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| Mar-06-17 | | ambongtumbong: Happy Birthday GM Maurice |
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| Mar-06-17 | | Doniez: Happy birthday to my favourite chess commentator (along with Yasser and Alejandro and GM Svidler) |
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| Mar-06-17 | | ColeTrane: @ <chess is more> don't be such an idiot. |
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| Mar-06-17 | | Ironmanth: Happy birthday to you, Grandmaster Maurice! Really appreciate your outstanding chess commentary. Keep reaching for the stars in your plans, sir! |
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| Mar-06-17 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Maurice Ashley. |
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| Mar-06-17 | | JimNorCal: I enjoyed the team of Ashley and King in the late, lamented Intel Grand Prix videos.
They made a real attempt to make chess entertaining, pioneers in that field in regards to video. |
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Aug-24-17
 | | tpstar: <trying really hard to bring energy into a game> <make chess entertaining> Agree. He is a key part of the Saint Louis commentary team, helping amateurs follow top level chess in real time. Ashley also handles the post-game interviews which is much harder than it looks. <Steve Skojec> I will pray that you find the strength and guidance to chart out a new and better course, doing a better job of helping people get to Heaven. I'm sure you will succeed at that. |
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| Nov-10-17 | | diagonal: Maurice Ashley at <Pan Pacific 1995 in San Francisco>, the premier big event of his career, playing Korchnoi, Nunn, Hübner, Browne, Christiansen, DeFirmian, Gulko, Tisdall, Waitzkin, and two ladies; funny group shot of most of the participants plus officials: http://www.chessdryad.com/photos/sa... |
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| Nov-10-17 | | diagonal: They still have written a tournament book in 1995, the year when Netscape (the computer services company known for its web browser, Netscape Navigator) made an extremely successful IPO, and Windows 95 was launched by Microsoft; well, the 1995 Pan Pacific chess tournament book from James Eade with annotations by Nick DeFirmian tells: <Organized to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations' charter in San Francisco in 1945, the tournament combined playing strength and diversity in an unprecedented fashion. The roster of stars spanned generations, crossed political and economic boundaries, and included the women's World Champion, Xie Jun, of China, and history's strongest African-American chess player, Maurice Ashley, of New York. Whether young or old, man or woman, communist or capitalist, there was someone for everyone. These champions from the former Soviet Union, China, England, Germany, Norway, Switzerland and the United States vied for supremacy for two grueling weeks. It was only fitting that such a competitive event was ultimately won by the greatest fighter of them all, Viktor Kortchnoi.> |
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Jan-18-20
 | | FSR: Some people call him Maurice 'cause he speaks of the pompatus of love. |
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Jun-13-20
 | | MissScarlett: Early prototype of the Ashley T2000:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a63... |
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| Feb-12-21 | | Poisonpawns: Danny Rensch vs Ashley at foxwoods in 2000 https://youtu.be/-VmOgyV6n6U |
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| Oct-05-21 | | TheBish: For some reason, there are only 3 of the 9 games Ashley played at the 1999 Manhattan Chess Club March International, the tournament where he gained his final GM. One of the games missing is from round 8, the game he won (before losing the last round game) to give him the score needed for a GM norm. I found that game here, in GM Kavalek's Washington Post column: https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch... The game score is:
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 g6 4. Ngf3 Bg7 5. h3 Nf6 6. e5 Ne4 7. Nxe4 dxe4 8. Ng5 c5 9. Bc4 O-O 10. c3 cxd4 11. cxd4 Nc6 12. Be3 Na5 13. Bb3 Nxb3 14. Qxb3 b6 15. Nxe4 Be6 16. Qa3 f5 17. exf6 exf6 18. O-O f5 19. Ng5 Bc4 20. Rfc1 Bd5 21. Bf4 h6 22. Nf3 Bxf3 23. Qxf3 Qxd4 24. Rc7 Rad8 25. Rxa7 g5 26. Be3 Qxb2 27. Rf1 f4 28. Bc1 Qf6 29. Qb3+ Kh8 30. Ba3 Ra8 31. Rd7 Rfd8 32. Be7 1-0 |
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| Oct-07-21 | | Albertan: Chess Grandmaster Maurice Ashley on renewed interest in the game: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/r... |
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| Apr-03-24 | | Petrosianic: So, once and for all, is Ashley the first black grandmaster, or just the first black <American> grandmaster? He's billed both ways, but I could have sworn I remembered hearing that the actual first black Grandmaster was some Scandanavian player whose name I don't remember. |
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Apr-03-24
 | | perfidious: <Petrosianic>, the player you likely have in mind is Pontus Carlsson. |
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| Apr-03-24 | | Petrosianic: Hmm, but according to Wikipedia Carlsson became a GM in 2007, and Ashley in 2000. So is Ashley the first black GM after all? |
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Apr-03-24
 | | beatgiant: <Petrosianic> How do you define "black"? Hamdouchi is dark skinned and from Africa, but you might consider him Arab. He got the GM title in 1994. |
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| Apr-03-24 | | Petrosianic: I don't know, but Ashley is claimed to be the first black GM, I'm just trying to find out to what extent it's true. I guess these days black would be anyone who identified as black. His bio says Hamdouchi won the Arab Championship, so he could definitely be considered Arab (but that doesn't necessarily mean he's not black also). But I'll mention his name next time the topic comes up and see what kind of reaction I get. |
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Apr-03-24
| | beatgiant: <Petrosianic> Bouaziz is another example of an Arab African GM. He got the title in 1993 and I believe he was the first African to do so. |
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Apr-04-24
| | beatgiant: <Petrosianic> We might find earlier examples among Cuban players, such as Roman Hernandez Onna (GM title gained in 1978). The first GM from a sub-Saharan African country is Amon Simutowe (GM title gained in 2009). |
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| Apr-04-24 | | Petrosianic: Well, Ashley became a GM in 2000, so anyone who wants to bust his claim has to beat that. It seems that Ashley is not the first GM of African extraction, but he does seem to be the first African-American GM. Is he the first "black" GM? Erm, that does seem like it could be debatable. He's not the first dark-skinned person of African extraction to be a GM, as the Hamdouchi and Bouaziz examples show. But is he the first "black" GM, as he claims? Maybe he is. I think when people think "black", they think sub-Saharan. I thought there was an example that would clearly disprove it, but I had been thinking of Pontus Carlsson, who came later. Maybe Ashley's claim is reasonable. |
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Apr-04-24
| | beatgiant: <Petrosianic> There's a photo of Hernandez Onna on his chessbase profile here https://players.chessbase.com/en/pl... and it gives every appearance of sub-Saharan African descent. Again, he became a GM over two decades before Ashley. |
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| Apr-04-24 | | Cassandro: <Petrosianic> & <beatgiant> When Hernandez Onna passed away in 2021, the University of Cuban Sports hailed him as being the World's first Black GM. BTW, he played lots of really interesting games. Apart from the "First Black GM" discussion he certainly deserves to be remembered more often. The Chess Drum website had a nice piece about him when he died: https://www.thechessdrum.net/blog/2... |
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| Sep-30-24 | | cameosis: middle name is andrew.
https://www.facebook.com/federation... |
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