Jim West On Chess: NJ Open Results Plus NJKO

Friday, September 7, 2007

NJ Open Results Plus NJKO

Grandmaster Alexander Stripunsky won the New Jersey Open on Labor Day weekend with 5 points out of 6. Congratulations to Atlantic Chess News editor Steve Ferrero on his first-place tie in the under-1900 section!

On Wednesday night, the New Jersey Knockouts stayed undefeated in week 2 of the United States Chess League by drawing their match against the Tennessee Tempo.

"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