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Listen: The Blues ProgramPortrait of FAMU professor and checker champ, Marion Tinsley - Tallahassee, Florida
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Collection number N2006-6
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Accompanying note "This is a file photo of 60-year-old Florida A&M University professor of mathematics Marion Tinsley, who has lost only 4 checker games in 30 years and hense dubbed the undisputed king of checkers. The Encyclopedia of Checkers describes him this way: "Marion Tinsley is to checkers what Leonardo da Vinci was to science, what Michelangelo was to art and what Beethoven was to music."
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