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Street chess is played in several parks, among them Washington Square, Union Square, Bryant Park, and Central Park.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/15/crosswords/chess/want-to-play-some-chess.html |title=Chess in the Park in New York City |date=June 15, 2022 |last=Carmel |first=Julia |work=The New York Times |access-date=August 13, 2022}} Historically, Washington Square Park has been a popular venue for street chess – as Bobby Fischer had played there – though The Villager reported in 2013 that many players had shifted to Union Square Park due to higher foot traffic.{{cite news |last=Hines |first=Lael |title=Chess moves: Most players are now at Union Square |url=http://thevillager.com/2013/08/08/chess-moves-most-players-are-now-at-union-square/ |newspaper=The Villager |date=August 8, 2008 |access-date=August 27, 2015}} Street chess players play fast chess with passers-by for three to five dollars a game, with time controls of five minutes on each side being the most common.{{cite news |last=Roma |first=Giancarlo |title=A Black and White Game: The Chess Players of Union Square |url=https://www.vice.com/read/chess-players-405 |newspaper=Vice |date=December 29, 2014 |access-date=October 15, 2015}} Writer Lauren Snetiker at the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation also documents this migration of the historical Washington Square Park chess scene to Union Square, noting the "dozens of chess players [who] sit on crates and bring their own boards... as there are no permanent ones like there are in Washington Square Park".{{cite web |last=Snetiker |first=Lauren |title=Checkmate!: Street Chess in the Village |url=http://gvshp.org/blog/2015/09/03/checkmate-street-chess-in-the-village/ |website=Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation |date=September 3, 2015 |access-date=October 15, 2015 |ref=snetiker}}

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