NYC Street Chess Player Let's Us Inside His Life
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Street chess players of NYC are iconic.
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They've been in Hollywood films like Searching For Bobby Fischer.
They've played Grandmasters like Magnus Carlsen.
And now, one of these players, TC spent a day with us.
We found out what it's like to play in the park, why he does it, and even how much money he makes per month.
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"Go out like a Klingon. With Honor!"
the best line lol
Great frickin line
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@@michiganjack1337 🖖 Live long and prosper
Today is a good day to die!
Awesome to see someone do something they love
and its sad that you have to mention it
Hustlers act like they're not good at whatever it is they're challenging you on.... These guys are gms in their own right and people know this. No hustle just working.
It's still "Street" chess. You will see aggressive trash talk, tantrums, and yes, even outright cheating. It's everything to gain an edge out there.
I think I found my retirement plan
Hows the retirement plan looking.
Hes right chess isnt complicated .. winning at chess is complicated..!! Learning to play is easy as hell and fun
Street chess is so entertaining...They have now a street chess channel in UK called London street chess.... they have really really nice content too
2:00 and since he lives in NYC he barely made rent each of those months!
1:56 "thanks for letting us know"
- IRS
I like how he laughs right after too
Congrats, takes guts to leave a sure thing and try to make it on your own skill set.
Are these the summer or the winter games? Didn't catch John announcing the event.
RIP to TC. What a nice dude. Never got to meet him.
Where is the hustler that played grandmaster Maurice " You you dont even look at the hoard"
Master Maurice: checkmate
Street hustler: "Cut cut cut cut cut!!"
Since some questioned if he really could made 7000$. He clarified in other videos that sometimes drunk people pay him too much, sometimes rich people pay him too much, sometimes drunk rich people pay him much too much. So yeah he don't always have to win (7000/5=) 1400 games a month to make that kind of money.
awesome that's good intel. Thanks!
It's not only $5 a game ( the game is Blitz and the clock is set on 5 min per player) or $20 a lesson (30 min).
The real money comes from the betting.
He is after all a hustler.
And those bets can be hundreds of dollars per game.
So yes, he wins a lot of money, but as a gambler, he also lose a lot of money.
When they say $5 a game ... is it $5 just to play, or is he betting $5 (ie- if you win, he'll have to pay you)?
$7,000/month is only about $230/day. That's not a lot of money for a long day and with zero benefits.
@@leonardshevlin7260 That’s “only 230$/day”? Do you come from a rich family or something? That’s fucking alot compared to people who work 3 job and still can’t make that much. 3 fucking job. Leonard out here flexing his family fortune and shit
So true.. trash talk is the best part of chess
. Tournament chess is so uptight! So lame. Street chess is crazy exciting!!! My dream is to play chess in one of those New York parks!! Love it so much!!! I'm gonna drive up there one day and play.. I'm good to but not that good.. but I'll play anybody and I'll love it!!! Nobody beats my trash talk!! Nobody
At $5/game playing 7 days/week to earn $9000 he would have to play and win 60 games/day every single day. 5 Wins/hour according to him saying he plays from 7am-7pm. No draws or losses. Unlikely.
They have 5 minutes on the clock, 10 a match, 6 matches/hour. He plays chess fulltime for 7 years. Likley
He said before that rich people will tip him handsomely and drunk people will hook him up too. So he doesn't have to win/play that many games.
He takes 5$ for his time: win, lose, or draw. You see very little outright chess gambling out there these days. People pay him to be entertained and not to gamble. And some pay for lessons. After you loose a few times, he may say - "hey, I will take 20$ to coach your for 30 mins, etc."
There's no specific posture that's required for tournament chess tf you could straight up fall asleep if you want to
He's being hyperbolic lol. Man, you're dense.
Just like that dude said ,,
He beats me over an over an over an over an over again ,,
Hey I learn something ,,
That's my moto ,,I'd rather be beat an learn ,,Than an easy win with no challenge .
