Jim West On Chess: Favorable Feedback

Monday, March 12, 2007

Favorable Feedback

I have gotten some favorable feedback from my Jim West on Chess blog from Mark Weeks on the Internet.

Also Sree Rao of www.chesshere.com has sent me an e-mail describing my blog as "fantastic" and "interesting".

And I received an e-mail from Eric E. Thomson of http://chessconfessions.blogspot.com saying: "After seeing your website, I tried out the Philidor gambit as Black. I utterly destroyed my opponent on my first game! Intense."

"My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed to thinking of chess as an art, and have never regarded it as anything else, for all the science and sport involved in it. And, moreover, an art which in some ways is closer to music than it is customary to think. Perhaps chess and music are drawn together by laws of harmony and beauty which are difficult to formulate and difficult to grasp, or perhaps by something else." - Vasily Smyslov