Education
He is sometimes listed as "Dr. Marion Tinsley" because he had a doctorate in mathematics and worked as a professor of mathematics at Florida State University and Florida A&M University. Tinsley once claimed to have spent approximately ten thousand hours studying checkers while in graduate school. Tinsley also served as a Baptist minister.
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