Gary Grice, aka the "jizza" - cousin of Wu-Tangers Ol' Dirty Bastard and RZA - worked with DJ Muggs on his new album Grandmasters with song titles such as "Advance Pawns," "Exploitation of Mistakes," "Queens Gambit" and "Smothered Mate." You can see their show this Saturday in Buffalo.

It was something I learned when I was a kid. It was 1975. I was about nine years old I think. My cousin taught me. The pieces were glass, like a lavender-pink, and a yellowish gold. Almost like neon. He taught me. It was the only game I played that night. I never forgot the names of the pieces or how they moved.

I didn't play anymore until 1992. I never played again until 92. I started playing then and that's when the passion came. I started playing with Masta Killa, Jeru the Damaja, Afu- Ra, RZA. It was funny because my whole childhood with RZA, chess was never a part of that. I don't know when he learned. But we were always around one another - all our lives. We played cards, dice, monopoly, checkers - we grew up together. But us playing chess together did not happen until Wu-Tang.

I'd say I'm about 1600 to 2000. On Yahoo! I usually stay in the 1300's. Sometimes I go down to the 1200's because I lose a lot on time. I might be cookin' or go downstairs a make a bowl of cereal. I might be on the phone (laughs). It's not a good thing to be doing [being so distracted when playing]. But it's about one outta fifty that get me. I usually meet my match when I get to the 1600's.

via chessbase.com