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...someone to greet—I was someone engrossed by my music. To Japanese tourists, I was not someone who knew directions around the square—I was just a lazy American bouncing to my funky beat. And best of all, that Spare Change man in front of ABP no longer saw me as a target—he stopped saying “Why hello, sir!” All I had to do was listen to Beyoncé, Christina and Hanson...
...chess 12 hours a day? Sans his usual cap, but wearing an equally distinctive green sweater jacket and long black trenchcoat, Stepak was more than willing to talk. First, he wanted to set the record straight. There is a major fork in the ideologies of the Au Bon Pain (ABP) chess masters—there are those who play chess as a sport, and those who see chess as something far more. Stepak asserts that, unlike the former “chess hustlers,” he himself was a “chess professional...
...trouble. Someone’s going to get hurt, the tourists, they don’t know.” Officer Bonilla agrees, “Yeah, we have had some other complaints about him.” Spending the majority of his days staked out in front of ABP, Stepak has a far more than passing familiarity with the goings on of his corner of Harvard Square...
...business card proudly announces as his address, lends the Square an element all its own. From sun-up to sun-down, and deep into the night, the grizzled warriors of chess can be found plying their trade on the tables in front of the Holyoke Center ABP. Two bucks buys you a game, and unless you’re Kasparov, a brutal beating...
...when the air is still warm and we can walk without coats. The ice cream shops close around midnight, with throngs of Harvard students milling about the thresholds until even later. The crowds of first-years are especially self-evident. Pass under the garish glow of the streetlamps outside ABP, cross Dunster Street, and suddenly one strain of music fades while another emerges. English is drowned out by a plethora of other languages...