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...Chessmaster, that’s just what I am. I’m a Life National Master in the U.S. Chess Federation. But that’s too long to fit on the sign or to grab people’s attention...

Author: By Charles F. Pollak, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Square Chessmaster Anything but Pawn | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...earn your own degree with chess, which anyone can do,” he says. “You simply display your ability on the board...

Author: By Charles F. Pollak, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Square Chessmaster Anything but Pawn | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

From his $2 games and giving private lessons, Turnbull says he will earn anywhere from $8,000 to $10,000 a season. He runs his chess table like a business, recently moving away from timed games because, he says, they intimidate potential customers. Instead, he allows his opponent the first three moves. He takes obvious pleasure in his cleverness on the board...

Author: By Charles F. Pollak, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Square Chessmaster Anything but Pawn | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

Turnbull says he started playing chess at age 11 and has been playing ever since—excepting his first two years as a student at Harvard...

Author: By Charles F. Pollak, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Square Chessmaster Anything but Pawn | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...smoked a lot of pot and played a lot of chess,” Turnbull says. He played chess mostly at the Berkeley Student Union for 25 cents a games, earning roughly $5 a day—just enough to eat, he says...

Author: By Charles F. Pollak, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Square Chessmaster Anything but Pawn | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

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