Great use of H-M and Magic 3 for characterization

From Love Walked In by Maria de los Santos:

"I sat where I always sat when I wasn't waiting on someone -- on a high stool behind the counter -- and I watched Hayes and Jose play chess. Everyone said they were good players. They themselves said they were. 'Not prodigy good,' said Hayes. 'Not Russian, Deep-freakin'-Blue-playing good. But hell.' Hayes was from Texas and wrote the wine column for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He liked to swear in offbeat ways, liked to walk in, turn a chair around backward with a bang, and straddle it."