Dope video guys! Just found the channel it’s amazing!
Thanks!
Love the video
Im 38yrs old and i never learned how to play chess. I would ask people how to play but nobody ever had the time or patience to teach me. So i just chalk it up to being a bullshit game anyway
i like the vid just get rid of the music you can barely hear them!
So these people make thousands of dollars a month. They're literally chess professionals.
"This chair is breaking"
😂
I would love to learn from this guy. Been trying to figure this game out for years
check out chess.com, they have free lessons and puzzles you can do daily, and you can play against ai at different difficulty levels. It's really helped me improve at the game.
Tessa violet is in the background
Great chess culture, two thumbs up
I just dont get how the editor didnt stop the vídeo at 4:20 .. Like , 2 seconds dude .. What is wrong with you
why would you pay 5 dollars to play him can you win money if you win
What a genuine person.
Does he pay tax on the money he earns like any other worker??
Never knew something like this even existed
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Is it me or is the music really loud?
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Man I hope chess hustling lives well into the future, even if they can be cheating bastards sometimes. There’s a certain romanticism with street chess hustling and TC seems like a great guy to learn from. He obviously has mad skills that would CRUSH any dad-master 7 days a week. As a newbie I would love to be taken under his wing and I hope he lives a long life doing what he loves.
Totally. There's a lot of romanticism to it. The cool thing is, he really is down to teach everyone.
Street hustlers don't beat masters or anyone rated over 2000 most of them are just little 1600-1800 fish who aren't good enough to play in tourneys for cash
@@tinytim8173 Some hustlers are master strength, but a lot of the weaker ones nowadays play for 'donations'...or you win your donation back if you beat them, but they never take a chance on losing money...because they're not good enough players to play for stakes with strangers, a lot of people would take their money....playing for donations is not really 'hustling'
@@tinytim8173 I hate to break it to you - most pro players don't make that much. It's only the upper echelon that are able to live comfortable solely playing professional chess.
@@tinytim8173 1600-1800 is easily good enough to win 99% of the time against casual players.
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Good evening, gents. And a fine Good Friday to you if you observe it. Why is Qe4 better than Be7 here?
The loud music sucks.
music is too loud
Great video and insight. Background music is too loud though. A bit difficult to follow their speech
Good video
he makes that much money per month just playing five dollars per game? He is an absolute beast!
If it's not a hustle why slam the pieces down and talk trash as you start losing.....that's the hint of hustling going on.
RIP KING
Chess is the best ultimate battle game of all nothing is close
cool
He's probably at 1800 to 1900 strength but at the end of the day as long he happy and is able to keep a roof over his head good for him. But I think he exaggerates about the money tho.
Dunno, if he works 12 hours a day, 29 days a month (28-30). 7000-9000 dollar a month is 23$/hour which aint crazy if play the once he beats as much as they want, while never play the once that beats him ever again, things like that. Plus those students that don't losing and makes steady customers. Last but not least he said he didn't made any money one month, so 7000-9000 he probably said as the best/most he have ever made.
if he takes 5$ for 5min. games he makes 60$/h. if he plays 5h/days and only take new years eve off he make roughly 108k/year in theory.
He's 100% Master level. I'm around 1700-1800 rating OTB and know I couldn't do this day in day out. I think internet chess has inflated the numbers...OTB players are stronger than internet players of the same rating.
Bro, he's playing 5 min games in a very busy area of NYC. He's probably playing more than 5 games and hour, has lessons, and people can bet on the games. Most people off the street are beginners and don't even require the full 5 min clock to beat.
He’s playing 5 min chess at $5 per game, if he’s out there 12 hrs a day even if he takes a 2 hr lunch break that’s $600 per day 600 x 30 (average days in a month) = $18,000. Keep in mind he’s not even claiming he’s making that much because obviously that would require back to back to back games etc but he said he’s making around $7000-9000 grand per month doing this so looking at that breakdown I totally believe him sorry. 🤷🏼♂️
lets is a verb
let's is a contraction
Like, you pay 5 dollars to play a game with him? or has the loser to pay 5 dollar to the other? or do you have to pay 5 dollar if you loose but wont get them when you win?
you pay, that how he makes his money
How much is he rated?
