The tournament says you have to sit at a certain posture. You can't talk to no smack. It's quiet. Shut up. Baby's back full. How are you gonna do that? Screamful, man. Now watch. Let's go. Chest, close. And it's getting run. So let's go. Welcome to Union Square. When New York's best chess players can be found year round, playing everyone from children to grandmas. We spent the day on the streets with chess player T.C. You see what this life is all about. Hey. Good morning. This is T.C. He's been playing chess in the park for seven years. He's been playing the game since he was seven years old. He's the first one out here and the last to leave, seven days a week. As I know, I opened up my present that Christmas morning and it was a chess set. I'm like the main school. Why did your parents get you a chess set? I have no idea. My mother and my father didn't want to think about chess. A fascinating thing about it is that every time I saw this game, adults had it. Where would you see them playing? In the box. New York City chess players have a long and fable history. They're out here hustling, playing chess every single day and they happen for decades. They've been challenged by grandmasters. They've been featured in Hollywood movies. And they've played hundreds of thousands of people from all around the world. Originally, the best players went to Washington Square Park. But these days, more and more players come here to the Union Square. Street chess is all about speed, trash talk, and if you have a good teacher, learning the game. Before chess, T.C. was working for the parks at park. But on a long vacation, you decided to see what it would be like to play in the park. And you took to the game and the money. 23 days of vacation time. I took those 23 days, mastered up my check. I was in a wrong business. You have made up to $9,000 a month out here? Like, one month, seven, next month, seven for change, next month, nine. He's become known as King of the Square. But there's a whole cast of characters playing alongside him every day. Masterboat, Russian boat, jump. So you're out here on weekends, too? Every day. I do not take a day off unless it's the movie here. Even when it's raining, snowing, you're out here? Good show. And people coming to sit here in the rain and play with you? Yeah, why not? T.C. plays for $5 a game and gives out chess lessons to students of all ages. T.C. stands for teacher's chess because so many people come every single day just to take lessons from him. He's under attack. Still to take him. I've learned because he kept beating me over and over and over and over and over and over again. They made sure you learned something. I'll be aiming at you. It doesn't matter how you die every night. Go out like a Klingon. With honor. The game is not going to be complicated when I teach. I don't make it complicated. If you teach complicated, you're going to make it complicated. That's it. Fun. There are some who say these guys are just hustlers. And maybe some of them are. But if you think T.C. and his buddies are, listen to what he has to say. Try it out. Try it out. You think there's a hustle? Try it out. Just be quiet. It's a skill. Skills up? Come on. You taking chess sounds? Give me a chess player! You taking a shot? We're welcome. Even though T.C. loves chess, what he loves most is passing on his skills to other players. And watching them as they become kings and queens of their own squares. Are you having fun? Are you having fun? Are you having fun? Are you having fun? Are you having fun? I want to see if I can give whatever I have to learn. And a little bit, they take away from me. Keep it. That's them away. I did it. I'm T.C. You want to chess less than I'm down in the U.S. Quake. Rally on! I have so many more questions. I've said that you can put more questions, but I don't want to. This chair is breaking. It's not broken. It is that lane. Let's give it a try.