clock very …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune at 04:32PM on April 17, 2012