Hey, guys, I have this chessboard ahead in front of me here because
I'm gonna be talking about chess. Is a game, a game about chess,
but it's more about life, every aspect of life, business, and
I want to explain to you. So let me start off with the chess
board itself and the chess game. You chess probably as will know. You
always set up the board right to the right, so the white box,
queen, king, bishops, horses, castles, and points. Now,
the queen is always on its own color. A white queen is on the
white box. Black queen is on the black box. The king is right
next to it. These two guys sit on both sides of it. Their
bishops. Then there's horses, there's rooks, which are castles. Now,
a queen could move in any which direction, forward and back, sideways,
all different ways. The king could only move one spot at a time.
The bishop goes on its own color, and diagonally on the angle the horse
goes. It's the only piece that could jump over pieces, so it could
go one, two, three, it lands outside. So I'm not going
to get two in depth with the game itself. But the object of the
game is this team is going to come down and checkmate this team the king.
Now, checkmate his means that if there was a bishop here, that
bishop could kill the king. That's a check. So the object of the
game is to check mate someone that he's dead. He can't get out of
the way, there's nothing that could block him, so a check would be
checkmate. Game over the king is that. Now there's a lot of books
on this game, and you can take the books read them. There's a
lot of people who know how to play this game. Really not a game.
They invented this game hundreds and hundreds of years ago, and they use
this because there's a lot of strategy involved. When someone makes a move.
Let's say I moved the pawn two steps up. He could move one,
or he could move to So he moves there right away. The other side
is thinking two and three moves ahead. Here's what it that thing? He's
going to try and kill my king. So I'm going to analyze his every
move, why he made that move, What is he trying to set up
that would kill my king? Now that strategy. You have to think two
and three moves ahead in this game all the time, and you have to
think what is your opponent thinking why did he move this piece, Why did
he do this? Why did he do that? So you have to get
into that person's head and try to figure out what he's thinking. This is
why his game goes to colleges and universities across the world because this teaches you
strategy. When you could understand this game and you start thinking two or three
moves ahead, well, if you're thinking four moves ahead and you're a chess
genius, Now, how does it relate to your personal life, business and
everything that's involved. When you go into business, things happen. Conversations go
on and people talk about what they're gonna do, what they're going to charge
you, or percentage they're going to give you all of these things. Now,
I'll give you an example. There's a company. This company now is
looking at there in New York. They're looking at land in Montana. So
some of the employees or people who work with them are saying, why are
they looking at land in Montana. They're trying to figure out what the guy
is thinking. State is he thinking about moving this company to Montana? That
would hurt their business or help their business? So they want to think,
what is he thinking. This game teaches you that strategies what are people thinking
when people say something to you and talk to you. It involves this game
because words always mean something. When somebody says something, the tone of their
voice, things that they say, it means something to you. So right
away you want to get into this guy's head. Is he mad? Is
he said? Or a husband and a wife they communicate a lot of times
they can't communicate, but this game helps them communicate. It makes them understand
what the other person is thinking, what makes them happy or sad or mad.
Because you the words that you're paying attention to, you're thinking about them.
Maybe their expression said something to you. So now you're analyzing this person,
whether it's your husband or your wife or your kids, what school they're
going to go to, how they're thinking, what they're thinking about. Maybe
you shouldn't put them in certain colleges or certain schools. This is the most
unbelievable game. I don't know if they made it that way. I know
it's a game of strategy, and I know college is in universities took this
over a long time ago. Now in the Mafia, I used this game.
I got to notice game and understand the game, and when I was
talking to people in other families or sit down a meeting, I always strategize
what is he thinking when he comes to this meeting, what is he like?
How could I satisfy him and satisfy myself at the same time. So
this game gave me the ability to look at someone and analyze what he's thinking.
Now, in the mafia, this is extremely important because when you talk
about killing the king, they might be thinking about killing you. So strategizing
on their thinking, what they're thinking about why they think these things is extremely
important. And I think just has helped me in life, whether it was
in the mafia and in business, in relationships with women, my wife,
my children, what people say to me is very important. Their words are
important. Podcast Alano once said, when you take a going out and you
pointed at someone and pull the trigger, you can't stop that bullet. It
goes to its target and does damage. You can't stop the bullet once you
pull the trigger. Words have the same effect. When someone says something to
you, you can't grab that word back in mid air. You can't stop
it. Like the bullet goes right to the person and it may do damage,
not damage where they will die, but psychological damage. When you learn
this game, you learn to sit back and watch your moves, the game
of chess of life. You watch your words, what you're saying. It's
going to mean something to someone. It's going to mean something in the relationship
that you have. It's a tremendous game, and it's a game of strategy,
thinking, analyzing, watching your moves. Someone makes a move, you
don't just make a move boom right away. You analyze what they're thinking.
