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Workers at a local Boston auto shop play chess as their daily morning ritual, but when the shop becomes the latest takeover target from gentrification, they each are forced to make new moves to avoid losing the shop and being put into the ultimate checkmate.
"All of us are just pieces on life's square board playing out our individual roles; You got your Pawns, the followers, the rooks or crooks, bishops and knights, and very few Kings or Queens, the independent thinkers, the leaders... And sadly as black men, most times we just pawns playing into their checkmate"
