Jim West On Chess: NJKO versus NY Knights

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

NJKO versus NY Knights

In the U.S. Chess League, tonight the New Jersey Knockouts try for their first victory of the season when they square off against the New York Knights, whose name coincidentally is the same as Robert Redford's baseball team in The Natural.

These New York Knights may not have Roy Hobbs in their lineup, but they do have the highest rated player in the USCL, grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura.

"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