Jim West On Chess: Exhuming the Body

Monday, June 18, 2007

Exhuming the Body

At his The Chess Coroner blog, John Moldovan gives his own analysis of Moldovan-Salisbury, Newark NJ 10/25/1987 which I featured in a previous post. Moldovan mentions that I do not provide pgn files for my readers at my Jim West On Chess blog. This is true. But I do have pgn files at my Jim West Talks Chess blog.

"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