You analyze the situation. You analyze what move you're going to make to try
and win this game. To make a rush move so you don't make these
rushes rush decisions in your life. You analyze, listen to the words,
listen to the conversations, and play this game. It's the game of chess,
but it's the game of life. Relationships. Business use this game.
That's why they teach this in colleges and universities. They want to make these
kids think, use their brain. Once you play this game enough, you'll
understand the benefits of strategy thinking. All of that stuff Now, I always
wondered growing up. I learned that as a kid. My older brother in
law showed me the game. I played it for a while. I played
it when I was in prison, and it helped me strategize everything in my
life. I think I owe it to this game. It's not a game.
A game is monopoly, check is you could do a lot of things.
When I had trouble, went John Gotti in prison and I said this
many times, and I think a lot of people know the story. The
FBI knows the story. He was looking at, dumped the case in my
lap. I would do the time for him to go free. The problem
is I saw what he was doing, almost like a chess game. Peter
Moss, who wrote my book The Underbuss, wrote a story and said something
once. He said, John Gotti was playing Checkers while Sammy was playing chess.
There's no match. Checkers is a game. This is not a game.
What I was playing was not a game. It was strategy moves,
seeing what he was doing, exactly what he was doing, why he was
going to do it. Not only did I see it, I started to
analyze he was going to come to kill me. I was the king.
So now I was analyzing this game. I saw his moves that were allowed
and clear. So my game now became how do I kill him? How
do I check made him? When he finally told me that I would be
going to prison, I would take the weight all this crap. I don't
really want to get too deep into it, but I said, is that
what you want to do? I already knew he wanted to do that.
He said yes. I said, okay, let's do it. On my
way out, I said, checkmate. My checkmate was adios, motherfucker.
I'm switching sides and I'm going with the government. You stay here and you'll
see what that word checkmate means. So I was playing chess while John was
playing checkers. I think Peter Moss was right. He got checkmated. And
I owe it to this game to analyze things, analyze if I think this
could save a lot of marriages. People understand one another better, and hopefully
it could save marriages. Maybe it'll break them up sooner, maybe you'll see
you won't make that mistake and be married. You could analyze what a person
is way before you say I do, and understand what's going to happen.
So it's not going to sound like a marriage counselor. But I'm talking about
this game. It's a great, great game. It's a mind game.
It's not a game, it's developing your mind. Tune an extreme on analyzing
so many things. I have an eighth grade education. I didn't go to
college universities, but I did play chess. I did play chess, and
I played chess with a lot of guys who graduated a lot of big colleges
and universities. And one time I wanted to play my wife's uncle. It
was a banking executive and at a holiday we went there and I saw a
chessboard and I said, oh, you played chess. Oh yeah, So
I said, maybe we could play again. It was a joke. I
was going to play Uncle Joe on a chess board. Sky's brilliant, all
kinds of colleges, all kinds of degrees. He's the head banking executive.
So I said I'd probably lose, but I let's just play it, just
kidding around. I beat him two games. He wanted to commit suicide.
I think he was embarrassed. They will all stop laughing while I was laughing,
especially when I said checkmate. So it is a great game. If
you ever want to play it, play it. Somebody got in touch with
me just recently, it said, Sammy, I know you played chess.
I could develop a chess game that's on computers or whatever and have the different
families and you as the dawn and the other side of the two families of
fighting. I said, I never, I never thought of that. It
sounds very very interesting. I don't know, but I would love to talk
to you about it. And I'm actually thinking about it because when you play
this game, you get stuck on this game playing and if they said,
well, I'm tired, I don't even want to play anymore, but you're
going to realize that this how many benefits this game gives you. This is
a degree. I wish that in colleges and universities. They said, he
graduated with honors English math history and he has two three years of a degree
of playing chess. Now, if they ever did that, that's the guy
I want to hire. I want this guy to work for me, and
I know he's going to be great. So that's my chess story, and
it's a story of life. And all you guys who do play chess out
there, and women who play chess out there, I know you're gonna love
this because you know it. You know exactly what I'm talking about, and
so at this point, I think I'm going to give my normal kodbye.
It's a lot of you Spanish speaking people Adios. Motherfucker's