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Maurice Ashley (born March 6 1966 in St. Andrew Jamaica) is a chess grandmaster author commentator app designer puzzle inventor and motivational speaker. He is currently a Joint Fellow at the Berkman Center at Harvard and the Media Lab at MIT. In the December 2013 rating lists he had a FIDE rating of 2446 and a USCF rating of 2475 at standard chess and 2481 at quick chess. In 2005 he wrote the book Chess for Success relating his experiences and the positive aspects of chess.