Jim West On Chess: The Month by Weeks

Thursday, July 19, 2007

The Month by Weeks

In recent days, two of my blog posts have received mention by Mark Weeks in his review of chess blogs from the month of June.

The first was USCF Executive Board Election.

And the second was Michael Goeller Interviews Me. I would like to correct an error. In the interview, I mistakenly told Goeller that Ken Potts was the New Jersey state champion in 1985. According to the NJSCF website, it was actually Orest Popovych. Ken Potts won the title in 1980. My memory is good, but short!

"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