Max 1800-1900, as a lot of intermiediate players beat these hustlers
They aren't good enough to play professional chess, so they try to make a living on the streets
Hey what works works
Hes probably the rare or few thats an Expert level (2000-2199) all the Majority other chess hustlers are around 1600- 1999 max or Class B and Class A Max.
@@ym276 I don't know if you know this, but he probably makes more money than the average pro chess player. Chess players don't make much money unless they're ranked above a certain level. He's definitely go enough to be Master of some level.
great video, would LOVE to visit one day!
what would be his rating, sub 18?
high level hustlers area apparently like 2200-2400
No way he makes that much money being under 1800. I'm around 1800 and wouldn't feel confident enough to do that day in day out. He has to be over 2000.
What an amazing people. Thank you for sharing men.
only complaint is that the video wasnt longer
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He's right, they maybe called chess hustlers due to being better then the average player and maybe the trash talking is a battle technique, but in the end, real world chess can not be won without skill, memory and strategy.
The funny thing is,when I was a kid. I thought these guys was homeless. Just trying to get by.I am a sap
@@overlordp.3758 I can imagine though if any of these guys did fall onto tough times, their chess knowledge is a great skill to help them make money anywhere, like you can just pull out a chess board, and I'm sure they'll get a few curious people wanting to learn or play. I wish they had some sort of chess park like this in England, but don't think we have.
@@ShahMahiUddin Very interesting to eat I thought do I have a park like that across the pond.
What is the average strength of these players?
What do you think? 500? 800? They're average people I'm sure.
@@JCW86 Not even close dude this guy is clearly over 2000. He's been playing since he was 7 and you think he's rated around 800? How stupid can you be?
@@sirius9108 I thought he was asking about the opponents the guy was playing. The people random people on the street. I wasn't referring to the subject of the video's rating.
@@JCW86 Ah, well it would be a weird thing to ask what the rating of random New Yorkers would be so that's why I was confused as to who you were referring to.
@@sirius9108 Yeah, I must have misunderstood when he asked about "these players".
you dun luuk at de booad
Just love the game
Sounds like my ex I learned because he kept beating me over and over again...lol
respect
RIP TC Love you :(
Rip?
What if TC rees...Hmmm TCrees
I like how they say that these are the best players in NYC. They top out at 1300 strength max
True. Go to the Village Chess Shop if you want to see some real strength in chess.
My rating is about 1400 and I got stomped a couple times by street players. I also insisted that he move slow so there would be no slight of hand. Some of them are decent
@@billome4921 there around 1600 - 1999 or Class B and Class A players in respective cities which is pretty good with the few top Hustlers being Expert Level .
@@billome4921 TC is probably the few or rare thats in an Expert level (2000-2199)
lol do you seriously think a 1300 rated player could make that much money a month, bro? Are you kidding? To make that kind of money you have to be 2000+. OTB players are stronger than online players.
Money players (in every game) usually exaggerate how much they win, but this guy is exaggerating to a ridiculous degree...no chess player comes close to making $7K+ a month playing in the streets
U never played n the square
There the game is 4 fee not free
Get it..... 4 sides 2 a square
Remember that
If he's playing in Union Square which is a very busy area, you can be sure he's probably playing close to 10 games an hour. He also gives lessons (which cost more than games), and players bet on games. He's for sure making good money. The problem is he probably works long hours and as he said, doesn't take days off.
Do they need permits from the city to take up public space and use it as their own business?
no because those chess boards are stationary, the city put them their like they do basketball courts
Nice
Rating?
Ratings don't matter when you're not playing competitively.
Rest In Peace TC. You were awesome bro
Did something happen to him?
Nothing happened to him. I just met him today, June 17, 2020. Gave me a great lesson. Nice, solid, confident guy!