Education: City College of New York (B. A. in English, 1993)
Titles: International Grand Master, Director of Chess for Harlem Educational Activities Fund; ChessWise "Dean of Chess"
Media coverage on becoming 1st African-American International Grand Master in history:
Covered by: Time, USA Today, New York Times, World News This Weekend (ABC), Sports Illustrated, London Times, Ebony, Investor's
Business Daily, FOX News at Ten, UPN 9 News, Source, USA Weekend, Reuters TV, New York Daily News, Jet, New York Newsday, Crisis,
Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Post, Emerge, Australian Broadcasting Television, and a host of other papers around the world served by the Associated Press and Reuters.
Appeared on: The Charlie Rose Show, CBS News This Morning, National Public Radio, Today New York (W-NBC), CNN, Bloomberg Radio, Outlook (BBC), American Urban Network, and a number of radio shows around the U.S.
Was also 1st African-American International Master (November 1993) and National Master (1986)
Spokesperson for Intel's/Chess-In-The-School's initiative (1994-1995)
Play-by-play announcer
for chess shows on ESPN and EuroSport (1994-1995)
Commentator for the IBM Kasparov vs. Deep Blue rematch (1997), 1996 Man vs. Machine match (Kasparov vs. Deep Blue), 1995 World Chess
Championship (Kasparov vs. Anand), 1994 and 1995 Professional Chess Association's Grand Prix circuit (Moscow, New York, London, and Paris)
Coach
of the Raging Rooks (J.H.S. 43) of Harlem, winners of the National Junior
High School Championships (1991) ; Coach of the Dark Knights (Mott Hall; also from Harlem), two time National Champions (1994 and 1995) in
the Junior Varsity Division
Designer of award winning chess tutorial for CD-ROM (Maurice Ashley Teaches Chess) by Simon and Schuster and Davidson and Associates (hit stores February 1996)
Dean
of ChessWise University on-line (classic.chesswise.com) since inception in 1997.
Currently planning the opening of the Harlem Chess Center (September 1999)