Jim West On Chess: Susan Polgar Responds

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Susan Polgar Responds

In a previous blog post, I mentioned allegations by Sam Sloan that Susan Polgar and Paul Truong used electronic means to harass him, thus calling into question Sloan's defeat in the recent USCF executive board election.

At her blog, Susan Polgar has responded.

By the way, I wonder why the Polgar Chess Center's events calendar has not been updated since approximately the same time that Sloan filed his lawsuit. Although October is nearly over, the September schedule still shows on Polgar's website.

"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