Monday, January 19, 2015

chinese checkers





Columbus Park
new york city, 2012

 I watched the movie "Searching for Bobby Fischer" on Netflix recently--about a young chess prodigy who gets his start playing against the chess hustlers in Washington Park in New York City--and I remembered these photos I took one December day in New York when a ride on the wrong train took me to Columbus Park which is nestled right up against NYC's Chinatown. Everyone was playing cards or chinese checkers--or some version of checkers and chess as I know---and no one seemed to mind the fact that it was pretty cold outside to be sitting in the park playing games like it was in the middle of summer instead of December....
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  1. electricwaveJanuary 19, 2015 at 12:45 PM

    this is a nice fragment of street life.... very nice post... =) ew

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  2. kwarkitoJanuary 20, 2015 at 12:02 PM

    yes, nice pictures.... I've tried to learn this game "chinese chess"... Too hard..

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  3. pibonJanuary 22, 2015 at 4:08 AM

    Hi b.c. These chess player pictures are wonderful.

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  4. b.c.January 24, 2015 at 11:03 PM

    thank you so much my friends. i am looking for more of these in my files so i can post them...

    :))

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