Jim West On Chess: September Issue of "Chess Life"

Sunday, September 9, 2007

September Issue of "Chess Life"

Yesterday in the mail, I received my September 2007 issue of Chess Life, one of the more readable in recent memory.

There were a couple of articles commemorating the 35th anniversary of Bobby Fischer's world championship victory in 1972. Al Lawrence discusses the Fischer fallout, while Susan Polgar and Paul Truong give highlights of the Spassky-Fischer match.

"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