http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2013/09/17/police-shut-down-chess-games-on-market-street/

Dead Wrong.

This is something that is there every day … for 30 years. What the HELL do the police have to do with CHESS PLAYERS??

Here’s what: any form of open public community is not only not provided and discouraged, it is illegal. And it will now be forcibly dispersed by armed militia.