The Gamesters of Thompson St.

Class C player Sal Geraci told me recently that his brother lives on the block in Greenwich Village where there are two chess shops. Sal was referring to Thompson Street, which I visited briefly last December.

A participant in a quad at the Polgar Chess Center needed to have his digital clock repaired. So I wound up driving him and a couple of other players to one of those two shops, where the proprietor Dave fixed the clock for a small fee.