Jim West On Chess: Garry Kasparov Update

Sunday, May 13, 2007

Garry Kasparov Update

Since retiring from chess in March 2005, Garry Kasparov has maintained his uncompromising style. But now he is a player in the arena of Russian politics.

For his efforts, Kasparov was recently included in Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

"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