Chen's notes on Sid Chessman continued:
Chessman grew up in the shadow of his mother's Las Vegas brothel. From the ages of 5 to 12 he ran errands for its clientele, mostly buying many rolls of paper towels and later beer and cigarettes.
His mother boasted to him that his father was a chessmaster and had made many checkmates. The word "checkmate" was to stick in little Chessman's brain till he was 45 when in the prime of his life he formed his nebulous internet company, "checkmate.com." The second word in his internet company probably came from hearing his mother shouting to her customer's, "Why haven't you come yet?"
At the age of 13, Sid Chessman formed his first non-internet company, "Crime, Inc." Along with his other young cohorts, Sid would study the comings and goings of his more reputable neighbors. Since the temperatures soar up to 3 digits in the summer, many Las Vegans head for cooler parts, thus leaving their homes unattended for weeks at a time. By hook and crook Sid Chessman with his other Crime, Inc. members acquired bicycles, TV sets, watches, jewelry, and even cash in their nightly forays.
In the halcyon days of the early seventies, the shed which stood behind Mother Chessman's brothel swelled with the ill gotten gains of Crime, Inc. But the progress of that shed was soon to be "arrested" by the one lone rat who was to turn in Crime. Inc by squealing to the authorities, none other than Sid Chessman who performed the first checkmate of his criminal career.
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