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Slide Martin, 62 on the streets of Cambridge playing chess. See Masons copy MNCHESS:A homeless former chess champion is laying down the gauntlet to Cambridge University's finest minds and challenging them to try their luck against him.Slide Martin, 62, claims to have only lost six times in his 35 years living on the streets and is unbeaten since arriving in Cambridge four years ago.Slide, named after his parents conceived him in a playground, was a junior chess champion and began challenging passersby as a way to get round begging laws.He plays people for free and skirts round the law by accepting "donations" if he wins.