Word: chess
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...word children’s book includes an array of Square scenes, from chess players outside Au Bon Pain to diners at Cafe Pamplona to a street performer on Brattle Street...
...first time I tried to interview Steve Stepak, I failed miserably. He was far too deeply involved in a rigorous game of chess to notice a would-be interviewer edging uncomfortably close to the table. Feeling somewhat less than the Barbara Walters (with a dash of street-wise smarts) I’d fashioned myself up to be, I retreated...
...first introduced myself to Steve Stepak cautiously—after all, what do you expect from someone who plays 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...
...speaks, Stepak constantly rearranges the pieces in front of him, playing invisible tetris, deftly sliding them along the chess board he has scotch-taped to the table. He passionately expounds the relationships between chess and the organization of the human mind. It is the educational aspect of chess that Stepak takes most seriously. As I scribble in my notebook he nods approvingly, “Writing things down is important, part of the process of learning is physically writing.” Before he began teaching chess full-time he worked for educational non-profit and volunteer organizations...
There are the chess-players, the guitar-players and the mimes that perform their silent acts by the pit. There are the bands playing while a crowd of Harvard students and locals mesh together. There are the coffee shops, where Pulitzer Prize winners and distinguished professors rub shoulders with the homeless...