Jim West On Chess: NJ Players Excel at U.S. Open

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

NJ Players Excel at U.S. Open

Appropriately, the United States Open chess tournament in Cherry Hill was won on tie-break by New Jersey resident GM Boris Gulko with 7 1/2 points.

Other NJ players had plus results as well, including international masters Mikhail Zlotnikov and Dean Ippolito with 7 points.

Chess blogger Atomic Patzer, who lives in New Jersey, tied for first in the Class D section.

"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