Dupont Circle’s Chess King
From a 2007 Washington Post article, I found this expose on chess hustler Tom Murphy. Throughout the whole article you get a great sense of how much of a hustler he really is, but with, what appears to be, a brilliant chess mind.
The chess instruction aside, the $20 I spent taught me an even more memorable lesson about Murphy: When you are in his company, there is often a second, invisible chess game taking place, one that can easily conclude with Murphy’s rooks advancing on your wallet.