From JA-Blogz News Team—  Maurice Ashley was born in St, Andrew Jamaica and attended Wolmer’s high school for boys before migrating to the United States at the age of 12. Though he discovered chess in Jamaica, it was in the United States where he began taking the game more seriously. He would play in parks and clubs throughout New York while attending high school. He became the first African-American International Grandmaster in 1999 when he defeated Adrian Negulescu. The title Grandmaster is … Read entire article »