Jim West On Chess: Kasparov on HBO's "Real Time"

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Kasparov on HBO's "Real Time"

Former world champion Garry Kasparov made an appearance Friday night on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. Although I missed the original broadcast, HBO re-aired the program last night and I watched it.

Earlier in the show, former U.S. senator John Edwards was interviewed by Bill Maher and gave all the politically correct answers. By comparison, Kasparov was frank and candid in his responses, as you can see in this segment.

"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