'Fish Men' is at its best when chess is front and center by Chris Jones

Oxymoronic as the whole notion may seem, chess hustlers are one of the pleasures of urban life. I've watched naive amateur players get taken for hard cash by well-masked intellectual killers in Washington Square Park in New York, Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass., and right here in con-loving Chicago, down on Michigan Avenue. Speed chess, aka blitz chess, is the game of choice, and you have to watch your clock very …

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